Youth Ministry Curriculum and Resources

The Jesus Studies cut through the confusion, teaching your students a Christ-centered look at the major issues they deal with in their lives. These lessons are not watered-down, topical Bible studies. This studies reveal how Jesus weighs in on the very issues your students are confronted with on a daily basis. Your students will learn to see life through the person of Christ. 

New: First Steps for New Christ Followers is a powerful 4-week devotional journal that will help students take the first steps on their new journey with Christ.

Enjoy this resource? Check out Nuevo: First Steps for Christ Followers [Spanish Edition] here. 

Extraordinary Life, a series on Elijah, will help your students see their own story echoed in one of the most human stories in the Bible. Through Elijah’s story and all of his ups and downs, students are going to learn what an authentic life of faith and passion looks like.

By Name takes a deep dive into the life of one of the Bible’s most cunning characters: Jacob. Over four sessions, this series will challenge students to reflect on how they see themselves versus how God sees them. By looking at key moments in Jacob’s story, they’ll explore how God knows them personally and invites them into His greater purpose.

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In Difference Maker: Impacting the World for Christ, a four-session sermon series, your students will learn what it means to be a difference-maker as they learn from four biblical leaders that made a tremendous difference.

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Teach YM360's Sermon Series "Elemental: The Foundation for a World-Changing Life" to challenge your students to be elemental people who move beyond a mere passion for becoming people of mission who change the world.

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One Charge: is a four-session sermon series that will explore four separate parts of the life of Joseph. This series will challenge your students’ perspectives on power, authority, and their responsibilities in the Kingdom of God. They will learn that God has much more planned for their lives than they think and will be better equipped to handle the weight of God-given authority.

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?

Senior: Preparing for the Future is a 30-day devotional that addresses common questions 12th grade students have during their final year of high school: what is your legacy? How do you deal with regrets? What does it mean to truly let God lead you?

Do you ever find that it can be lonely living as a believer? For thousands of years, God’s people have had to balance living out their faith while being surrounded by those who do not follow God. Sometimes, they may even live among people who are hostile toward God’s people. This four-week devotional is meant to address this very feeling. In Esther: The Time is Now, you will spend time getting to know a cast of people, including Esther and Mordecai. As Jewish people in the Persian Kingdom, they deal with what it means to be God’s people in the midst of a culture that does not honor or worship God. We are continually faced with the same question that Mordecai asked Esther: What if you are meant for a time such as this? The answer is that we are made for such a time. And the time? The Time is Now.

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How To Be A Man: Pursuing Christ-centered Masculinity [Student Edition] is a 40-day devotional experience that will challenge teenage guys to a more passionate pursuit of growing in to the man God is calling them to be.

How To Be A Man: Learning From Real Men Of The Bible [Student Edition] is a 40-day devotional experience that uses the lives of eight men of the Bible as an example and challenges teenage guys to live a life of impact and influence, changing the world around them for the sake of the Gospel.

Now: Mission Trip Edition is a four-week devotional experience for your mission trip will help your students understand the purpose God has in store for them, catch God's vision for exactly how He wants to use their mission trip; and practice real, practical ways to impact their world.

Do you know a girl who would benefit from a book that encourages them in their walk with God AND speaks about the unique journey of being a young woman of faith? YM360 has a book for her! Instead of looking through resources that isolate the unique young women in your life or provide uninspired advice on how to fit in, give them a book that encourages them to stand out! 99 Things Every Girl Should Know was written by a collection of women that truly know the struggles and triumphs of being a girl that follows Christ in a world that does not.

Spiritual Gifts, a three-lesson Bible study, will help your students understand that the Holy Spirit works in Christ-followers to grow the Church, that Jesus paved the way for the Holy Spirit to empower all believers to serve, and to understand what spiritual gifts they’ve been given.

Service, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students understand that the heart of service is seen in God’s desire to provide for us, His children, that Jesus was the ultimate Servant, and that life as a Christ-follower is marked by service that ultimately serves to share the Gospel with the world.

The Church, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help your students learn that the Church is pictured as the Body of Christ, positioned to represent Christ on this earth.

God’s Kingdom, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help your students interject aspects of God's Kingdom into the world around them, each day. And this has a powerful effect. It literally serves to draw others to God, in turn, welcoming them into God's Kingdom.

Jesus And Identity: A 4-Lesson Bible Study, one of 13 Jesus Studies Bible studies, will teach students what Jesus meant when He challenged them to be salt and light, and they’ll be reminded that Jesus defines greatness differently than the world. This Bible study will help students discover who Jesus intends them to be.

What if your students’ single life or dating world wasn’t at the mercy of their latest crush “crushing back” but was incredibly meaningful and life-giving on its own? What if they became the kind of friend who could inspire real meaning in their friend circle? What if they knew how to be especially and appropriately thoughtful in letting their special someone feel like a special someone? What if they had a genuine understanding of the freedom God gives them when they trust Him in all of these things, whether their relationship status changes or not? 

There’s a lot of advice floating around on all of this, right? Every one of your students probably already has a set of answers for all the questions about what it means to be single, dating, a friend, or romantic. But whether those conclusions were inherited from others around them, movies they watch, celebrities they follow, church messages, or personal experiences, there’s so much more room to let God reset them with new questions that can get them to healthier places. 

In SINGLE, DATING, FRIENDSHIPS, & ROMANCE, your students will discover the genius wisdom and unconditional love of God through a lot of laughter, interaction, honesty, and opportunities to reflect. Maybe they’ll even consider trading in whatever “answers” they’ve been living with for something healthier as they learn what it looks like to ask some new questions and operate out of a life-long relationship with Jesus. Throughout it all, your students will discover that they’re worth it, and so is what they’re fighting for!