E-zines are one of the best things about the internet.  Let people do your research and send information and illustrations directly to your inbox.  These are the ones we like but we'd love to hear about your favorites and share them with others.

 

• FreeYouthMinistry.com's Monthly Newsletter: Networking youth workers in sharing ideas, lessons and real life resources with each other. Get the latest information and the updates on what's new and free at FreeYouthministry.com


•   Free Youth Ministry Quote of the Week: This Free Youth Ministry quote of the week is brought to you by FreeYouthMinistry.com to provide encouragement and strength for the wonderful and crazy calling of youth ministry.


•   The Youth Specialties Student eMail Newsletter: Each week the newsletter includes a short devotional or thought, links to cool Web sites, humor, and quotes. Then you customize it for your ministry.  I'm partial to this one, since YS got the idea from me and used my archives for about the first year.


• God Laughs Dot Net
  Pastor Rus looks at the humorous side of God. Yes, that's right, God does indeed have a humorous side and that is exactly what GodLaughsDotNet is all about. A humorous look at good clean religious humor. Pastor Rus accepts submissions for God humor, and in turn sends the material out in the form of a Collage making reading quite easy.


• Sports Illustrating God" is a weekly devotional for sports fans. Using stories, headlines, and highlights mostly from football, basketball, baseball, "Sports Illustrating God" connects the world of sports to the Word of God.


•   A Word with You: Transcripts of Ron Hutcraft's daily inspirational broadcast heard each day on over 650 radio outlets across the United States. Ron is the king of object lessons and illustrations, very useful things for your teaching ministry.


•   The Barna Update: a regular e-mail bulletin from Barna Research that informs you about their latest studies. In it, they address the issues related to your ministry that concern you the most. Information that does or could impact your ministry.


•   Breakfast with Fred: Fred Smith, Sr. mentors executives and professional individuals. Zig Ziglar dedicated a recent book to him saying, " He is the best and wisest teacher I have ever met."  For twenty years he has been a contributing editor for Leadership Journal and has authored three books. In other words, whatever Fred writes, you should read.


•   Breakpoint: Commentary by Chuck Colson airs each weekday on over 1,000 outlets with an estimated listening audience of 1 million people. Get news updates and illustrations you can use.


•   CPYU's Youth Culture E-Update:  Center for Parent/Youth Understanding offers a bi-weekly e-mail resource to help you stay current on youth culture trends and developments. This should be a requirement for every youth worker.


•   A. W. Tozer's Insights for Leaders: This daily e-mail is taken from the book, "Tozer on Christian Leadership".


•   Internet for Christians: The best of the best things on the web for Christians who are wired.


•   Youth Ministry Maximizer: Their tag line is "Taking the Guesswork Out of Youth Work." I wish I had a cool tag line like that.  Good stuff, though.


•   Parent Ministry: you will receive weekly email updates about what's new each week on the parentministry.org website. Great interviews that you can use in your ministry.


•   The Pastor's Weekly Briefing: the latest issues affecting the family and the church, this  weekly newsletter has news summaries that can be used in church bulletins, sermons, and Bible studies, provided by Focus on the Family.


•   Teacher Tips by Josh Hunt:  Great newsletter and great ideas for your ministry.


•   Time Management Tips:  The best time management e-newsletter, I've found.


•   Christian Quotes Yahoo e-list: Good quotes from Graham in the UK.


• INTERNET FOR CHRISTIANSInternet for Christians reviews and recommends websites, email lists, news items, and other Internet points of interest to Christians. This IFC digest email collects the stories that we've posted on our website in the past week. You can keep up with the stories as they're postedat INTERNET FOR CHRISTIANS.