It seems impossible to have reasonable dialogue in today’s political landscape. But can our teens step up and break the cycle of division they’ve seen in their parents’ generation? Maybe Tim McGraw’s country song ,“Always be humble and kind,” should be our temporary National Anthem. The passages in the document below, if applied … [Read more...]
REVIEW: Slaying Biblical Illiteracy
The ministry of teen Bible engagement is a complex matrix of considerations: over-churched vs. under-churched, middle school vs. high school, spiritually engaged vs. spiritually apathetic, and the list goes on. It’s a ministry that can use all the tools it can get. The small book by Matt Andrews, Slaying Biblical Illiteracy … [Read more...]
Flippin’ Over Philippians!
In your discipleship planning, have you ever thought something like this? Let’s study Philippians just because it’s Philippians. Think about that. No cool theme or provocative issue. Just…simply…Philippians. Here’s why that could be our best discipleship planning method yet: It shows that we trust that God has … [Read more...]
Bible Study According to Peanuts
Maybe you saw this Peanuts comic strip last week. Or, if you’re a seasoned youth ministry vet, maybe you saw this Peanuts comic strip when it originally ran in 1969. I was around, but I wasn’t yet reading Peanuts. Peanuts’ creator, Charles Schulz, passed away in 2000. Had he still been with us, he might have revised the strip … [Read more...]
Can Jesus’ Prayer in John 17 Help Us?
Can Jesus' Prayer in John 17 Help Us? What was the unity for which Jesus was praying in John 17 and can it help today? If we believers could get our unity act together in our little world, could we change our bigger world? The thing is, would we know what Jesus-grade unity is if we saw it? We tend to focus on … [Read more...]
Making Sense of Suffering
The disciples asked the question for us: Why did this happen? In John 9 Jesus and his disciples passed by a man blind since birth. His disciples asked Jesus, ““Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” It was actually a legitimate question in that Jewish tradition taught at the time that … [Read more...]
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