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Ready-to-use Reflection: Seeing Jesus
The Bible says that Jesus is ‘the image of the invisible God’ (Colossians 1:15). There were no cameras in the 1st Century, so nobody can be sure what he looked like. Ever since Jesus’ incarnation, however, artists have created different images and representations of him ...
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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: It’s a wonderful life
Clip: The clip starts at 1:27:03 and lasts until 1:39:09.
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Ready-to-use Movie: Interstellar
It’s the near future and Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, leading to mass food shortages and extreme climate change. But at the very point that humanity is facing extinction, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered, giving mankind the opportunity to save itself and possibly find a new place to live.
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Ready-to-use Worship: Worship and Intercession
Have you ever tried to make your young people come to a church prayer meeting? It would seem a counter-intuitive thing to do – the
typical slow, long-winded prayer meeting appears incompatible with the attention span of a teenager (or an adult, for that matter, but we’ve
learnt to hide our yawns). Yet, the 24/7 Prayer movement has largely been seen as a youth movement, and it consists of a ridiculous amount of praying. -
BlogReady-to-use Movie: Inside Out
Clip: The clip starts at 26:48 minutes and lasts until 32:22 minutes.
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Ready-to-use Movie: The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey
The J.R.R. Tolkien classic and the prequel to The Lord of The Rings arrives onto DVD as the first part of a new trilogy. We follow Bilbo Baggins as he is swept into an unforgettable journey to assist some dwarves in their bid to reclaim their home from a dragon. Expect goblins, orcs, wizards and a mighty adventure.
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BlogReady-To-Use Mentoring: What are you hiding?
I heard a story of a mentee who said that he holds back in relationships to protect people from himself. He felt so negative about his bad points and shameful secrets that he felt he needed to put up walls for their sake. Perhaps this is extreme, but we all have areas we hide, indicative of low self-esteem or unresolved issues.
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Ready-to-use Worship: Letting the World hit you on the head
A few years ago we were running the older youth venue at a big Christian event, and decided to incorporate some prayer for the world in our
evening celebration. Sara stood up to lead the prayer, using an inflatable globe as a prop. At the end of the prayer, she threw it into the crowd. We thought it would be a bit of fun to bop the globe around during the sung worship, and we also wanted the global prayer focus to linger for a while. -
IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Straw Polls, Straw Hats and Straw…Berries?
Youth ministry is often earmarked by its use of tenuous links. Making bread is a good one (to lead into talking about what ‘yeast’ we allow to grow and rise in our lives) or having a Nerf gun fight (to introduce the topic of what ‘fiery darts’ we shoot at each other with our speech). It struck me that this approach works well in mentoring too. As many of us meet in cafes, there’s often plastic straws knocking around so here’s ten ideas of discussion starters using straws!
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IssuesReady-To-Use Mentoring: Spiritual Growth
Unlike business, which can collect data on performance, or social media, which can count ‘likes’ and ‘shares,’ things-of-thespirit are rather more tricky to quantify.
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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: Good Kill
Major Thomas Egan is a US Air Force fighter pilot who transitions to drone duty when demand drops for manned aircraft. As a drone pilot, with a limited ability to control collateral damage during airstrikes, Egan becomes disillusioned. He begins to more deeply question the morality of his job after his unit begins running missions for the CIA.
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: From great to good
Good is the enemy of great.’ (James C. Collins Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t)
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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: Next Goal Wins
American Samoa spent nearly two decades at the bottom of FIFA’s international rankings, and earned the reputation as the worst football team in the world. After losing 31-0 to Australia, morale is low and Thomas Rongen, a Dutch Football coach, is brought in to offer some professional advice and coaching. He attempts the impossible, to lead American Samoa to their first victory.
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IssuesReady-to-use mentoring: Get out of the office
‘Learning by doing’ is a hugely important principle in contemporary youth work and specifically in mentoring. It embodies the wisdom that is a few years old now, around the shift from a believe-behave-belong faith development to a belong-believe-behave progression.
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Ready-to-use Rhythms: Generosity
Living generously takes our everyday walking, buying, eating and chatting and turns it on its head. It takes our connection with injustice and gives us the resources to do something about it. Living generously takes the stuff we own, the stuff we love and makes it exciting.
