Student-Resources

• Suggested Reading:

  • Parenting Teens

  • Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp

  • Instructing a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp

  • Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens by Paul Tripp

  • The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict by Ken Sande

  • Peacemaking for Families: A Biblical Guide to Managing Conflict in Your Home by Ken Sande

  • Treasuring God in Our Traditions by Noel Piper

  • Family Worship: In the Bible, In History, and In Your Home by Donald S. Whitney

  • Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical

  • Feminism edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem

  • Girl Talk: Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood by Carolyn Mahaney

  • Modeling Modesty by Mary Mohler - http://www.albertmohler.com/documents/ModelingModesty.pdf

  • Modesty Heart Check - http://girltalk.blogs.com/girltalk/files/modesty_heart_check3.pdf

  • Other Books

  • Don’t Waste Your Life: John Piper – Warning: Piper brings it! Teenagers who read this book could live radically for Christ.

  • The Pursuit of Holiness: Jerry Bridges – A classic book, great for teenagers wanting to develop a devotion time! 

  • Spiritual Disciplines For the Christian Life: Donald Whitney – Another great devotional resource! 

  • Stop Dating the Church: Joshua Harris – Every student should be required to read this before they graduate high school.

  • If God is Good…Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil: Randy Alcorn – This book is easy to understand and deals with big questions. 

  • Hard to Believe: John MacArthur – The true gospel, put simply and boldly!

  • Ashamed of the Gospel: John MacArthur – Every young person on the planet should read this book!

  • Battle for the Beginning: John MacArthur – This book exposes the faulty beliefs of Evolution by giving you a Biblical explanation of how the universe really began! 

  • Passion and Purity: Elizabeth Elliot – This book powerfully lays out how a woman is to live for Christ in today’s world. Whether single or married this book is extremely helpful!

  • Crazy Love: Francis Chan

  • Radical: David Platt

  • On The Web

  • Got Questions? | www.gotquestions.org
    An easy to use site that contains answers to thousands of theological and biblical questions. A great resource to have on hand when high schoolers ask you random questions like, "Why didn't Jesus come as a woman?"

  • Bible Gateway | www.biblegateway.com
    Need to look up verses, but don't have a Bible around? Bible Gateway has over 50 translations and an easy to use concordance for all your referencing needs.

  • Desiring God | www.desiringgod.org
    Sermons, notes and articles from Dr. John Piper.

  • The Resurgence | www.theresurgence.com
    The Resurgence is a movement that resources multiple generations to live for Jesus so that they can effectively reach their cities with the gospel by staying culturally accessible and biblically faithful.

  • The Source for Youth Ministry | www.thesource4ym.com
    Great resource website full of ice-breakers, games, helpful articles and even a slang dictionary.

  • The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding | www.cpyu.org
    A one-stop shop for all things related to youth culture. This website keeps a close ear to the heartbeat of youth culture trends and happenings. You'll find tons of great articles and research all about teens and how they are affected by culture.

  • Fuller Youth Institute | www.fulleryouthinstitute.org
    Tons of research and articles about teens and how to effectively minister to them.

  • Youth Worker | www.youthworker.com
    The online version of Youth Worker Magazine. It's a great site for anyone who works with teens.

  • Plugged In | www.pluggedin.com