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Genuine, lasting life-change is the heartbeat of youth ministry ... but too few students experience it. Through a simple but revolutionary process of "mentoring a few," dramatic transformation can happen in the lives of students---with benefits that spread throughout the ministry.

A book to equip parents with proven principles to have life-changing discussions with their kids about how Jesus changes lives, to explain the plan of salvation, and to lead a child in prayer to begin a relationship with Christ.

This book offers practical advice to teens, distilling the wisdom of the Bible and many experienced and anointed counselors.

The stories of 14 outstanding Christians, from the 14th through the 20th centuries, who by words and deeds set an example for Christians today to follow.

Offers an easy-to-grasp exploration of today's changing culture and gives insight into the kind of churches that are emerging in its midst. This book goes beyond just theory and gets into very practical ways of assisting you in your local church circumstances. It includes samples and photos of emerging church worship gatherings.

After raising the common issues that face and sometimes haunt an individual at the mid-point of her or his life, Patrick Morley offers practical ideas to make peace with the changes and to point the way to a deeper, lasting joy. Formerly titled Second Wind for the Second Half.

An invitation to look at people outside of the church, not with condemnation or negative stereotypes, but with compassion to understand that feminists, postmodernists, homosexuals, liberals, and new agers are not enemies to avoid.

Describes how we spend most of our lives striving to grab what God is patiently waiting to give us.

This book contains 31 small group meetings that have been revised and updated from the field tested, Youth for Christ resource Honest to God. Guide them through discussions on how to face life's tensions, self-esteem, clarifying future goals, friends, family, sexuality, forgiveness, and more!

A book that helps parents understand the unique challenges and corresponding opportunities of parenting sons, you'll find within its pages advice on everything from recognizing the dramatic differences between boys and girls to the specific ways parents can cultivate their son's heart for God.

This six-session study will help you begin to dig deeply into a treasure house of God's wisdom and truth.

Teaching Like Jesus is a handbook for Christian education in local churches that applies Jesus' methods to make the Bible culturally relevant for today.

As part of the Pursuing Spiritual Transformation series, Giving demonstrates how good stewardship is more than a responsibility-it's an adventure.

The NIV Application Commentary helps readers with the vital task of bringing the ancient message of the Bible into a contemporary context. It gives preachers and teachers the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

This title introduces the Star-Fighters of Murphy Street: three unlikely young heroes bound for some zany escapades. Add one spaceship-shaped tree house capable of taking them almost anywhere in the universe, and the result is a quirky, funny, fast-paced new trilogy.

Purpose Driven Youth Ministry by Doug Fields presents foundational principles of youth ministry that help you develop the ministry that best meets the needs of the teenagers in your unique setting. For over a decade it has helped youth workers around the world build ministries that equip students rather than coordinate events.

The sequel to Cymbala's best-selling Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire and Fresh Faith reveals what it means to be constantly transformed by the Holy Spirit. Dramatic stories from the Bible and the life of the Brooklyn Tabernacle fill each page. This softcover edition includes a study guide.

As part of the Pursuing Spiritual Transformation series, Growth sets you on a path to live out the character of Jesus in this world as only you can.

The NIV Application Commentary helps readers with the vital task of bringing the ancient message of the Bible into a contemporary context. It gives preachers and teachers the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

This collection of forty poems is designed to provide a new and moving expression of worship. The poems are intended not to be merely read in silence, but to be spoken aloud in a way that can provide a new and refreshing experience of worship in any setting---personal devotions, group and church settings, or one-on-one.

As part of The Pursuing Spiritual Transformation series, Gifts guides you to the answers you desire, through personal study and small group interaction, to develop a hunger to be used by God.

In this small group study, award-winning author Jim Cymbala shows what the Holy Spirit can do when believers get serious about prayer and the Gospel. Cymbala tells how God moves in life-changing ways when we set aside our own agendas, take him at his Word, and listen for his voice. The DVD curriculum and leader's guide are available separately.

Using games as a metaphor for life, this six-session small group Bible study, When the Game is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box, by John Ortberg, neatly sorts out what's fleeting and what's permanent in God's kingdom.

The NIV Application Commentary helps readers with the vital task of bringing the ancient message of the Bible into a contemporary context. It gives preachers and teachers the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

As part of the Pursuing Spiritual Transformation series, Fully Devoted gets to the heart of what it means to be a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ.

The NIV Application Commentary helps readers with the vital task of bringing the ancient message of the Bible into a contemporary context. It gives preachers and teachers the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

Community is a fundamental life search. We need to belong. In our time, we search with some increasing desperation as terms like neighbor, family, and congregation are being redefined.

The NIV Application Commentary helps readers with the vital task of bringing the ancient message of the Bible into a contemporary context. It gives preachers and teachers the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.