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This new series from Youth Specialties will help you take your junior highers through the basics of life, from Jesus to friends to prayer. Discipleship books for junior highers that aren't deadly!

Youth ministry regularly calls for moments where the "short talk" is the perfect solution. No three points and a poem, no long fancy outlines, just a ten minute talk that tells one point loud and clear through a powerful story. When you've only got ten minutes to make your point, give em' something that they'll remember.

This new series from Youth Specialties will help you take your junior highers through the basics of life, from Jesus to friends to prayer. Discipleship books for junior highers that aren't deadly!

Everything is changing---including the way your family interacts. This book will give you secrets and tips to help make your family even better and survive the changes that come along with middle school.

One of the primary ways God wants to bring his presence into this world is through our homes. In Organic Outreach for Families, husband-and-wife team Kevin and Sherry Harney explore the ways every Christian home can become a lighthouse to their community, shining the light of God's grace and love among their neighbors, friends, and extended family.

A practical guide to help worship team members spiritually prepare for worship by providing practical advice with each chapter which addresses a key issue church artists face and gives slice-of-life scenarios, group discussion questions, applications questions, biblical perspective, and personal action steps.

What's The Deal with . . . ? gives youth workers an invaluable tool for opening up conversation with students about today's biggest theological questions.

Gimme Five is the tool to have when you want to get your group talking on a ministry night, retreat, road trip, in their small groups, or at your home. These provocative and charming lists will get kids talking, laughing, debating, and thinking anytime, anywhere. A great tool for volunteer youth workers who need something to get conversation going!

The heart was there, the vision was set, the motives were genuine . . . but no one showed up. The book will help youth workers program to an audience that they're not used to reaching. Programming an outreach event is much more than booking a band and a speaker. Unfortunately, most people don't know that---and the students they wanted to reach aren't making it there . . . they don't show up.

Couples regularly name "improved communication" as the greatest need in their relationships. Love Talk is a deep yet simple plan full of insights that will revolutionize communication in relationships. This workbook for men is full of exercises and self-tests that help you apply what you are learning about communication to your relationship.

An edgy, biblical look at topics the church has been silent about. This book provides honest, authentic answers to questions that most men and women have asked in their own minds.

Small Group Strategies lays out a strategic approach to small group meetings, and shows you how to personally and effectively nurture your students toward spiritual growth by giving direction to every idea and activity you use. It provides you with ideas to help students encounter Jesus and live out their faith at every level of spiritual growth.

This uniquely designed resource for those left behind after a suicide provides encouraging, practical help and hope. It includes features designed for SOS support groups, pastors, Christian counselors, and church leaders with the goal of helping the church function more fully as the healing community it could be for survivors of suicide.

We live in the age of aging. Because of this, there are a number of challenges presented to the family---among the most complex is the job of caring for frail parents. Weaving practical help together with personal stories, this book will help people embrace the job of caregiving as an opportunity to learn more about life and God.

A young woman with a mysterious past and a deep need to belong. An assassin with unusual methods and great professional pride. One woman's secrets unleash an entire town's pursuit, and the truth proves as elusive as the killer in their midst.

With questions about the future lurking in most teenage minds, now is the time for this youth curriculum to come along. The author explores the book of Revelation, a glimpse into what is to come, and truth that can bring ease to troubled hearts.

Mom's Ordinary Day Bible Study Series, is comprised of 8 volumes specifically designed to help a mom find wisdom from God's Word as she seeks to be the best mom, person, and disciple she can be. They cover the topics of prayer, self identity, friendship, spiritual development, encouragement, time management, guilt-free mothering, and confidence.

This book offers practical strategies for finding an education that fits the child instead of insisting that a precious and uniquely designed child must always adjust to the education provided.

Six sessions. Discussion guides designed to help people from a variety of spiritual backgrounds discover the powerful life and teaching of Jesus in the context of small group. Jesus' Greatest Moments: Uncover the facts and meaning of the provocative events that make up the final week of Jesus.

Six sessions. Discussion guides designed to help people from a variety of spiritual backgrounds discover the powerful life and teaching of Jesus in the context of small group. Winning at Life: Will reveal the secrets Jesus taught his disciples about winning at life through the stories he told.

Author Patrick Morley challenges men to get beyond the surface happiness for which they daily give their lives to find instead a success that really matters -- a success paradoxically rooted in a life of unselfish love, suffering, and sacrifice.

Gary Smalley has revised this book to demonstrate how the secret of a fulfilling marriage lies in the spiritual condition of each spouse.

This is a ground-breaking work by Pastor Doug Banister about why and how the walls between evangelicals and charismatics can come down in the setting of a 'Word and Power' church, and a blueprint for making it happen.

God Is Searching for Churches to Bless---not a church that has it all together or one that never makes mistakes or one that rarely encounters problems, but a church that daily experiences God's empowering presence

Contains more than 700 phrases to jump-start teenagers to talk and think about their favorites.

This practical guide enables church deacons, trustees, and other lay and ordained leaders to evaluate the current security status of their church to encourage improved protection of buildings and people.

A year of daily devotions comprised of great writings on prayer, practical reflections on applying prayer principles to daily life, and actual prayer exercises to revitalize intimate conversation with God.

The next volume in the best-selling Ideas Library, this is a collection of 54 of the newest, most creative, youth-group-tested dramas, skits and sketches ever imagined!