40 End Goals Devotion – Sharing Your Story
We love to share stories, but the most important story we can share is God’s story. This devotion encourages us to share God’s story with joy and hope.
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40 End Goals Devotion – When the Story Get’s Tough
Christians will have struggle in their story. This devotion will talk about how God is with us, even when the story is tough.
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Beyond the Flannel Graph: Exploring the Big Picture of the Bible
Kids who grow up in Sunday School are often accustomed to re-visiting the “classic” Bible heroes, which often involves a bit of scattered variety of stories that lend themselves to cute crafts and dramatic puppet shows. This trend works on a short-term basis but our task is to help students see God’s big picture in Scripture and how God continues to use it to impact and influence our lives now.
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40 End Goals Devotion – My Story
Sometimes, I tell the same stories multiple times. But have we thought about how God’s story is central to ours? This devotion helps us think about how to tell Jesus’ story in our story.
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40 End Goals Devotion – The Story of Scripture
Throughout scripture you will find this simple story: God’s creation had turned from Him but His love was greater than their fall. In this devotion we talk about how God’s story is a gift for us.
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What’s the Context?: A Skit and Devo on Reading Scripture
This skit and devotion work together to talk about the importance of context when reading Scripture. The key focus is that God’s Word is a gift that is given to us that should be read in context and not be broken out to prove a point. We hope they help you in exploring these important topics in your youth ministry.
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Making the Law and Gospel Distinction in Youth Ministry
When in the course of our teaching, admonition, and yes, even counseling of the youth in our care, each passage of God’s Word that we utilize can and should be identified properly as conveying Law and/or Gospel. In this article, we talk about how distinguishing between Law and Gospel can impact our relationships with youth and our ability to share God’s Word with them!
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Learning for Life: Encouraging Teens to Experience the Bible
How can we encourage our youth to study the Bible and understand a fraction of its worth?
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Hitting the “Reset” Button
Why wait until the calendar turns the page to start something that we could’ve done now? We don’t have to wait until a big transition or change in order to make a resolution or have a reset.
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All Things New: Three Words that Should be Banned in your Youth Room
We’re in the process of redoing the youth room at the church I serve at. The youth have been...
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All Things New: The Relevant Gospel
Relevancy isn’t found in a certain format, style or way of “doing church” but in the very Word of God being preached, sung, taught and lived out in a way that shows the complete sufficiency of Christ in our lives.
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All Things New: Question-Free Zone
In this latest All Things New blog post, Brandon reminds us of the questions we should be asking and where to find the answers.
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