Day: August 10, 2015

All Things New: Three Words that Should be Banned in your Youth Room

All Things New: Three Words that Should be Banned in your Youth Room

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We’re in the process of redoing the youth room at the church I serve at. The youth have been without a designated room for a few years, so we’re converting one of the other rooms back into a youth room. This involves picking paint and other decorations, which is not one of my spiritual gifts, and thinking about a whole host of other things that could  go in there. One of these items is to think about youth room rules. How many rules do you have? Is 10 rules (or let’s call them “commandments” for effect) enough? Or should...

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What Is Going On Up There?: Adolescent Brain Development

What Is Going On Up There?: Adolescent Brain Development

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Adolescence is its own animal of a time period in the life of a person compared with childhood, emerging adulthood, adulthood and late adulthood. The complexity of adolescence is astounding! Cognitive, emotional, psychological, physical and sexual identity development is all going on in a matter of seven to six years (ages 11-18), which will then slow down through the late teens to early twenties. All of this development happens at varying rates for girls and boys. Researchers, schools and youth workers typically define adolescence as the ages between 12 and 18 or the middle and high school years. The...

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Devotion: Sanitizing Death

Devotion: Sanitizing Death

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“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33 ESV). There are some days, weeks, months, when I feel robbed of words, when my creativity comes to a pause, when I feel acutely and numbly at the same time. A few weeks ago I had a week like that. It was a convergence of bad news. My college roommate, who now lives in Cambodia, shared the news that his mother-in-law has been infected with HIV by a...

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