By Jim Walton. Youth Alpha involves a little more work than its adult counterpart. You can't turn on a videotape and expect the young people to "tune in". One has to "create" the Youth Alpha talk and session from the outline given in the Leader's Manual. … Read more
Teen Trends: A Nation in Motion, by R. W. Bibby & D. C. Posterski
Reviewed by Jim Walton. The book outlines the extent of the change that has taken place in what was once familiar in our culture, and gives parents, educators, pastors, people in the media, and other significant adults practical advice and steps to take in responding to the trends. … Read more
Learn to Discern, by R.G. De Moss, Jr.
Reviewed by Jim Walton. De Moss’s goal is to teach parents how they may help their children to develop a critical, Christian mind that is able to sift through the mixed messages given by the seductive and influential power of the television, movie, advertising, and music industries. … Read more
Parenting Adolescents, by Kevin Huggins
Reviewed by Jim Walton. Adolescence represents the parent’s second chance to influence the spiritual development of their teen because teens must cast off old strategies for relating to life and adopt new strategies of relating. … Read more
Evangelism: A Way of Life, by Rebecca Pippert and Ruth Siemens
Reviewed by Jim Walton. This book is a compilation of twelve inductive Bible studies to help with discovering and understanding a biblical perspective of evangelism and integrating it into one’s lifestyle. … Read more
Evangelism For Our Generation, by Jim Petersen
Reviewed by Jim Walton. Believers must make it their priority to make the spiritual climate of the society in which they live to work in favour of the growth of the gospel rather than allowing it to isolate themselves from the people they are attempting to reach. … Read more
Liberating the Laity: Equipping All the Saints for Ministry, by R. Paul Stevens
Reviewed by Jim Walton. The book has two basic strands to it: 1. the author’s personal pilgrimage in developing a healthy concept of lay ministry, and 2. instruction – both practical and theological – aimed at liberating the laity for ministry. … Read more



