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 Children's Ministry in the 21st Century
Rich Chromey, Craig Jutila, Pat Verbal
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Get ready for what's coming next in children's ministry...ten front line children minstry experts peeked out over the horizon to identify ten trends shaping ministry in the next ten years. Included are topics such as: - How current culture is rewiring kids' brains--and secrets for connecting with children
- The latest education trends embraced by schools--and how they'll impact your Sunday School
- Morphing children's ministry into family ministry--and how that supersizes your impact
- What kinds of children are about to land in your ministry--and how to be ready for them
- Plus six more must-know insights--and practical activities that help you take advantage of shifting trends in your children's ministry
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 Postmodern Children's Ministry: Ministry to Children in the 21st Century Church
Ivy Beckwith
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This book offers a vision of ministry that meets children where they are and gives them the tools to sustain faith into adulthood. Moving away from fun as the goal of children's ministry, Ivy Beckwith examines the culture in which children find themselves and offers ideas that will keep them engaged now while preparing them for what's to come. This is an excellent resource and a must for any children's pastor or worker that wants to reach the next generation. Within these pages, you'll discover ways to: develop family and intergenerational worship, use spiritual disciplines and ancient practices with children, worship effectively with preschoolers, create meaningful service projects for children and families, build positive peer communities, engage children as full participants in community. Plus, you'll travel to places and meet people who are changing children's ministry. Hear stories about what's working, what isn't, what issues are peering over the horizon, and ways to prepare for the future.
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 Mentoring Millennials: Shaping the Next Generation
Dr. Daniel Egeler
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The Millennial generation is unlike any other. Born after 1980, they don't know the world before computers, videos, or MTV. They are optimistic, desire rules and boundaries, and support tradition and values. A passionate group, they long to commit to a cause. However, they cannot make it alone. They need guidance and direction from people who care. They need to hear your stories - both success and failures. In this book, Dr. Daniel Egeler provides a framework to help older generations reach out to end and teach the next generation through examples as simple as sharing stories and experiences or as deep as lifelong commitments.
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 Postmodern Bible Stories: Sunday School Never Looked Like This
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Whether you're a believer or a non-believer, a conservative or liberal, a carnivore or vegan, we all have a Bible lying somewhere within our homes. The Good Book is, by far, the most-owned book of all time though interestingly it is probably the least read. The Bible shows up everywhere in our culture, from our everyday language, to the laws we abide by and the entertainment that amuses us.In Postmodern Bible Stories that tradition continues. Some of the best illustrators and designers in the world contribute their interpretations of those familiar Scripture passages we often take for granted. Along with the illustrations, you'll find brief insights from the artists about the subject matter, and more than a work of art, understand that this is also a spiritual conversation. Ultimately, Postmodern Bible Stories is Scripture like you've never seen it before.
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 Emerging Hope: A Strategy for Reaching Postmodern Generations
Jimmy Long
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Is there hope in this era of cynicism? Jimmy Long, a campus minister for more that twenty-five years, is convinced that we are in the middle of a societal hurricane. As our culture moves further into postmodernity, now is the time of enormous and rapid change. How do we "do church" in such an era? How do we reach the lost? How do we communicate hope? In this book Long traces the connections between postmodernism and the emerging generations--Generation X and the millennial generations--highlighting implications for evangelism and discipleship. What emerges is a compelling strategy for ministry that will appeal to a generation starved for a sense of belonging.
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 The Spectacle of Worship in a Wired World
Tex Sample
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Examining the three central elements of electronic culture the author demonstrates that for those steeped in this culture, meaning arises from the convergence of these elements rather than from any one of them individually. He goes on to discuss how these are already present in Christian worship and how they might be made more evident. In adition, he explains that worship can serve as a corrective to electronic culture and concludes the book with suggestions on how to build worship around an awareness of this new kind of human perception.
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 Truth Decay
Douglas Groothuis
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The concept of absolute truth has eroded over time. Groothuis demonstrates that the basic tenets of postmodernism are intellectually flawed and hostile to Christian views. In this biblical and logical presentation, he unveils how truth has come under attack and how it can be defended in the areas of theology, apologetics, ethics, and the arts. 212 pages, softcover from InterVarsity.
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 A Primer on Postmodernism
Stanley J. Grenz
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What is postmodernism? What is postmodernity? More importantly, how does each one affect the church at the beginning of the twenty-first century? If these are questions you have been asking, this book will help. Stanley Grenz is a well-respected author and theology professor who has extensively studied postmodernism (the emerging worldview) and postmodernity (the context in which postmodernism is dominant). He offers this aptly named primer on the major tenets and socio-cultural implications of the epochal changes occurring in our society in the early stages of the twenty-first century.
Grenz defines postmodernism, and traces its history from the late 1800s (Nietzsche offered some very viable criticisms of modernity before his death in 1900) through to the present, looking at the three major authors and thinkers who have shaped it. The three authors are Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Richard Rorty, whose writings are the de facto philosophy at many universities in America. While their philosophy is only a part of postmodernism, it can't be ignored when looking at the movement as a whole.
One of the most important aspects for understanding postmodernism is placing it within the context of late modernity. The best definition of postmodernism is a radical distancing from modern philosophies about truth and knowledge, so Grenz examines some of the major tenets of modernity as well. He then juxtaposes the changes occurring in postmodernism onto existing modern concepts, offering a clear, understandable look at what postmodernism is really about.
Thoroughly documented and extremely relevant, this primer will meet the needs of Christians at all levels, from Sunday School to higher education. More importantly, it will begin the process of helping the church truly learn how best to embody the principles and truth of the gospel in our new cultural setting, that of postmodernity. If we cling to the remaining vestiges of modernity, Grenz feels the church will become completely irrelevant. Understanding what postmodernism is will help us toretain and improve our relevance, and will enable us to reach out with the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ.
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 BJU What is Truth? Student Text (Updated Copyright)
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Creatively presented in story format, this comparative worldview study will teach your students to defend their Christian beliefs against the claims of competing worldviews. The course covers the history and basic tenets of Hinduism, Buddhism, secular humanism, postmodernism, and Christianity. 160 pages, softcover. Grades 11-12. This resource is also known as Bob Jones' "What is Truth?" Student Worktext with updated copyright.
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 Postmodernism 101: A First Course for the Curious Christian
Heath White
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In this brief and highly accessible introductory work, Heath White paints the historical and philosophical background underlying postmodernism in understandable, but not oversimplified, language. Exploring the differences between premodern, modern, and postmodern thought White describes what postmodernism means to our view of self, language, thought, the search for knowledge, and culture. Ultimately, White encourages Christians to face the postmodern world with hope and courage without fear. White's down-to-earth approach invites Christians who otherwise might have avoided postmodern theorizing into this important dialogue, while also providing vital information for those already engaged in the conversation. His questions for further thought after each chapter and suggestions for further reading provide a journey for readers beyond the text.
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 OMG: A Youth Ministry Handbook
Kenda Creasy Dean, ed.
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Oh My God: A Youth Ministry Handbook includes the reflections of six scholars and pastors who have spent their careers contributing to the field of adolescent spiritual formation. Between them they have logged more than 150 years of hands-on-ministry with teenagers and emerging adults.
The first book in the Youth and Theology series, it represents an early attempt to "pin down the corners" of adolescent discipleship formation as an emerging discipline by naming key themes and stating their significance for a church that longs to share Christ with young people who inhabit, and largely embrace, a frankly secular, postmodern culture.
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 Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture: Bridging Teen Worldviews and Christian Truth
Walt Mueller
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Before we can reach today's youth with the truth of the gospel, we need to see what they see and hear what they hear. We need to catch the messages encrypted in their culture and understand what's really being communicated.
In Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture Walt Mueller (Understanding Today's Youth Culture), founder and president of the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding, helps us to navigate the troubling and confusing terrain of teen worldviews so that we can effectively and compassionately pass along good news: our God is their God, our Savior can be their Savior.
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 Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought & Culture
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
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The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun.Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs. Human life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plant life. All social relationships, all institutions, all moral values are expressions and masks of the primal will to power. Alarmingly, these ideas have gripped the nation's universities, which turn out today's lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers, and other culture-shapers. Through society's influences, postmodernist ideas have seeped into films, television, art, literature, politics; and, without his knowing it, into the head of the average person on the street. Christ has called us to proclaim the gospel to a culture grappling with postmodernism. We must understand our times. Then, through the power that Christ gives, we can counter the prevailing culture and proclaim His sufficiency to our society's very points of need. "While pundits wring their hands over the radicalism of political correctness, speech codes, and outrageous art, Gene Edward Veith takes unerring aim at the intellectual roots of it all. The most important book for anyone who wants to know what's behind the political correctness movement." --Chuck Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship
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 Postmodern Pilgrims
Leonard Sweet
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Must Christianity adapt its message to make it attractive to the postmodern generation? Or is it simply the medium of the message which must change? If you are struggling with these questions, Postmodern Pilgrims is the book for you.
Leonard Sweet has written numerous books discussing how the church can interact with and transform postmodern culture. In Postmodern Pilgrims he argues that a better understanding of the first century church will allow the twenty-first century church to truly reach and affect the postmodern world. Sweet deals effectively with the tension between tradition and innovation, proving that a strong historical foundation is the best way to propel the church into the future, the postmodern future.
Sweet focuses on four aspects of postmodernism, offering hints on how to translate the language of the good news into the language spoken by postmoderns. The first aspect is that postmoderns are experiential. Information, for the postmodern, is important only in how it is felt or experienced. The second aspect is participation. Postmoderns act in an interdependent, interactive way, preferring participation over simple observation. The third aspect is that postmoderns are image-driven. Images generate emotions, and for postmoderns, emotions are the key. The fourth aspect is connection/community. Postmoderns have combined the words connection and community into connexity because they are both so important to them after the futile pursuit of individuality.
Understand these four aspects of postmodernism, Sweet says, and you will be able to witness to them and to effect transformation in their lives. Sweet includes practical advice and Web sites for more information and interaction. Meet the postmoderns where they are and give them the experience of a lifetime. Give them the experience of God's love.
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 Is It a Lost Cause? Having the Heart of God for the Church's Children
Marva J. Dawn
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How can we help the church's children not to make the same choices as the children of the dominant culture around them concerning their sexuality, their use of money and time, their attitudes toward work and life? Is it still possible in our post-Christian, post-modern society to raise children with Christian faith and moral character? In this sensitive and astute work, Marva Dawn insists that forming genuinely Christian children is NOT a lost cause if congregations, pastors, and parents wake up to the present crisis of a society at odds with the gospel and to the crucial need for deliberate formative efforts and intensive discipleship in home and church.
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 What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church - eBook
John D. Caputo
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Many in the church who are wrestling with ministry in a postmodern era would view deconstruction as a negative aspect of the postmodern movement. But John Caputo, one of the leading philosophers of religion in America and a leading voice on religion and postmodernism, sees it differently. In this lively and provocative analysis, he argues that in his own way Jesus himself was a deconstructionist and that applying deconstruction to the church can be a positive move toward renewal. Caputo's lucid writing makes difficult concepts accessible, resulting in an appropriate text for undergraduate or graduate classes in philosophy, theology, and postmodern ministry. What Would Jesus Deconstruct? includes a foreword by Brian D. McLaren and is the second book in the Church and Postmodern Culture series.
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