Ideal for youth of all ages, this new book helps young people connect their lives with Scripture and grow in their day-to-day relationship with Christ. Covers the entire book of Romans, with 50 devotions and questions for reflection. A great source of devotions, this may also be used as a commentary during personal Bible study, or as a program resource. Laurie Polich is a well-known, sought-out speaker for youth groups and youth workers. Speaking to more than 100,000 youth, youth workers, and young adults each year, Laurie has presented at Youth for Christ's DC/LA events, Youth Specialties' national conventions, and numerous other events. She has authored eight books, including Dive Into Living Water, Small Group Qs: 600 Eye-Opening Questions for Deepening Community and Exploring Scripture and Creative Bible Lessons in the Old Testament.

ISBN: 9780687081189
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This book is the third in a series of devotional books for teens by Laurie Polich. Polich is a well-known and exciting speaker among Christian youth as she tells compelling stories, conveys timely truths to today's teens, and empowers them to go deeper into their study of the Bible. Genesis will become more than just the first book of the Bible to youth by reading In the Beginning. They will learn the major themes and stories as well as take time to reflect on what those ancient stories have to say to them today.

ISBN: 9780687739721
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This Advent resource contains five programs for use in Sunday school, youth groups, or Bible study. It includes ideas for service projects, plans for Christmas and New Year's parties, and worship ideas.

Key Benefits:

ISBN: 9780687740529
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365 Meditations for Teens offers teens the opportunity to listen in as talented teen and adult writers explore important questions like, “What do other people think of me?” “Will my parents ever understand me?” “Does God really care about me?” Though each writer’s unique personality and style are expressed, a common message of encouragement emerges: God’s unconditional love for you will never fail. If you put your faith in God’s unshakeable love, this foundation cannot be shaken—even when your world seems to be tumbling down around you—or even down upon you! Monthly themes include topics relevant to teens, like popular culture, making choices or discipleship. Each of the daily meditations takes just a few minutes to read, begins with a passage of Scripture, and ends with a prayer, making this book an ideal gift that will help any teen enrich and deepen his or her faith journey.

ISBN: 9780687088072
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In Letters to a Young Poet, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke advises to "be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves," for gradually, "you will live into the answers." These words have long struck renowned preacher and activist William Sloane Coffin as a wise way to view a growing and evolving life. Thus inspired, Coffin, former university chaplain at Yale, imagined a similar volume of letters. In an exchange of letters over the months of an academic year, Bill writes an imagined bright, young college student, answering his questions and giving typically-Coffin sage advice about problems of faith, the difficulties of personal life, and the ever more confusing and complex problems of today's world. In these letters, Bill Coffin demonstrates that a strong religious faith despite doubts is far stronger than one without doubts. And, as he says, no one so reveals an absence of faith as a dogmatist.

ISBN: 9780664229290
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SERVE A NEW MIXED MENU
OF WORSHIP

Worship Feast –
    A Broad Menu of Extraordinary Worship Ideas
    Blending a Vastly Diverse Mix
    of Spiritual Experiences



Serve a multi-sensory worship experience to your youth, mixing a cornucopia of ancient contemplative rituals with modern audio-visuals.

Engage them with a mix of group participation, silent meditation, and sacred symbolism. Move them with a recipe of ancient chants blended with contemporary Christian rock.

Worship Feast Ideas serves up 100 new worship ideas for an impactful group communion.

These worship plans & scripts coordinate and blend a vast range of ancient and modern worship activities from extreme ends of many spectrums.

They are like international multi-course meals that mix menu choices from Italian, Mexican, American, and Asian cuisine with more obscure selections from far corners of the globe.

For example...in Worship Feast you might find a mix of...

...monastic-style meditation rituals, with modern visuals on slides, formal ceremonies, candles, oil lamps & incense, medieval chants mixed with a hip-hop beat, scripted dramas, ambient music with contemplative silence, plus storytelling, unison group recital readings, movie clips, and participatory scripture interpretations created in paint, sand, clay, or water.

Worship Feast Ideas was especially designed for youth workers and pastors who want to reach young people in their worship services by taking the sacred traditions of the worshiping church and blending them with current experiences.

This book includes ideas for creating meaningful custom-made services...incorporating multisensory experiential worship elements into existing services (maybe even on Sunday mornings!)

Serve youth a worship menu that leaves them inspired…and full.

ISBN: 9780687063574
Retail Price: $17.00

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SERVE A NEW MIXED MENU
OF WORSHIP

Worship Feast:
A Broad Menu of Coordinated Worship Scripts
Blending a Vastly Diverse Mix
of Spiritual Experiences

Serve a multi-sensory worship experience to your youth, mixing a cornucopia of ancient contemplative rituals with modern audio-visuals.

Engage them with a mix of group participation, silent meditation, and sacred symbolism.  Move them with a recipe of ancient chants and contemporary Christian rock.

The Worship Feast series serves up hundreds of worship menus, providing you with a bottomless melting pot of ideas for group communion.

These worship plans & scripts coordinate and blend a vast range of ancient and modern worship activities from extreme ends of many spectrums.

They are like international multi-course meals that mix menu choices from Italian, Mexican, American, and Asian cuisine with more obscure selections from far corners of the globe.

For example, in Worship Feast you might find...

...a mix of monastic-style meditation rituals, with modern visuals on slides, formal ceremonies, candles, oil lamps & incense, medieval chants mixed with a hip-hop beat, scripted dramas, ambient music with contemplative silence, plus storytelling, unison group recital readings, movie clips, and participatory scripture interpretations created in paint, sand, clay, or water.

Worship Feast was especially designed for youth workers and pastors who want to reach young people in their worship services by taking the sacred traditions of the worshiping church and blending them with current experiences.

Serve youth a worship menu that leaves them inspired…and full.

ISBN: 9780687063673
Retail Price: $17.00

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SERVE A NEW MIXED MENU 
OF WORSHIP

Worship Feast:
A Broad Menu of Extraordinary Worship Dramas



Serve an extraordinary worship experience to your youth. Engage them, and move them. 

Make an impact.

Sometimes all you need to complete a meaningful worhip experience is a new skit that's easy to pull off...
        ...a drama that youth will love to perform, and one that will challenge actors and audience alike to ask serious questions about maintaining a life of faith in a not-so-faith-friendly world. 

With Worship Feast Dramas you will get a diverse variety of skits - both long and short - in one resource!  These skits have been field-tested with real youth in real situations.

Skits include --

• Teach Me To Pray
• Survivor
• The Pizza Party
• McJesus To Go
• The Workers at the Mall
• The Sabbath Zone
• Sail Away                           ...and many more.

The current generation of young people doesn't know a time when information wasn't coming at them from every direction. They multi-task every second of their waking lives.

To meet their needs in worship, we offer a variety of postmodern worship--a multi-sensory, whole-person experience.

Postmodern young people are not content to be observers of worship.  They want all-out participation in soul-shaping, heart-waking praise to their Creator. 

Postmodern worship experiences offer moments of transformation by meeting God through all of the senses.

Worship Feast Dramas was especially designed for youth workers and pastors who want to reach young people in their worship services by taking the sacred traditions of the worshiping church...and blending them with current experiences.

Serve youth a worship menu that leaves them inspired…and full.

ISBN: 9780687044597
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Where else would teens find courage and strength to live for God if not from the Gospel of John? This book takes readers through the Book of John in 50 devotions written especially to speak to youth concerns. Each devotion is only two pages and covers 10-30 verses, giving youth a great way to connect with Scripture. And youth leaders will find dozens of illustrations, questions for reflection, and program ideas to beef up their ministry to youth.

ISBN: 9780687052233
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The statistics are staggering: the dropout rate for teenagers in church escalates as youth enter high school and continues to increase with each year. Churches have little idea what they can do about the hemorrhage and most often simply give up and hope the youth will return "when they have children of their own, " which is not happening.

Sacred Bridges provides help for pastor, youth leaders, and other adults who are interested in keeping senior high youth involved in church. The book offers success stories from churches who have not only retained youth but have reached new youth in the high school years. From these success stories, Mike Ratliff distills the principles that will enable other churches to be more effective in reaching and keeping senior high youth.

ISBN: 9780687063666
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A pocket-sized resource for youth workers, pastors, and para-church directors to put into the hands of new believers. This pocket-sized book is a valuable tool for new believers--ideal for handing to teens who've made new commitments to Christ. Now What? shows teens how to nurture and carry out their faith with basic, easy-to-follow recommendations. Perfect for seeker-oriented services, retreats, camps, and wherever youth have "mountain top" experiences.

ISBN: 9780687081196
Retail Price: $5.00

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Worship Feast: A Unique Menu of Taize Worship Services


Serve a multi-sensory worship experience to your youth, mixing a cornucopia of ancient contemplative rituals with modern elements.

Engage them with a mix of group participation, silent meditation, and sacred symbolism. Move them with a recipe of ancient chants and contemporary Christian rock.

Worship Feast Taize is a tool for youth and youth workers who want to experience worship services in the unique tradition of Taizé, but don't know how to get started.
Christians all over the world are catching on to the ancient monastic Taize style worship. Worship services in the spirit of Taize are contemplative in nature and include meditations, repetitive singing, Scripture readings, prayers, and periods of silence.

The services of Worship Feast Taize are reproducible and include short written meditations, song suggestions, and written prayers. An added feature is a split-track CD.  Each song has both instrumental accompaniment and a voice track to help users learn the songs.

In Worship Feast resources you can find this mix of monastic-style meditation rituals, along with modern visuals on slides, formal ceremonies, candles, oil lamps & incense, medieval chants mixed with a hip-hop beat, ambient music with contemplative silence, and unison group recital readings.

Worship Feast was especially designed for youth workers and pastors who want to reach young people in their worship services by taking the sacred traditions of the worshiping church and blending them with current experiences.

Serve youth a worship menu that leaves them inspired…and full.

Worship Feast Taize Songbook sold separately  ISBN # 9780687739325

ISBN: 9780687741915
Retail Price: $20.00

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OF WORSHIP

Worship Feast Taize Songbook:
A Unique Menu of Songs in the Taize Tradition


Serve a multi-sensory worship experience to your youth, mixing a cornucopia of ancient contemplative rituals with modern elements.

Engage them with a mix of group participation, silent meditation, and sacred symbolism. Move them with a recipe of ancient chants and contemporary Christian rock.

The Worship Feast Taize Songbook was specifically designed as a companion piece for use with Worship Feast: Complete Services in the Spirit of Taize.
 
The songbook includes 15 popular and easy-to-sing Taize songs that will lead youth and youth workers to a deeper prayer experience.

Melody lines and simple chords for guitars or keyboards make this a very approachable and easy-to-use resource, even if you are new to Taize music.

With the Worship Feast Taize Songbook, anyone can offer an authentic Taize experience to their youth. Nowhere else will you find this collection of 15 Taize favorites. You will want a songbook for everyone in your group.

Worship Feast Taize resources provide tools for youth and youth workers who want to experience worship services in the unique tradition of Taizé, but don't know how to get started.

Christians all over the world are catching on to the ancient monastic Taize style worship. Worship services in the spirit of Taize are contemplative in nature and include meditations, repetitive singing, Scripture readings, prayers, and extended periods of silence.
 
In other Worship Feast resources, you can find a mix of monastic-style meditation rituals, along with modern visuals on slides, formal ceremonies, candles, oil lamps & incense, medieval chants mixed with a hip-hop beat, ambient music with contemplative silence, and unison group recital readings.

Worship Feast was especially designed for youth workers and pastors who want to reach young people in their worship services by taking the sacred traditions of the worshiping church and blending them with current experiences.

Serve your youth a worship menu that leaves them inspired…and full.

Worship Feast Taize Services with Split Track CD: 20 Complete Services in the Spirit of Taize sold separately ISBN # 9780687741915

ISBN: 9780687739325
Retail Price: $6.50

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Mission Easter is your source for Lenten programming ideas. In addition to seven Sunday programs, Mission: Easter contains devotional programs for Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday. Mission: Easter also has 7 Lenten Bible studies, 2 original seasonal dramas, worship and retreat ideas, and a 6-page Bible dictionary.

The programs and ideas in Mission: Easter will help your youth better understand the tradtions, beleifs, and practices that make this season so holy.

ISBN: 9780687054701
Retail Price: $4.00

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Following up on her two bestselling Safe Sanctuaries manuals (Children and Youth), Joy Thornburg Melton now offers a DVD/video to use in training and in raising awareness in your congregation. The three key segments address the why and how of developing and implementing a policy to reduce the risk of abuse in your church, and provide a Reporting and Response Plan to implement in the event of an incident. The DVD also includes an interview with Joy, stories from her experience working with churches, and forms.

ISBN: 9780881774153
Retail Price: $27.00

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