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How are you equipping parents to minister to their teenagers?

June 17, 2013 Resources
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Last summer, I helped Jeremy Lee build a new resource called Parentministry.net. It wasn’t my idea. It wasn’t my content. I just helped him build the first version of the website and help him get it off the ground. (I start things, it’s my favorite.) What is it? Simply put… PM.net provides you with baseline [...]

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Leading Up for Kindle just $1.99

June 4, 2013 Resources
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  This morning we saw that Amazon changed the price of Joel Mayward’s book, Leading Up, to $1.99. It’s a limited time thing so if you’ve wanted to check out the book, now is your chance to do it for less than the price of a cup of coffee.  

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Who Will Save Us Now? A Theological Reflection of “The Avengers”

January 11, 2013 Resources

Black Widow: “Wait. You might wanna sit this one out, Cap. These guys are basically gods.” Captain America: “There’s only one God, ma’am. And I don’t think he dresses like that.” So goes the brief exchange immediately prior to Captain America’s leap from an airplane to engage Thor, Loki, and Iron Man in another gripping [...]

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Early Reviews of Masterpiece

December 9, 2012 Resources

Masterpiece, by Paul Martin, is now shipping. The Youth Cartel and our distributors fulfilled orders from all over the country. Here’s a few reviews that have been posted on Amazon and the iTunes iBookstore. The Relationship of Art by Brooke Wilson on Amazon Paul Martin brings to the surface the true art of getting to the [...]

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Wrong Way, Parker

August 31, 2012 Resources

You’ve got to feel for Andre Parker. I mean, he got excited and just ran the wrong way. Since it isn’t on YouTube, I can’t really use it for an official YouTube You Can Use. But here’s how I’d use it if I were going to. Video: Andre Parker Runs the Wrong Way Topic: Mistakes, [...]

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Sticky Faith Turns One!

August 8, 2012 Resources
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I’ve long been excited about Sticky Faith from the Fuller Youth Institute. Last Fall, I even headed up an online book club for parents in youth ministry. Together, we read the book and discussed its implications on our individual ministries & our own families. One thing that’s been great about Sticky Faith is that Kara [...]

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2 New Books Available in our Store

August 6, 2012 Resources

We just added two brand new books to our bookstore and they are available for purchase immediately. Each is available in a print & digital edition.  A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Teenage Girls by Marko & Brooklyn Lindsey – $6.99 Change is an inevitable part of life. So why are most of us parents shocked and [...]

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A Quick Blue Like Jazz review

April 13, 2012 Resources
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I’m no avid moviegoer. In fact, with small kids at home and no regular babysitter it’s a rarity that we head to a theater to watch a movie. A date night in my house typically consists of renting a movie on iTunes. So, for me, going to the theater this afternoon to see Blue Like [...]

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Youth room technology poll

March 24, 2012 Resources
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  We are in the process of putting together some resources for your youth ministry. And as we are developing that stuff it helps us to know just how common some things are. In this case, we need to know how much we can depend on video content. Our assumption is that in most cases [...]

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LGBT Bullying Leads to Teen Suicide, New Study Reveals

February 15, 2012 Resources
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A study released in the journal Developmental Psychology last year found that these people who were bullied as children were about 2.5 times more likely as others to be clinically depressed as young adults. Being bullied (over the time period of the study) and a low level of support from others boosted the risk that the teens [...]

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