In my last youth position, I did a monthly segment called “Late Night with Jason,” which was essentially a rip-off of Conan O’Brien’s late-night talk show. I owe 100 percent of the succe...

Cook Communications Ministries, 2005,253 pp., $12.99, www.cookministries.comThis book takes on a crucial issue, the sex-saturated nature of mass media, without going to excesses or resorting to scare tactics li...

Technology is cool. Really cool. And rightly so. Technology has been here since the beginning. According to Genesis, the only thing older than technology is the Godhead itself.Think about it. Creation is the si...

Nelson, 2006, 220 pp., $16.99,www.thomasnelson.comAt first, this was a difficult read. It was a little too predictable and full of clichés for my taste. I also found it to be a bit choppy. But I chose not ...

Group, 2005, 143 pp., $16.99,www.group.comWhy another game book when there are several free youth ministry Web sites with hundreds of games on them (albeit, most non-FDA approved)? Because not all youth leaders...

Westminster/John Knox, 2005, 205 pp.,$19.95, www.wjkbooks.comIn this book Dykstra argues that the church still has much to say to the contemporary issues of the world and challenges Christian educators (that...

InterVarsity, 2005, 229 pp., $17.00,www.ivpress.comIf you don’t regularly ingest material translating youth culture or look at the author’s Web site, CPYU (www.cpyu.com), add Engaging to your “...

Alpha/Penguin, 2005, 310 pp., $18.99,www.idiotsguide.comWho were the Gnostics and what did they really believe? In this fast-paced world, it’s hard to find time to research answers, let alone the origins ...

During the burial of Jesus, something unusual happened that’s taught me a lot about following Jesus — an underrated gesture from an “outsider” named Nicodemus. You know Nicodemus from the fa...

Nelson, 2006, 381 pp., $13.99,www.thomasnelson.comIt is hard to find the right tools or places that truly relate to and help the person going through divorce. This tool offers the reader knowledge that healing ...