Books
Shaped By The Story
Since you’re new here, you may want to take an extra minute to subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One of the great challenges in youth ministry is in helping students to truly engage with Scripture, to immerse themselves in the Story of God and to work through how their own life story [...]
Youth Ministry 3.0
My initial reaction after reading Youth Ministry 3.0: “Oh crap!”
Yes, that’s the truth because Marko (Mark Oestreicher, President of Youth Specialties) crystallized a general unrest that I had been feeling with my youth ministry over the past couple years.
Mark takes some time before getting into the guts of youth ministry 3.0 because it is important for [...]
How Would Jesus Vote?
First off, I really have to apologize again for my lack of posting & for the last bunch of posts being all on books. This isn’t a book blog but books are a part of my life and I have had a lack of inspiration on what else to post about. Although, Sarah did give [...]
Jesus Wants To Save Christians
I’ll get my negative point about this book out of the way right out of the chute, the writing style can be a little wearing. Every chapter is filled with short choppy sentences that do double duty as paragraphs, very much along the lines of many of Rob Bell’s sermons.
With the negetive out of [...]
Follow Me (Reveal)
Follow Me by Greg Hawkins and Cally Parkinson is the latest installment from the folks behind the Reveal study, Willowcreek Community Church.
The main thrust of this book is in communicating the main catalysts in peoples spiritual growth and movement from one segment to the next on the continuum (which was introduced in Reveal):
Exploring Christ
Growing in Christ
Close [...]
For Young Men Only
I had the opportunity to check out the latest installment of the “Only” series from Jeff & Shaunti Feldhahn, For Young Men Only & I have copies to give away to two faithful followers of this blog since I haven’t updated in like 2.5 weeks!
Here is what the back cover says:
Okay, the authors aren’t girls. But [...]
The Sacred Echo
Margaret Feinberg is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!
She writes with the same friendly “voice” as in The Organic God and it is an absolute pleasure to read.
Throughout The Sacred Echo, Feinberg relays a few very personal encounters and experiences in an effort to connect to the deep places in the readers life, so [...]
And The Winner Is!
It was a tough decision that my wife, Sarah, had to make on who was going to win the pre-release copy of Wild Goose Chase but she made that decision this morning. So without further delay… The winner was Awizabef!
(Sarah with the winning post!)
You can read the winning post on her blog, My College [...]
Wild Goose Chase
Just finished with Mark Batterson’s latest book, Wild Goose Chase! I have to strongly suggest that you get your hands on this book and read it! The book is being released on Tuesday, Aug. 19 so make sure you order it now so you can get it before the first printing sells out.
The first observation [...]
unChristian
I decided to pick up unChristian because a youth ministry friend of mine is having Gabe Lyons come to speak at a youth ministry event this Fall and he invited me to bring a few students out to it. I thought it might be worthwhile to actually read the book since I had it on [...]
