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Connected for Life is for anyone who has been asked to lead a youth ministry program. Youth ministry leaders - both church workers and volunteers - will appreciate this comprehensive guide to developing, leading, and maintaining a thriving youth ministry program. This all-in-one handbook guides leaders in creating and maintaining a strong youth program. Drawing on the experience and expertise of numerous youth ministry professionals, this book serves as a comprehensive resource for everything from basic leadership development to creating a philosophy of ministry and more.

With so many issue swirling about and what seems to be a constant stream of negative stories about culture and society, Why Am I Joyfully Lutheran? is a bold challenge and encouragement for Lutheran laypersons to engage joyfully in being Lutheran wherever and whenever God gives them the opportunity. Addressing specific significant cultural issues such as human sexuality, gender identity, human life issues, etc., adult Lutherans will be interested to learn how the Lutheran confession of Christianity addresses a range of contemporary topics.

The Christian life is one of dualities: we are simultaneously sinner and saint, we know believers and non-believers, we interact in the left and right kingdoms, and we hear Law and Gospel. These seemingly competing dualities can frustrate Christians as they try to live out their faith. Many wonder if the Bible presents conflicting ideas - and how, in light of that confusion, can Christians be salt and light in a world that is often opposed to Christianity? But these dualities actually focus the Christian faith. As readers grow in their understanding of this knowledge, they will be encouraged to live out their faith more fruitfully, abundantly, and effectively. They will have the tools to face their struggles and return to their identity in Christ.

For Christians who are struggling to understand what it means to be pious and how to embrace the classic Christian practices of piety, Thank, Praise, Serve, and Obey shows that acts of piety are not simply rules to keep in order to be a "good" Christian, but they are how the new life in Christ is lived out in day-to-day life. This book explores how to properly hear in the Scriptures our heavenly Father summoning us to the joy and freedom of living and growing as His beloved children through Jesus Christ.

In Myth of the Millennial, authors Rev. Ted and Chelsey Doering, Millennials themselves, invite churches to stop hitting the panic button and trying anything and everything to get Millennials to stay in or come back to church. Because connecting with the Millennial generation - their generation, their peers - is simpler than it seems. And don't worry, they won't prescribe expensive building renovations or a new wardrobe for your pastor. They do, however, explore common millennial stereotypes in the hopes of helping other generations better understand this lost generation. They also offer ideas on how to build strong intergenerational relationships to better equip Boomers and Gen-Xers to engage a generation that is generally apathetic and disinterested in the Church. Because, ultimately, all this talk about Millennials and generations is not about upping church attendance for the sake of numbers; it's about one generation leading another to Christ.

Conflicteven at churchis inevitable. So how do congregations deal with conflict in a healthy way that prevents hurt and proactively addresses important topics that need to be discussed?

Why a book specifically on supporting the workers of the church? Special attention needs to be given because workers of the church are at increased risk of sadness, despair, stress, frustration, cynicism, anger, and disappointment. Written in a plain down-to-earth style this book will educate the professional church worker, thereby improving their relationship with the congregations they serve.

This book, written by a Certified Christian Conciliator with more than 20 years of experience in church reconciliation, offers practical advice for improving the spiritual health of congregations and the ministers that lead them.

Even the Bible's greatest heroes stumbled. No, really, they sinned the same way that humanity today sins. Mary and Martha doubted Christ. Moses got impatient with God. Samson was prideful and forgot His strength was from God. Jonah wanted revenge and went against God's plan. The list of less-than-perfect biblical figures goes on and on. What do they have in common? God still loved them, even with their sins, mess-ups, blunders, rebelliousness: he loved them no matter what. Zoom in on why these inspirational biblical people like Moses, Samson, Gideon, David, and Peter chose to stray from the path they knew was right. More importantly, look at how God responded to apply it to your life today. Redeemed: Our Lives as Sinners and Saints will take you through 14 shortcomings as seen in the Bible, and author Dan Hoppen's own personal examples, to show that, through Christ's sacrifice on the cross, all of creation is saved and loved, no matter how bad our sins.

Churches across America are constantly updating their culture to accord with the secular culture. But Authentic Christianity offers another idea: that the Lutheran tradition embodies a framework of Christianity that uniquely addresses the postmodern condition. It does so not by being "emergent" or by making up a new approach to church or to the Christian life. Rather, it does so in an unexpected way: by being confessional, sacramental, and vocational. Authentic Christianity is a collaboration between an academic of the Boomer generation and a young Millennial pastor. Coming from two very different places - different generations, different vocations, different entries into Lutheranism - authors Gene Veith and Trevor Sutton offer their unique perspectives on how Lutheran theology engages contemporary life.