Download or read book Reclaiming Our Prodigal Sons and Daughters written by Scott Larson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming our prodigal sons and daughters offers a penetrating portrayal of the rootlessness of many of today's youth and a powerful, four-step plan for reaching them. The unique feature of this book is its accent on the spiritual dimension of contemporary youth problems and on the role that members of faith communities can play in reclaiming youth in conflict.
Download or read book Community Youth Development written by Francisco Villarruel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited text focuses on positive approaches to youth development that are rapidly supplanting the traditional deficit-oriented, problem-reduction approach. The book addresses the question; what does it take to create a community that will promote the positive opportunities that can optimize the development of all young people? The book draws together the perspectives of top names and programs in positive youth development, thus assuring readers of authoritative, cutting-edge coverage.
Download or read book written by Larry Brendtro and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover effective ways of connecting with youth at risk. In this inspiring resource, the authors focus on strength-based alternatives to punishment, including creative ways to develop trusting relationships, search for hidden potential, and instill purpose in students
Download or read book Reclaiming Youth at Risk written by Larry Brendtro and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2009-04-11 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balance of wisdom drawn from Native American philosophies and Western psychology, this book offers a unique perspective for connecting with troubled students. It challenges educators to see youth at risk through new eyes and offers compelling, concrete alternatives for reclaiming them.
Download or read book Parenting Better Children written by Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, MA, LPA and published by PESI Publishing & Media. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenting Better Children is an all-in-one package to manage behavior before it becomes clinically significant. Author Jennifer Wilke-Deaton has gone back to the basics and provides a fresh start to develop a new set of building blocks, detailing an 8-week course that includes straightforward teaching methods, outlines and handouts for skills training, and troubleshooting solutions. · New tools for positive behavioral management and emotional regulation · Recognizing escalation - and what to do about it · Reversing the negative impact of video games and aggressive media · Creating healthy communication · Establishing routines · Strategies keying on CBT and DBT · Effective attachment relationship building between children, parents, school staff · Support planning for children and families that lasts long after group time has ended · Easy to read and highly practical, an invaluable resource for parents, clinicians, school staff and other professionals working with challenging behaviors Reviews: “I love her simple, concrete examples that make even the most complex parent/child interactions accessible and doable.” - Brian R. King, LCSW, author of the Perfect Moments in Relationships: Lessons in Connection for Work, Family, Love, and Life “Weaving together her practical clinical experience and current research, Jennifer provides cleanly organized parenting strategies for both parents and clinicians.” - L.C. Jones, Attorney, Juvenile Specialist “Her step by step “Parenting Course” takes the reader through a well-organized, easy to apply program. A fantastic resource.” - Susan P Epstein, LCSW, Author of 55 Creative Approaches for Challenging & Resistant Children & Adolescents “Jennifer has hit a home-run with this practical blueprint for improving parental success. She has standardized the basics and still managed to leave room for flexibility, so families can adapt lessons to meet needs.” - Hasan Davis, J.D., Former commissioner of Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice and Child and Family Advocate
Download or read book Josh McDowell s Youth Ministry Handbook written by Zondervan, and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the wisdom of insightful leaders around the country, Josh McDowell's Youth Ministry Handbook equips youth workers to help kids connect with God--and with their parents, their peers, and a world in need of Christ. Featuring articles from Dawson McAllister, Barry St. Clair, Jim Burns, Tony Campolo, Al Menconi, John Maxwell, George Barna, and others, this is an invaluable leadership resource with practical, useful ideas for today's youth workers.
Download or read book Reclaiming Our Political Roots written by Yohan Hwang and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that Trump or Democratic rallies garner more enthusiasm than church, and in the process polarize the church? Why is it that corporations like SpaceX or Apple receive similar reactions? The Western church is rapidly shrinking, led by an exodus of millennials, who often find more meaning, values, and community in their political party or their workplace than church. Moreover, our lives have become so fractured that we cannot ascertain any relationship between our work, family, church, the economy, politics, science, or technology. This book argues that the problem is in our allowance of the nation and corporations to be the main providers of justice, healthcare, education, and welfare—goods that the church used to provide. In the process, our lives became fractured as every facet of life was sundered from religious and moral values. But this book argues that, for Christians, the church is our primary political body, not the nation. This is a summons to church leaders, heads of various industries, and anyone who senses the urgency of the above crises to reimagine our very fabric of society so that Christ and his church may have their proper place once again.
Download or read book The Least of These written by Ron Ruthruff and published by New Hope Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through concrete detail, current statistics, and qualitative insights from more than 25 years living among and ministering globally to youth mired in tough and dangerous street life, Ron Ruthruff provides a tried model for serving not only troubled youth but others as well. Ruthruff tells stirring, biblically relevant stories of the real young people whom he and his family have loved and served—and what these kids have taught him in return about truly Christ-centered ministry. These stirring stories compel us to reach the least, the last, and the lost, and to appreciate what they can teach us as well. Readers will hear the voice of Job from the hospital bed of a heroin addict, read the story of the demoniac in Mark 5 from the perspective of an “untouchable” in an orphanage in Bombay, India, and discover that the children who sit on our city streets around the world are not just a problem to be solved, but have the potential to become some of our greatest teachers in both their depravity and their dependence on God.
Download or read book Ministry with Youth in Crisis Revised Edition written by Harley T. Atkinson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ministry with Youth in Crisis is a comprehensive treatment of major adolescent crises related to life themes including self-identity, faith formation, family life, social relationships, sexuality, suicide, substance abuse, and eating disorders. The distinctiveness of this book is that it offers a fine blend of solid research, workable theory, and specific strategies for successfully ministering to and with youth in crisis. Furthermore, it emphasizes the caring and sensitive side of working effectively with adolescents experiencing both normal and extreme crisis situations. This volume, therefore, is both descriptive and prescriptive in nature, in that it describes the world teens live in and offers biblical responses for ministry.
Download or read book Creating A Safe harbor written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parenting with Kingdom Purpose written by Kenneth S. Hemphill and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What if we raise our children to gain the world but in the process they forfeit their souls?” ask the writers of Parenting with Kingdom Purpose (True Love Waits founder Richard Ross and best-selling author Ken Hemphill). Indeed, children are a constant reminder of God’s goodness. In that light, Christian parents are called to celebrate and nurture the unique personality traits and talents of each precious one with a gracious and eternal perspective. Yet studies indicate 70 percent of teenagers from evangelical homes will drop out of church within two years after high school graduation. What the world has to offer will win their closer attention. Parenting with Kingdom Purpose looks at Bible teaching and the recent National Study of Youth and Religion to shape a fresh approach to raising children that cuts through the chaos of modern life and brings families closest to each other and the Lord.
Download or read book PRODIGAL SONS DAUGHTERS written by John C. Burt and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book all about prodigal sons and daughters and how we should relate to them. Also how they are viewed by Father God and how he awaits their homecoming to Him.
Download or read book Building Successful Partnerships written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide presents useful research findings and best practice information about developing parent and family involvement programs. The first chapter focuses on reporting research findings on parent involvement and highlights pertinent findings on how parent involvement benefits students, parents, teachers, school quality, and program designs. Chapters 2 through 7 each focus on a specific program standard for establishing quality parent and family involvement programs. These are: (1) communicating; (2) parenting; (3) student learning; (4) volunteering; (5) school decision making and advocacy; and (6) collaborating with the community. Chapter 8 focuses on important issues to consider when developing parent involvement programs, including overcoming barriers and knowing how to reach out to key players. Chapter 9 examines three important activities for program development, and chapter 10 summarizes the main ideas in the guide. Four appendixes contain a National PTA position statement on parent and family involvement, parent and faculty survey responses, forms and worksheets for program implementation, and a list of resources. (Contains 60 references.) (SLD)
Download or read book The Prodigal Returns Reclaiming Our Wayward written by Dr Ernest T. Davis and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every believer has been or knows someone who fulfills one of the roles in the parable of the prodigal son. It is inevitable that we will meet the Prodigal Son in our walk as a Christian. Have we thoroughly delved into the parable as to understand the many facets of the prodigal's life? Or have we preconceived a notion as to only the prodigal needing ministry and restoration? An article published in Christianity Today on June 20, 2012 states, "Tragically, many teens and young adults reject Christianity in part because of the spiritual dysfunction they witnessed within their own homes." Are we prepared for the possible going out and the probable return of our prodigals?
Download or read book Reclaiming Youth at Risk written by Larry K. Brendtro and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the book by the same title, the Reclaiming Youth at Risk video workshop takes viewers inside two schools and two residential treatment centers that have experienced great success in creating environments that allow young people to transfrom crisis into opportunity and failure into success.
Download or read book Religion Politics and Reclaiming the Soul of Christianity written by Jon Canas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God’s unconditional love is the quintessential element, the heart and soul of the teachings of Jesus Christ. The rise of modern American Christian fundamentalism, with its narrowly defined moralism and zeal to impose its restrictive views on all Americans, attacks our country’s democracy. Today’s Christian fundamentalists energize exclusionary right-wing politics, embolden xenophobia, and in the process abandon the very roots of their own religious tradition. The author takes a comprehensive look at the origins, characters, and spiritual essence that shaped Christianity. In three sweeping sections, he traces the evolution of Christian dogma and its use for political purpose, the rise in consciousness from Law to Grace, the derailment of the authentic “Good News” message of Jesus Christ, and finally the necessity for our actions as modern Christians to be coherent with our beliefs. His book is an urgent invitation to reclaim and return the soul of Christianity to its loving heart.
Download or read book Do You Want to Be Healed written by Bob Schuchts and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Do you want to be healed?” Jesus asks that question several times in the Bible—of the woman at the well, Bartimaeus the blind man, the woman caught in adultery, the rich young man—and he asks the same of you as well. Do You Want to Be Healed? is a 10-day personal retreat that uses a healing process similar to the one found in the author Bob Schuchts’s bestselling book Be Healed. Each day of the do-it-yourself retreat engages you with a question Jesus asked his followers and uses the traditional practice of lectiodivina (divine reading) to dive into a scriptural scene where Jesus heals the spiritually and physically sick. Through the five movements of reading, meditation, prayer, contemplation, and action, you will encounter the biblical figures who received the healing words of Jesus, you will undergo your own spiritual healing and discover your personal response to Jesus’s most probing questions, including: Do you want to be made well? What are you thinking in your heart? Has no one condemned you? Can you drink the cup? Have you come to believe? and Do you love me more than these? Through these questions and the healing answering them brings about, you will come to understand the principles of spiritual healing—such as facing your brokenness, acknowledging your sin and shame, and discovering the healing power of the sacraments—Schuchts shares in Be Healed. Those who have already read Be Healed will be drawn deeper into their healing with a refresher on the core principles of Schuchts’s work. The book is also perfect for those who want to begin the process of spiritual healing. Do You Want to Be Healed? also is an essential resource for pastors, spiritual directors, therapists, and those who help lead others in an integration of their human and spiritual formation.
