Discipling Resource
 
Youth Resources 
NPH Resources for Youth
 
Love in Action - Downladable Bible Study - Ten lessons to assist students with developing a proper understanding of compassion.
 
It's Your Call: Deal with It - Downladable Bible Study - A 12-lesson unit that helps youth understand God's call in their lives and teaches them how to live out that call.
 
Open for Service - Downladable Bible Study - Eleven lessons which help teens grow in their understanding and experience of missions work. 
 
Get a Lifestyle! Becoming a Global Christian - Downladable Bible Study - A 12-lesson unit that studies the concept of Jesus' Incarnation and our responsibility for reaction and imitation. 
 
Reflection: Constructing an Incarnational Reality - Downladable Bible Study - Help students understand what it means to live incarnationally and how they can live incarnationally themselves.
 
 

 
 
Understanding Youth Culture
These resources are available at your local Christian bookstore or online.
 
 Hurt, Inside the World of Today's Teenager  by Chap Clark
Contemporary adolescents seem confident, well-adjusted, and happy. But beneath the surface, they're often lonely, insecure, and empty. What's going on? Claiming that adults have "abandoned" teens just when they most need support, Clark's ethnographic study examines today's changing youth culture from the inside out and suggests five strategies to "turn the tide of systemic abandonment."

 
 
 All Grown Up and No Place to Go  by David Elkind
In All Grown Up and No Place to Go, David Elkind methodically maps out teenagehood for his readers in three parts. In the first section he details bodily and emotional changes that take place within the young person, illustrating his observations with popular young adult literature, interviews and personal experiences. In the second section he turns to the growing obstacles that face youth in these changing times. Finally, in the third and final section Elkind cleverly identifies the physical, social, emotional and familial results stress causes in the lives of young people growing up in America.
 
 
 Youth Culture 101  by Walt Mueller
CPYU President Walt Mueller's critically acclaimed book, Understanding Today's Youth Culture, is widely recognized as one of the most thorough and comprehensive overviews of youth culture today. This Gold Medallion Book Award winner is used as a seminal text in colleges, universities, and seminaries around the world, but is especially noted for its honest and easy to read style. The book approaches youth culture from a distinctively Christian perspective and contains chapters on a variety of topics including: music, media, sexuality, materialism, drugs and alcohol, and spirituality. A great resource for parents, educators, youth workers, and pastors. 
 
 
 Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture  by Walt Mueller
Before we can reach today’s youth with the truth of the gospel, we need to see what they see and hear what they hear.  We need to catch the messages encrypted in their culture and understand what’s really being communicated.  In Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture Walt Mueller, founder and president of the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding, helps us to navigate the troubling and confusing terrain of teen world views so that we can effectively and compassionately pass along good news:  our God is their God, our Savior can be their Savior.