There is a difference between religion and faith. Religion tells stories. Faith has a story to tell. Redefining Normal is an invitation to reclaim the life of faith from inside the religion of Christianity. Dave Rhodes challenges readers to a journey of becoming extraordinary disciples.
Facing Your Fears is a 40-day devotional resource for teenagers and young adults that will allow the Lord to reveal where fear has taken hold of their lives and guide them to put an end to these strongholds through a powerful, Scripture-driven experience.
In Youth Ministry For The Longer Haul: A Field Guide For Longevity, youth ministry veteran and author Chris Trent passes along over three decades of hard-earned advice, knowledgeable insights, and practical wisdom. Chris knows firsthand the value of ministry mentors. And throughout the pages of this book, he mentors you, the reader, so that you too can experience success in navigating the pathway to longevity in youth ministry.
Disciple: The Ordinary Person’s Guide To Discipling Teenagers, written by one of the leading voices in youth ministry, Dr. Allen Jackson, is a practical, down-to-earth guide for leading teenagers to pursue Christ.
A Parent's Guide to Understanding Teenage Brains: Why They Act the Way They Do is a resource designed to help parents of teenagers understand and appreciate the amazing transformations students' brains undergo in adolescence to prepare for adulthood and its many responsibilities.
99 Thoughts for Parents of Teenagers is a parent resource designed to help guide parents, encourage them, and give them insights on fulfilling God's great call to raise teenagers who pursue a Jesus-centered life.
Freshman: Making Faith Your Priority is a 30-day devotional that addresses many "firsts": your first day of high school, your first football game, your first pop quiz, and even some of your first major temptations. It's also a year filled with some really important questions: How can you make good habits? How can you make faith a priority, not just another "thing" in your life?
Sophomore: Stepping Into Maturity is a 30-day devotional that will help high school sophomores answer some of the unique questions they are presented in their 10th grade year: what role do friends play in their lives? Who are their role models? What life-shaping habits are they developing?
Junior: Making Sense of It All is a 30-day devotional designed to answer important questions students have during their incredibly important 11th grade year: what is their identity? What role will faith make in their futures? How do they make decisions?
(EXTRA)Ordinary: 365 Ordinary Moments with an Anything-But-Ordinary God is a year-long devotional journal your students will actually want to read. Divided into three sections, students can go in any order based on their unique life circumstances. But, each day they will come face-to-face with God in these biblically-centered devotions.
The 7 Best Practices for Teaching Teenagers the Bible is a resource for youth workers that teaches seven meaningful practices they can use to help teach the Bible in a transformative and dynamic way.
Youth Ministry in a Post-Christian World: A Hopeful Wake-Up Call is the collection of humble, story-driven, pragmatic, and Jesus-focused reflections of a fellow youth worker forced to reconsider everything he knew about youth ministry: everything except the gospel, that is.
Teaching Teenagers in a Post-Christian World: Cultivating Exploration and Ownership will help youth workers shift from being content dispensers to conversation cultivators. Instead of treating teenagers like consumers—even when we really believe in what we're selling—let's create learning environments that lead to faith exploration and ownership.
On the Spot: No-Prep Games for Youth Ministry is a helpful resource including over 20 games not needing any preparation. Each 15-minute game is easy to use whenever your teenagers need to have some "fun in a flash."
Best-Ever Games for Youth Ministry contains over 200 field-tested games that are easy to use in many settings and include classic games with new twists, indoor and outdoor, games that teach, and games that build community.
Everybody's Urban: Understanding the Survival Mindset of the Next Generation helps youth workers in every setting—in the middle of a large city or rural small town—move beyond identifying the students in their ministry by where they live or their skin color into real-world strategies to minister to today's teenagers.
Marriage can be messy, and marriage while serving in ministry is extra messy. Whether your marriage needs just a little tuneup or a major overhaul, 99 Thoughts on Marriage & Ministry: Prioritizing the "Holy-mess" of Matrimony will encourage both you and your spouse and will empower you to pursue a strong, healthy marriage.
Purpose Driven Youth Ministry: 9 Essential Foundations for Healthy Growth will provide principles to help create and maintain healthy youth ministries for the long run, centered around the principles of evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, and worship.
Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry is a must-have tool for new youth workers, volunteers, seminary professors and students—even veteran youth workers. Author Doug Fields offers practical advice, all in the hope that new youth workers can achieve real longevity in an often tumultuous church culture.
Youth Ministry on a Shoestring: How to Do More With Less offers encouragement and inspiration to begin a "new" way of looking for resources. Lack of funding doesn't have to mean a lack of fun. From the people and things in your church and community, you'll uncover a whole new world of possibilities that can help you do ministry—and do it well.
Building a Youth Ministry That Builds Disciples: A Small Book About a Big Idea offers a blueprint for building in teenagers the ultimate ministry goal—a lifelong love of Christ.
It’s the classic game you know and love—but with a twist that turns up the tension! In Rock Paper Scissors, the whole room plays at once, but this time the screen is in charge. Each round, a video rapidly cycles through rock, paper, and scissors while students lock in their move by holding it out in front of them. Then the reveal video plays… and the screen throws down its choice. If your move loses to what’s on the screen, you’re out! It’s fast, it’s intense, and the last one standing takes the win.
How to Play:
Have all students stand up and get ready. Play the first video, which quickly cycles through rock, paper, and scissors to build suspense. When it ends, students choose and lock in their move by holding it out clearly. Then play the reveal video to show what the screen picks. Anyone whose move is beaten by the screen’s choice is out and sits down. Repeat with the remaining players until only one student is left—they’re the champion!
Get ready to say “No way!” over and over again. No Way! – TV Edition will have your whole group second-guessing reality as you try to decide if these ridiculous-sounding TV shows are actually real or totally made up. From wild reality shows to bizarre scripted plots, some of these were somehow greenlit… and some are complete fakes. Can you spot the real ones, or will you fall for the fakes?
How to Play:
Display the title and description of a TV show on the screen. Some are real shows that actually aired, and some are completely made up. Students decide whether they think it’s real or fake and move to one of two sides of the room—Left for Real, Right for Fake. Once everyone has picked a side, reveal the answer. Anyone who guessed incorrectly is out. Keep playing until only one contestant remains!
Grab your passports and fire up your GPS—it's time for Map Quest! Each round, two different road trips pop up on the screen, and teams have to decide which one is the shorter drive. It’s a fast-paced guessing game that mixes road-trip trivia with wild travel match-ups. Perfect for high-energy crowd participation and a little friendly competition!
How to Play
Split your group into two teams. Each round, show two different trips on the screen. Teams must guess which drive is shorter by pointing left or right (or by having team captains lock in their team’s answers). Once both teams have guessed, reveal which trip was actually shorter. Award one point to the team that guessed correctly. Keep score and play as many rounds as you like—the team with the most correct guesses wins!
Get ready to enter the ultimate debate stage with Hypotheticals – Movie Characters! Each round pits two iconic movie characters against each other in a ridiculous, over-the-top scenario—like “Who would win a bake-off: Darth Vader or Shrek?” or “Who’d survive longer in a zombie apocalypse: Elsa or Indiana Jones?” The crowd doesn’t get to sit this one out! One person is brought up to argue for each character, then the entire room casts their vote by physically moving to the left or right side of the room to show where they stand. It’s funny, it’s fiery, and it’ll have your group passionately defending their favorites in the most absurd situations.
How to Play:
Bring one student from each team on stage to represent each of the two characters shown on screen. Read the hypothetical scenario out loud, then give each student 20–30 seconds to argue why their character would win. Once both sides have argued, the rest of the group votes with their feet—everyone moves to the side of the room that matches the character they think would win. Keep score for each round or just play for fun and laughs!
Hut, hut... guess! Total Survival – NFL Edition is the ultimate football trivia faceoff where your only play is your gut. From jaw-dropping touchdown records to mind-blowing stat lines, you'll see one number at a time and then try to survive by guessing whether the next NFL-themed answer is higher or lower. Guess wrong and you're out. Guess right and you live to play another down. It's fast, competitive, and full of football surprises!
How to Play:
Display an NFL-themed question on the screen with a number as the answer. For the next round, show a new question—but only the question, not the answer. Students must guess if the answer to the new question is higher or lower than the previous number.
Students who think it’s higher move to the left side of the room; those who think it’s lower move to the right.
Once everyone picks a side, reveal the correct number. Anyone who guessed wrong is out. Keep playing until one student is left standing—or see who can survive the longest in this gridiron guessing game!
Everyone uses emojis. Test how well students can identify what the first emoticons meant! This throwback game keeps students engaged and laughing, as well as gives a small history lesson in the origins of emojis!
How well can your students actually define popular slang from their generation? With "Gen Z Slang" students can put their pop culture vocab to the test! Each slide presents a different word that is common with current teens. This hilarious game keeps students entertained and laughing!
How well can your students actually define popular slang from their generation? With "Gen Z Slang" students can put their pop culture vocab to the test! Each slide presents a different word that is common with current teens. This hilarious game keeps students entertained and laughing!
Second edition of "KING OF THE QUIZ". This game tests your students knowledge of their royal rulers knowledge. Each question shows a well-known animated King, Emperor, or other Royalty. Students race to be the first to name the fictional character shown. The winner of this fast paced game can confidently declare themselves the KING OF THE QUIZ!
Students race to correctly identify the logo representing each iconic hero. From Marvel to DC, each question sparks friendly competition! Students can easily work individually or in teams, allowing everyone to participate.
Think your group has the ultimate besties in it? Let them compete as best friends go head-to-head in ridiculous challenges to make each other laugh — and keeping a straight face is the only way to win! From wild impressions to nonsense rants and dramatic stares, it's all fun and games... especially when someone cracks up!
Hooray for Hollywood! At least, some of it. Among all the exciting films, actors, and more in these different rounds, one has to go. Students vote by holding up 1, 2, 3, or 4 fingers to say which one is cut! Then the host reveals their selection, and anyone who matches scores 1000 points! It's the ultimate casting call – and you all get to make the decisions! ACTION!
Tough choices just got a whole lot sweeter! In Sweeten the Deal, players consider what it would take to say “yes” to a difficult decision between two potential payoffs if they did. This can just be a fun mixer full of fun, debate, and surprising preferences – or, you can use it to see if students will do something challenging in your program. Have fun as you SWEETEN THE DEAL!
Looking for a fun and powerful way to get your group talking? Play this creative game as a face-off or with the whole group. Most of the prompts will bring out some wild, hilarious stories — those unforgettable “did that really happen?” moments. A few others will shift gears and tap into the heart a bit more. It’s all so your group can deepen and widen their journey together through sharing experiences!
Ready for more stories, more laughs, and more connection? Volume 2 of “Who Has A Story?” brings a brand-new batch of prompts designed to get your group talking (and cracking up). Whether you play as a head-to-head face-off or open it up to everyone, you’ll hear those wild “no way that happened” moments and a few that tug at the heart, too. It’s the perfect way to spark openness, joy, and community… one story at a time.
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