For youth workers who love teaching and want to be more effective, a quality multi-year curriculum is the most powerful and best-kept secret in youth work. Discover it, create it, live it and enjoy it for years to come.

If we aren’t careful the pace of student ministry can crowd out the most crucial partners that we need for effective ministry to students. Here's a list of the essential partnerships you need to have at your church.

Guess what...I survived another summer in student ministry! And here's better news: YOU DID TOO!

Disorienting. That is the most accurate word to describe the experience of working in a local church without a Senior or Lead Pastor in place.  I have experienced it three different times in my career.  Ri...

Confession: I was that kid in elementary school who told crude jokes. It was my thing. Confession: The number of grandparents who compliment me on my stage presence and teaching style is disturbing. Confessio...

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Danny Kwon The Youth Cartel, 2015, 149 pp., $14.99 In this latest work from Danny Kwon, youth workers will find a friend in the words written as the author shares his journey through the gains and pains of ...

Amanda Hontz Drury InterVarsity Press, 2015, 208 pp., $22 Saying Is Believing starts with an intriguing title and delivers on all fronts to be a fresh, new voice in the field of youth ministry. With an ar...

Jarrid Wilson Thomas Nelson, 2015, 179 pp., $16.99 Jarrid Wilson's Jesus Swagger has some perceptive and fervent pleas to stir status quo Christianity. The genuine heart for a purer, more Christ-centered fa...

Brian Housman Randall House Publishing, 2014, 152 pp., $17.99 Every parent wonders when to allow certain technology with their children while also trying to manage all the digital noise that bombards them...