All Devotional articles
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Article
Student Life Application Study Bible
The text is as inspired as ever and with ever new formats for niche groups, that needs saying. We have never had so many tools for Bible study, but had so few Bible students. But this will certainly help. First published in 1988, the Student Life Application ...
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2023 Vision
Recharge is a Bible study just for you, to nurture your own relationship with God. So, before you even look at the rest of the magazine, take some time out to focus on him. Grab a coffee, sit, breathe and read.
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Who is the Trinity?
It’s September and the kids are heading back to school: parents breathe a sigh of relief, teachers pull together the final few lesson plans and children’s and youth workers prep for a new term. In the spirit of it all, I thought we too could school ourselves on the basics of theology.
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The waiting father
Use this story as part of a God-time at home, or as a bedtime story. It can also be used alongside this month’s Together sessions.
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Article
Room one
When I was in my early teens I used to play a computer game called Calypso Island. It was a text-based adventure game. No graphics, no elaborate screen designs, just words. Hard to imagine that now, isn’t it? But I was completely hooked. I spent hours and hours playing this game. In my defence it was a long time ago.
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Who is the Holy Spirit?
My Pentecost celebrations this year involved unloading a van of soggy camping gear and covering our entire church building in tents. We had just returned from Big Church Day Out (other Christian festivals are available, and probably happening as you read this). We had taken 35 or so people from our church community on the weekend, many of whom had never camped before or attended our Sunday service.
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Faith at home
Encouraging children to pray
Ruth Jackson spoke to the Right Rev David Williams, Bishop of Basingstoke, about prayer initiative Thy Kingdom Come.
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Faith at home
Finding God in the outdoors
How do we reach children outside our church walls? We spoke to father-of-four Mike Causey, chief executive of Abernethy about engaging young people with the gospel through the great outdoors
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Faith at home
Helping children remember
As we approach a time of remembrance, how should we talk to children about war, suffering and faith? Ruth Jackson spoke to Chris Poch, company director of Artless Theatre company, about their play To War With God.
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Faith at home
Forming faith rituals: Faith at home at Christmas
Advent and Christmas are notoriously busy; so much so that there could be a case for not bothering to do anything faith-focused at home and just starting again in the new year. However, I believe it’s such a wonderful season that we would be crazy not to take advantage of the opportunities.
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Faith at home
Music, God and Dyslexia
Andy Bodkin from Same Boat Music shares his thoughts about All Age Services, helping children to engage with God, and how music can help those with dyslexia.
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Faith at home
Parenting prodigals
Do you have teenage children who have stepped away from church? Rob Parsons shares his advice about how to parent prodigals.
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Faith at home
Building blocks to faith development
My son looked at me wide-eyed. He’d clambered up the big climbing frame but didn’t know how to get down. “Mummeeeee!” he cried. “You’re fine,” I said. “Look, there’s a safe place for your foot here...Hold on to that bit there...One step at a time.” As his feet hit solid ...
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Issues
The Soul story
My first experience of Soul Survivor freaked me out. I grew up in a Christian home but had never really heard of the Holy Spirit, so my 14-year-old self was utterly devoid of boxes within which to place the bizarre manifestations I saw happening all around me. What on earth was going on? Why were so many young people laughing, crying, shaking and falling over?