Student Ministry

Here’s the truth: If you don’t get people engaged with your message at the start, they’ll be distracted as your message moves along. With these stories, you’ll have exactly what you need to master the art of the start! These stories aren’t the “Everyone gather around while I tell you a story” kind of stories. And they aren’t the “Once upon a time” kind of stories either. These stories come from weird news, current events, and interesting moments in history. It’s so much fun when you connect them to the topics of your sermons!

Student ministry is one of the most demanding forms of ministry out there. Leaders are normally expected to teach twice a week, partner with parents, and be an active part of the students’ lives outside of church. For the most part, many student ministry leaders know this going into the ministry of students, and yet are left realizing there is so much more than taking kids to camp and showing up for extracurricular activities.

What would you give to sit down with some of the most influential youth workers in the country? Not just the big names but those individuals who have proven time after time that they have a passion for reaching teens today that is pushing the limits of traditional youth ministry? In Pushing the Limits, veteran youth workers Mike Calhoun and Mel Walker have collected some of the best writing from youth pastors and leaders in churches big and small around the country who are doing what it takes to tap into the true potential of youth ministry.

This complete and unabridged edition of Spurgeon's great work will make it possible for today's generation to appreciate Spurgeon's combination of discerning wit and refreshingly practical advice. Included in the 28 chapters of this classic volume are lectures such as: The Call to Ministry, The Preacher's Private Prayer, On the Choice of a Text, On the Voice, The Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry, The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear, On Conversion as Our Aim, and Illustrations in Preaching.

The Bible reveals glorious things. And yet we often miss its power because we read it the same way we read any other book. In Reading the Bible Supernaturally, best-selling author John Piper teaches us how to read the Bible in light of its divine author. In doing so, he highlights the Bible's unique ability to reveal God to humanity in a way that informs our minds, transforms our hearts, and ignites our love.

The Jesus Climb crafts George Mallory's quest to climb the world's tallest mountain into a parable illustrating how Jesus trained his first students to summit the world's greatest commandment. Like Mallory peering too low on the horizon to see Everest's peak towering above him, the lack of Christlikeness in modern Christianity stems from our inability to imagine the impossible heights to which Jesus calls us.

The clergy and ministers of all denominations, home and foreign missionaries, open-air preachers, Sunday-school and Bible-class teachers, tract-distributors, and Christians of all ranks will here find much that will help them to exercise that "all-round ministry" of which Mr. Spurgeon himself was so earnest an advocate and so bright an example.

This is a newly revised edition of one of the standard introductory preaching textbooks on the market today. Beginning with a solid theological basis, veteran preacher and best-selling author Thomas G. Long offers a practical, step-by-step guide to writing a sermon. Long centers his approach around the biblical concept of witness. To be a preacher, Long posits, is to be a witness to God's work in the world - one who sees before speaking, one whose task is to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about what is seen".

In this student edition of Gods at War, Kyle Idleman helps us recognize there are false gods at war within each of us, and they battle for the place of glory and control in our lives. What keeps us from truly following Jesus Christ is that our hearts are pursuing something or someone else like money or popularity.

For youth workers, volunteers, denominations and other leaders who want the youth retreat to end in the parking lot instead of the emergency room.

With amazing clarity and pastoral insight, the author identifies thirteen secrets that he believes are necessary to achieve ministerial success. He skillfully illustrates each with the life of outstanding Christian preachers, evangelists or missionary statesmen. Maxey is a prolific writer, a dynamic preacher and teacher of the word of God, pastor and a church builder as well as the founder of two theological colleges in Nigeria. His views in this book should be taken seriously, most particularly in view of his maturity and experience in Christian service and ministry.

Genuine, lasting life-change is the heartbeat of youth ministry but too few students experience it. Through a simple but revolutionary process of “mentoring a few,” dramatic transformation can happen in the lives of students—with benefits that spread throughout the ministry.

Christian students are in a tough spot. What they've heard about God doesn't seem to match what they see in the world, and they're getting tired of trite slogans that try to sweep it under the rug....

Social media will help your ministry go further, faster. In this practical book, you'll learn: how to get started with social media in your ministry; the best ways to create an endless stream of engaging content; essential checkpoints to consider before posting things online; 24 topics you can use to get your followers talking; and more!

It’s time to go beyond saying “I’m not racist.” It’s time to take action. It’s time to become a color-courageous Christian and stand up to racism wherever you see it—in your school, in your community, and in your own heart and mind. In Color-Courageous Discipleship Student Edition, Michelle T. Sanchez shows you how racial righteousness was God’s idea in the first place.

This new Christian book series gives you the most powerful Bible verses and Scripture for raising our kids today in this most challenging environment. To understand how to best raise our children, we must first understand how God raises us. After all we are called "children of God". So we must master this mindset first, to be best prepared to raise our own children. Raising our children property can be a blessing that lasts a lifetime.

Have you ever felt like you had one foot in heaven and the other on the Earth? What would you do if this actually happened? This audiobook has come to you at the right time in your life because you have downloaded it. Is it a coincidence? Or is it because you are now ready to walk a new path in your life, one that many dare not tread because it leads to the master within all of us? At 39, Jean Luc Lafitte had an experience that was to change the course of his life. It was to challenge his very existence and start him on a path from which many do not return.

With high expectations, Vanguards of a Missionary Uprising calls on Christian African-American students to step forward and lead a new international missionary movement. Celebrating their leadership potential, a veteran urban missionary makes this positive challenge from Jesus Christ's Great Commission in the Bible.