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Roger Olson on Charles Finny

Last Updated May 9, 2009 by Matt 3 Comments

In case you didn’t know, Charles Finny had a profound influence on evangelicalism and American Christianity. It was Finney who popularized the “altar call,” a practice still used to this day. I would put him easily in the top-5, maybe in the top-3 most influential people in the history of American Christianity. In Mosaic of […]

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New Free WordPress Theme Added

Last Updated March 20, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

I added another free theme on my Picking a WordPress Theme post. You might want to check it out. As happens sometimes in life, you don’t do things as early as you had hoped. I didn’t get my next post in the How I Built a Church Website for Free series until late today, and […]

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Best Youth Ministry Books

These are the books that will completely change the way you think about youth ministry, for the better. Links are to my reviews of each book.

Teen 2.0 by Robert Epstein

A psychologist makes you question every assumption you have about adolescence.

Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry by Andrew Root

Why build relationships? Root’s answer will surprise you.

Best Youth Ministry Books: Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher

Yesterday I finally read Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher, and since I’m one of the latecomers to the conversation I won’t summarize the book too much. Marko has linked to tons of reviews on his blog if you are interested in more in-depth summaries. If you are fairly in-tune with a lot of the […]

Best Youth Ministry Books: Postmodern Youth Ministry

Postmodern Youth Ministry by Tony Jones is the book I would recommend to youth ministers if they could just read one youth ministry book. I first read the book in my Foundations and Practices of Youth Ministry class at John Brown University. After the preface to the book there is a page titled, “The Day […]

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