Renovatus Ren-o-vâ´-tus the state of having been restored, refreshed, revived, renewed, or renovated [pp. of renovare; re-, again, and novare, to make new, from novus, new]. Youth ministry keeps you yo...

REACH OUT AND “TECH” SOMEONE.In keeping with my unshakable (at least unshakable in this author’s mind) thesis that technology affords us lovers-of-kidsand- God the opportunity to impact the li...

Multnomah, 2005, 176 pp., $12.99,www.multnomahbooks.comDrawing on his extensive speaking at youth events throughout the country, and with the help of his father, Josh Weidmann identifies eight specific things c...

Youth Specialties/Zondervan, 2005,291 pp., $24.99, www.youthspecialties.comEvery youth worker, whether paid or volunteer, should have this book. Van Pelt and Hancock systematically work through all the differen...

(Truth Quest 120 A / Truth Quest 120 B / Truth Quest 120 C - 3 vols.)Broadman & Holman, 150 pp., $9.99 each,www.broadmanholman.comSince these are devotions for teens, I gave the three books to actual teens ...

(foreword by Jeremy Camp)Revell, 2005, 192 pp., $12.99,www.revellbooks.comOh, no, was this gonna be another tradition-bashing book in which the author laments all that was lost in the land of lifeless liturgy? ...

Multanomah, 2005,191 pp., $12.99,www.multanomahbooks.comI had high expectations for this book because the author pastors the Imago Dei community in Portland, where Donald Miller (author of the phenomenal Blue L...

When Brandon arrived on campus with a full-ride scholarship, he made the top 10 of the smartest freshmen I’d ever met. Take my SAT scores, multiply them by two, and my score would be lower than his f...

“Our nature imposes on us a certain pattern ofdevelopment which we must follow if we are tofulfill our best capacities: We must know thetruth, and we must love the truth we know,and we must act according ...

Relevant Books, 2005, 150 pp., $12.99,www.relevantbooks.comBurning Desire caught me off guard. I found myself thinking about many things I had read in the Bible in a new light — which I absolutely loved....