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Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling Special Price

Chris — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:23:05 +0000

I don’t know if you’ve ever checked out this book, Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling: Creating Fictional Stories that Illuminate the Message of Jesus, but I highly recommend it. Story and narrative are my favorite way to teach and this is a great resource to help with that.

From the publisher:

As communicators in a culture saturated with storylines, we have the profound opportunity to invite our students into the masterful Story of God. There are a variety of ways to invite our students into this Story, but this book discusses and explores how to teach through one of Jesus’ most powerful modes of communication–fictional storytelling. Rabbinical storytelling (otherwise known as Jewish Agada) embraces the narrative of Scripture and invites its listeners into understanding and participation. Our Rabbi, Jesus, employed this mode of communication through his parables. Approaching the topic as a theologian, philosopher and artist, Jon invites and teaches how to create modern-day parables that illuminate the message of Jesus. These stories do not simply illustrate the message; they are, in fact, the message. Whether hoping to articulate deep theological concepts or relevant topics, teaching through the art of fictional storytelling has the potential to engage and invite our students into The Story.

In this book:
*You will learn how to create your own fictional stories (modern day parables) that use a realistic setting, engaging characters and a thought provoking plot to communicate a specific topic.

*You are given practical worksheets that offer guidance in developing such stories

*Jon includes a variety of stories he has developed over his years of youth ministry and offers them as a resource to any youth pastor/communicator.

And the best part is right now it’s on sale for $1.99 for the Kindle Edition and iBooks Edition. Hurry, I’m not sure how long this price will last.

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Youth Specialties Black Friday Sale

Chris — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:02:46 +0000

I’m not sure if you did any shopping on Black Friday, but I’ve seen pictures of how crazy the malls were. In fact I saw people camping out at Best Buy 2 days ago. I like a deal as much as the next person, but that’s a little extreme. That’s why i prefer to do my shopping at home. So if you’re like me and you love a great deal on youth ministry resources check out the Youth Specialties Black Friday Sale. Great resources from the Skit Guys, Mark Matlock, Kara Powell and Brad Griffin, Lars Rood, Chuck Bomar, Zach Hunter and more.

I recommend checking it out, while you are eating your sandwich made out of the leftover turkey. It goes through Monday, don’t miss it.

Youth Specialties Black Friday Sale

40% off at SimplyYouthMinistry.com

Chris — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:15:50 +0000

It’s time for the anual 40 40 40 sale at SimplyYouthMinistry.com. You can get 40% off tons of great resources. There’s also $1 off select books. It only lasts for 40 hours so hurry.

There are a couple of other bonuses:

-40 Free Backgrounds – 40 great summer backgrounds for your ministry.

-Win an Ipad – Who doesn’t want this magical device. Just fill out the form to enter. Good Luck!

40% off, 40 Free Backgrounds, and 40 Free Movie Tickets

The 80′s Won’t Die Sale

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:54:54 +0000

Over at SimplyYouthMinistry.com we are having an 80′s won’t die sale. 80 products and you pay 80% (that’s 20% off, get it?). There’s some great stuff. In honor of celebrating the decade of Big Hair we made this video.

WARNING: This video contains a side of Andy Brazelton you may wish you never saw.

Click here to check out the 80/80 Sale.

Mission Trips and Media

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:30:20 +0000

Over at Simply Youth Ministry.com, there’s a great new resource for helping make the most out of your mission trips this summer. Prepare, Go, Live. Here’s a little from it’s description:

Few things will bring the gospel to life for your students like heading out onto the mission field. Spending a day, weekend, or longer in service to God, for his love, and with people in need brings the calling of Christ vividly into focus. With this easy to implement 3-part missions trip curriculum, you’ll get everything you need to get your students ready (Prepare), devotions for the trip (Go), and follow-up materials (Live) to make their experience part of an ongoing, godly lifestyle. And what good would we be if we didn’t include helpful stuff for leaders to make the whole trip more fun for everyone? No good at all, so we’ve given you plenty.

Also in honor of this new resource, over on SimplyInsider.com there’s a contest for the best mission trip stories, and 3 winners will get Flip cams. One of the funnest little cameras to come along in quite awhile.

Also I wanted to let you there’s still a 50% media sale going on. Here are some of my favorites:

Also, use the promo code: PLUGGEDIN to get free shipping on orders over $99.

White Elephant Sale

Chris — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:24:22 +0000

Over at YouthMinistry.com they are having a White Elephant sale. Tons of resources are 40% and there’s specials on the One Minute Bible and Live Bible. Only good till Wed 12/10/08 at 3 PM PST. Stock up before the new year!

There are some great Media products available:

T-minus 1, 2, 3

Power Play 1, 2, 3

Transmit 1, 2

Race This!

Check it out!

Review: Race This! 2