All Editorial articles – Page 127
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IssuesDiscovering the Bible in a digital world
As Guardians of Ancora – a digital Bible experience for children is released, the team behind the game explain why they chose to create it, what the game is all about, and the future possibilities of reaching children in a digital age.
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IssuesHelping young people to understand the Bible
Experienced youth and schools worker Philip Eley looks at some of the difficulties involved in handling the Bible with young people, and explores key questions around interpretation, before offering practical ideas to get young people engaged.
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IssuesBible reading notes
Children’s workers put resources through their paces. How do you engage children with the Bible? Alex Taylor tracks down some of the great Bible reading resources out there for children, and gives them the Premier Childrenswork road test.
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IssuesBringing the Bible to Life
We know that the Bible is anything but boring, but how do we communicate this to children, encouraging them to read it for themselves? Author and storyteller Andy Robb gives us some tips for bringing the Bible to life, with the help of one of his creations…
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Navigate - Methodist Church and Bible Society
With Navigate, the Methodist Church and Bible Society have collaborated to produce a resource for 11-15 year-olds to help them explore and engage with the Bible, a useful little tool for voluntary or professional youth workers to have at their fingertips.
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Re-Charge Bible Study: This is That
RECHARGE IS A BIBLE STUDY JUST FOR YOU, TO NURTURE YOUR OWN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. SO STOP, SIT, BREATHE AND READ. THIS
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IssuesRe-charge Bible study: Merry Christmas
Re-charge is a Bible study just for you, to nurture your own relationship with God. So stop, sit, breathe and read. This month, Danielle Strickland wishes you all a Merry Christmas.
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IssuesRe-Charge Bible Study: Weakness and other vulnerable things I hate
RECHARGE IS A BIBLE STUDY JUST FOR YOU, TO NURTURE YOUR OWN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. SO STOP, SIT, BREATHE AND READ. THIS
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IssuesRe-charge Bible Study: 'Take courage...'
Recharge is a bible study just for you, to nurture your own relationship with God. So stop, sit, breathe and read. This month, Kenda Creasy Dean looks at courage.
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Re-charge Bible Study: Lessons from the Sermon on the Mount: Salt
RECHARGE IS A BIBLE STUDY JUST FOR YOU, TO NURTURE YOUR OWN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. SO STOP, SIT, BREATHE AND READ. THIS
MONTH, GERARD KELLY CONTINUES HIS series on the Sermon on the Mount by looking at HOW TO REMAIN SALTY. -
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RE-Charge Bible Study: Our whole selves
Recharge is a Bible study just for you, to nurture your own relationship with God. So stop, sit, breathe and read. This month, Danielle Strickland takes on ‘spiritual lives’.
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BlogBeyond the decline
This week's Youthwork blog comes from a familiar face as Phoebe Thompson shares her view on youth ministry and the work she hopes will bring about change in the future.
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IssuesHoliday clubs: One step beyond
I was reminiscing the other day with a friend about holiday clubs we had been to as children. As we are both in our early 40s, our fuzzy memories of singing songs and craft activities were at least 30 years old. It really made me think: if the ministry of holiday clubs has been going since the 1980s (and even longer), then is it still relevant in 2016?
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IssuesQ & A: Dr. Bex Lewis
Do you confuse faith book with Facebook? Does the idea of children being online terrify you? Never fear, as Dr Bex Lewis is on hand with some practical advice for getting to grips with the internet. She spoke to Premier Childrenswork’s Jamie Cutteridge.
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Calls for Better Sex Education
The Daily Telegraph has launched a campaign to improve sex education, after claims that the current guidance is out of the date. The last material for teachers in this area was published in 2000 and has no mention of online pornography, ‘sexting’ or social media. The attention has drawn support from a number of figures and organisations including Girl Guides, the NSPCC, Mumsnet and Claire Perry (the Prime Minister’s children’s advisor).
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Ready-to-use discussion: Better together
All the best heroes have one thing in common – they’re better together. Just think about The Avengers. Sure, Captain America is pretty great on his own, but when combined with Iron Man and The Hulk… now you’ve got yourself a super team capable of taking on all the world can throw at them.
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Day five: new vision, fresh ideas, better ways forward for youth ministry
So far this week we’ve mostly focused on things immediately relevant to the young people themselves - education, relationships and faith. Today we’re going to step back a bit and pray for youth ministry, and the ways in which the church engages with the younger generation.
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BlogIs bigger better for kids?
Atlanta megachurch pastor Andy Stanley recently caused controversy with comments about smaller churches during a Sunday sermon. Stanley, whose church has six campuses and more than 30,000 regular attendees said during his sermon: ‘When I hear adults say, “Well I don’t like a big church, I like about 200, I want to be able to know everybody,” I say: “You are so stinking selfish. You care nothing about the next generation. All you care about is you and your five friends. You don’t care about your kids [or] anybody else’s kids” … If you don’t go to a church large enough where you can have enough middle schoolers and high schoolers to separate them so they can have small groups and grow up the local church, you are a selfish adult. Get over it.’ Stanley later retracted his comments, tweeting: ‘The negative reaction to the clip from last weekend's message is entirely justified. Heck, even I was offended by what I said! I apologise.’
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IssuesBetter together
Here is something you already know: we do not change the lives of teenagers. We’re in the transformation business, but we play a support role. We are transformation hosts, really, since the work of transformation belongs solely to the Holy Spirit.
