Auteur: James C. Howell

This handbook promotes a comprehensive strategy founded on evidence-based programming for juvenile justice systems to adopt or enhance their current system. The comprehensive strategy is supported st …

Music is such an important part of Advent and Christmas. Can you imagine Advent without ‘O Come, O Come, Emmanuel’? How about Christmas without carols like ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem, ‘ ‘Silent Nigh …

Take spirituality into the real world. Jesus didn’t ‘become flesh’ so we could feel different. He came to this world so we will be different. Often our spirituality seems invisible and mute to a hurt …

The Second Edition of Preventing and Reducing Juvenile Delinquency: A Comprehensive Framework aims to inform students about the latest research and the most promising and effective programs and provi …

The public believes that juveniles are to blame for the growth of violence in the United States that began in the mid-1980s. But, whoÆs really to blame for violent crime? Is youth gang involvement in …

This book is an historical account of the emergence of youth gangs and the transformation of these into street gangs in the United States. The author traces the emergence of these gangs in the four m …

This revised edition features updated research, new developments in technology, and recent policy on juvenile delinquency and youth violence. The authors underscore the enormous payoff in targeting p …

What does it look and feel like to be worshipful? Can we find a way to worship in such a robust, thoughtful way that when we aren’t in worship, the worship might linger and invigorate us? Is it possi …

‘[Gangs in America′s Communities] is one of the most comprehensive treatments of gangs in the marketplace. . .  . I highly recommend its adoption as you will not be disappointed and, most import …

‘[Gangs in America′s Communities] is one of the most comprehensive treatments of gangs in the marketplace. . .  . I highly recommend its adoption as you will not be disappointed and, most import …

Struck from Behind is a memoir–but not the usual narrative of events. James Howell tells intriguing stories from childhood, romantic life, travel, friendships, tragedies, and wonders, and how God wa …

Using the Apostles’ Creed as the “primary text” this book explores what we believe as Christians and how those beliefs are relevant today. The author’s goal is to help pastors educate and transform m …

Prayer is not easy, yet learning to pray can be learned. The Beautiful Work of Learning to Pray is a brief but probing guide into the life of prayer. James Howell examines the many barriers to prayer …

In 27 brief lessons on the Holy Spirit, James Howell introduces us to the third person of the Trinity, ’this personal, elusive, invisible, powerful Spirit.’ Who is the Holy Spirit? What is the work o …

If you were able to talk to St. Francis of Assisi, what would you ask him? “Perhaps, ” says James Howell, ” the first question I’d want to ask Francis would be something like this: How did you do it? …

The Bible’s version of leadership is pretty different from—and sometimes alien to—that of the business world. It is also dissimilar from our usual assumptions about what makes a great leader in the c …

This volume explores the connections between our own birth, the experience of having children, and the new birth of the Christian life. Seasoned pastor James Howell offers theological perspectives on …

The art of mentoring, like all great arts, is a grace to be received, a gift to be given, and a skill that can be learned and practiced. This book explores the practice and grace of that art. The pas …

Author James Howell believes in the power of song to teach spiritual truths. “Hymns embed faith into the marrow of the soul, ” he writes. In Unrevealed Until Its Season, Howell takes us on a 40-day j …

This book-containing contributions from scholars who are well-known for their research on gangs, and selected as experts on the assigned topics-examines youth gangs from a developmental/life-course p …

This book-containing contributions from scholars who are well-known for their research on gangs, and selected as experts on the assigned topics-examines youth gangs from a developmental/life-course p …

‘[Gangs in America’s Communities] is one of the most comprehensive treatments of gangs in the marketplace. . .  . I highly recommend its adoption as you will not be disappointed and, most importantly …

How are we to know the will of God? In this honest discussion, veteran pastor and theologian James C. Howell considers a number of issues relating to God’s will, how it is known, how it is done, and …

This wonderful devotional book will stimulate both mind and heart. Howell provides contexts for the selected verses and draws from a wide range of sources to illuminate their meaning for Christian fa …

There is no doubt that the task of preaching can sometimes be overwhelming. Combining veteran wisdom, practicality, and a contagious reverence for the beauty of God’s Word, veteran pastor James C. Ho …

Veteran pastor James C. Howell skillfully unpacks one of the most powerful verses in the Old Testament, Micah 6:8: ‘What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to w …

Location matters. Christianity isn’t a batch of spiritual thoughts or metaphysical truths. It’s a journey of real people with their feet on the ground in real places. In Everywhere Is Jerusalem, Jame …

Location matters. The Leader Guide contains discussion questions and session plans for a six-week study of Everywhere Is Jerusalem, by James C. Howell. It includes opening and closing prayers, option …