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Kevin Johnson
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Total Devotion
(Bethany House Publishers)
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Kevin Johnson is the bestselling
author of more than a twenty books for youth, including
Can I Be a Christian Without Being Weird?. He is
currently the youth pastor at Christ Community Church in
Bloomington, MN. He has been a full-time author and speaker,
served as senior editor for adult nonfiction at Bethany
House Publishers and pastored a group of more than four
hundred sixth through ninth graders at Elmbrook Church in
metro Milwaukee.
While his training includes an M.Div. from Fuller
Theological Seminary and a B.A. in English and Print
Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, his
current interests include cycling, guitar, and shortwave
radio. Kevin and his wife, Lyn, live in Minnesota with their
three children—Nate, Karin, and Elise.
For a
complete list of his titles visit his web site at
www.thewave.org.
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Wise Up
Book 2 - Early Teen Discipleship (ETD) series
The Early Teen Discipleship series is great resource for
teens who want to be serious about their faith and develop a
vital, heart-to-heart relationship with the living God. Book
two of this series, Wise Up, guides teens through the
Bible's basic teaching on sin and promotes the present and
eternal values of avoiding it by sticking close to Jesus. It
shows that real wisdom doesn't come from book smarts, but
from knowing and following the example of Jesus. Includes:
25 Bible studies, a removable wallet-sized cards with memory
verses, instructions for optional group use and open ended
questions for discussion.
Bethany House Publishers (2002)
ISBN: 1556616376
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Mission Trip Prep Kit
Headed to inner-city America? Appalachia? A border
shantytown? Overseas? Wherever your destination, the Mission
Trip Prep Kit contains all you need to prepare your students
for an unforgettable cross-cultural experience - and tools
to debrief them after they've returned to their worlds.
In this leader's guide, you'll receive not only the
rationale, the how, and the logistics of planning and
pulling off a missions trip, but, four pre-trip teaching
sessions that will help your students:
--Assess their expectations, their fears, their motivations
--Adjust their perceptions of the culture they'll be working
in
Improve their emotional and spiritual stamina for living for
a week or a month in a very different world from their own
--Practice the skills and attitudes (teamwork, servanthood,
Christ-centeredness) they'll need for a missions trip
And to make sure your trip's goals are accomplished and the
benefits stick around for the long haul, you'll also receive
two post-trip sessions that will help you debrief your
students, ease them back into their own worlds, celebrate
with them, and make missions and ministry part of their
everyday lives with Jesus.
What's more, in these pre- and post-trip teaching sessions
are a variety of activities, processing points, creative
prayer ideas, take-home applications, Bible studies relevant
to missions trips, talk outlines that both instruct and
inspire, and lots of sessions options you can tailor to your
own high schoolers or middle schoolers.
Youth Specialties (2002)
ISBN: 0310244889
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Can I Be a Christian Without Being Weird?
As a Christian you know you're supposed to be different.
But how weird do you have to be?
Jesus doesn't tell Christians to ware strange hats or to
shave their heads. What makes a Christian different from
other people is that he or she is learning to love God
totally and learning to love others unselfishly. Now that is
weird because so few people, kids or adults, follow these
commands of Jesus. In a crowd, a Christian living like Jesus
expects really stands out, and that can be tough.
Bethany House Publishers (1992)
ISBN: 1556612818
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Find Your Fit
co-authored with Jane Kise
Offers direction to a clued-in adult or older teen who is
leading a group through a more structured Find Your Fit
experience. The Leaders's Guide is presented in two
formats-six full-blown sessions or three abbreviated
sessions-allowing leader to adapt the Find Your Fit program
to a group's specific needs.
Bethany House Publishers (1998)
ISBN: 0764221477 |
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