Suggested Reading
Growing Young, Six Essential Strategies to Help Young People Discover and Love Your Church, Kara Powell, Jake Mulder, and Brad Griffin
Good Faith, Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme, David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
You Lost Me. Why Young Christians are Leaving Church…and Rethinking Faith, David Kinnaman
Generational IQ, Haydn Shaw
Sticky Faith, Everyday Ideas to Build Faith in Your Kids, Dr. Kara E. Powell and Dr. Chap Clark
The Last Christian Generation, Josh McDowell
Almost Christian, What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church, Kenda Creasy Dean
Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation, Andrew Root
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
Finding God in the Ruins, Matt Bays
Youth Culture 101, Walt Mueller
Boundaries with Teens, John Townsend
Apologetics
Why So Many Gods?, Tim Baker and Kate Etue
The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, Josh McDowell
The Unshakable Truth, How You Can Experience the Twelve Essentials of a Relevant Faith, Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell
The Case for Faith, The Case for the Creator, or The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel
I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek
Unanswered, Lasting Truth for Trending Questions, Jeremiah J. Johnston
The Apologetics Study Bible, Real Questions, Straight Answers, Stronger Faith, Holman Christian Standard Bible
Organizations and Websites
Anchorsaway Ministries: http://www.anchorsaway.org
Anchorsaway is a college-level Christian worldview educational experience targeting high school juniors and seniors and college students.
The mission of Anchorsaway is to instruct, challenge and inspire students and adults to think Christianly in all areas of life, to passionately live out their faith and to love others unconditionally to the glory of God. Several curricula have been written to fulfill this mission. Our hope is, through the work of the Holy Spirit, to develop in students an authentic faith that will bring about personal regeneration, moral revival and cultural restoration.
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries: http://www.rzim.org
The primary mission of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries is to reach and challenge those who shape the ideas of a culture with the credibility of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Distinctive in its strong evangelistic and apologetic foundation, the ministry of RZIM is intended to touch both the heart and the intellect of the thinkers and influencers of society through the support of the visionary leadership of Ravi Zacharias.
CrossExamined.org: http://www.crossexamined.org
CrossExamined.org is a non-profit ministry started in 2006 that conducts dynamic I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be An Atheist seminars on college campuses, churches, and high schools. Led by Frank Turek and other Christian apologists, CrossExamined.org exists to address the problem that 3-out-of-4 Christian youth leave the church while in college, many because they are intellectually skeptical. In addition to I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be An Atheist, CrossExamined.org presenters address other topics faced by young people today.
Reasonable Faith: http://www.reasonablefaith.org
Reasonable Faith aims to provide in the public arena an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising yet gracious Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today, such as:
- the existence of God
- the meaning of life
- the objectivity of truth
- the foundation of moral values
- the creation of the universe
- intelligent design
- the reliability of the Gospels
- the uniqueness of Jesus
- the historicity of the resurrection
- the challenge of religious pluralism
Reasonable Faith features the work of philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig in order to carry out its three-fold mission:
- to provide an articulate, intelligent voice for biblical Christianity in the public arena.
- to challenge unbelievers with the truth of biblical Christianity.
- to train Christians to state and defend Christian truth claims with greater effectiveness.
Read more: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/about-reasonable-faith#ixzz4rRpDchxA