I’ve written quite a few books over the years for youth workers, parents and teenagers. Here are the ones that are still available and links to sites where you can purchase them:
- Reinventing Youth Ministry Again (InterVarsity Press)
- Generation to Generation (Standard Publishing)
- Engaging Parents as Allies in Youth Ministry (Standard Publishing)
- There’s a Teenager in My House (InterVarsity Press)
- Understanding Your Teenager (Word/UYT)
- Cleared for Takeoff (Word/UYT)
- Play It! (Zondervan)
- Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks (Zondervan)
- Still More Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks (Zondervan)
- Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks, Volume 4 (Zondervan)
- Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks CD-Rom Verson (Zondervan)
- Junior High Ministry Revised and Expanded (Zondervan)
RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON PARENTING BY OTHER AUTHORS:
Here are books on my shelf which I can recommend. Some of these books are no longer in print but you can probably find them on the internet (I didn’t provide links below.)
- Parenting by the Book by John Rosemond (Howard Books 2007) Actually, any John Rosemond book is a good book on parenting.
- Faith Begins at Home by Mark Holmen (Regal Books 2005)
- Confident Parenting by Jim Burns (Bethany House 2006)
- Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World by H. Stephen Glenn (Prima Press 1989)
- Parenting Isn’t For Cowards by James Dobson (Word 1987)
- Raising Responsible Kids by Jay Kesler (Wolgemuth-Hyatt 1991) This book was also published as Raising Emotionally Healthy Teenagers (Word 1998)
- Ties that Stress by David Elkind (Harvard Univ. Press 1994) Elkind’s All Grown Up and No Place to Go (Addison-Wesley 1994) is also a classic.
- Reconnect by Al Menconi (Menconi Ministries 2009)
- Revolutionary Parenting by George Barna (Regal Books 2007)
- The Space Between by Walt Mueller (Zondervan 2008)


