Being a youth worker means being more than a babysitter or a chaperone. It means walking with teenagers through the exciting and challenging times, the highs and lows of the teenage years. Approaching ministry with this mindset means you will find yourself in a wide range of significant moments in students' lives. Are you prepared? Veteran youth worker Matt Murphy and seminary professor Brad Widstrom have teamed up to write 99 Thoughts on Caring for Your Youth Group and offer a wealth of practical tools, tips, and techniques to help you become a youth worker who is equipped to care for teenagers from the coffee house to the crisis moments. Their thoughts are divided into five categories: <ul>
<li>Created to Care (Who You Are As a Caregiver)</li> <li>Skilled to Care (Equipping Yourself As Caregiver)</li> <li>Caring Lifestyle (Routine Care)</li> <li>Specific Interventions (Significant Issues)</li> <li>Skilled Response (Crisis Moments)</li>
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 Investing in your role as a caregiver will multiply your impact in the lives of teenagers, free you to know that God will strengthen you during difficult ministry moments, and encourage you to see yourself as someone who can make a lasting difference.

99 Thoughts on Caring for Your Youth Group: From Coffee Shop Counseling to Crisis Care

Religion & Spirituality

Murphy, Matt

Widstrom, Brad

Christian Books & Bibles

Simply Youth Ministry

The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Hyperion Avenue

Wrestling legend Tony Atlas once said, "When a wrestler walked down the street thirty years ago, people said, 'Either he's a wrestler or the circus is in town.'" It was a tough man's business, protected by a code of secrecy. Today, many pro wrestlers look like the kid who delivers your morning newspaper and even casual fans know many of wrestling's inner workings. The evolution of professional wrestling has allowed wannabes easy access into the business and little hope for success, until now. The Professional Wrestler in the World of Sports-Entertainment by Matt Murphy provides current and aspiring wrestlers a guiding light in their pursuits of wrestling stardom.

The Professional Wrestler in the World of Sports-entertainment

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Createspace Independent Pub

Australia and its formation - through the distorted view of a rum bottle. Could the Rum Rebellion have been averted if Major Johnston wasn't hungover? Would the Eureka Stockade have been different if the rebels weren't pissed? How were prisoners to get drunk if Macquarie closed the only pub in the gaol? And why should sailors under fourteen be deprived of their sixteen shots of rum per day? These are just some of the questions raised in Matt Murphy's account of Australia's colonial history. Brimming with detailed research and irreverent character sketches, Rum looks at not just how much was drunk in colonial Australia (a lot!), but also the lengths people went to get their hands on it, the futile efforts of the early governors to control it, and the often disastrous and/or absurd consequences of its consumption. Those consequences aren't just in our past. Murphy goes beyond foundation stories to look at the legacy our love affair with alcohol has created, from binge drinking to lockout laws and from prohibition to urinating on the parliamentary carpet. So here's to Rum, for making bad decisions look like a good idea at the time.

Rum: A Distilled History of Colonial Australia

Science Fiction & Fantasy

HarperCollins AU

The original incarnation of the classic hero Doctor Solar - Man of the Atom springs to life in this newly remastered collection of classic stories from comic geniuses Paul S. Newman and Matt Murphy, reprinted for the first time in nearly thirty years. Fans of Russ Manning, Mac Raboy, or Alex Raymond will be delighted with artist Bob Fujitani's original depiction of this classic hero in all his radioactive glory. True fans of the golden age of sci-fi comics will not be disappointed with the newest addition to Dark Horse's line of classic science fiction titles.

Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom Volume 1

Comics & Graphic Novels

Newman, Paul S.

Graphic Novels

Dark Horse

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