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The Day After: Election 2016 and Teens

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Those who’ve been observing elections for decades have called this the most contentious, nasty election season in recent history, if not of all time. So the question that emerges after the voting dust settles is this: can we improve as we move forward? And more poignantly, can today’s teens help? For those of us who work with … [Read more...]

Election Hangover Pill

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It seems impossible to have reasonable dialogue in today’s political landscape. But can our teens step up and break the cycle of division they’ve seen in their parents’ generation? Maybe Tim McGraw’s country song ,“Always be humble and kind,” should be our temporary National Anthem. The passages in the document below, if applied … [Read more...]

REVIEW: Slaying Biblical Illiteracy

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The ministry of teen Bible engagement is a complex matrix of considerations: over-churched vs. under-churched, middle school vs. high school, spiritually engaged vs. spiritually apathetic, and the list goes on. It’s a ministry that can use all the tools it can get.  The small book by Matt Andrews, Slaying Biblical Illiteracy  … [Read more...]

Bible Study According to Peanuts

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Maybe you saw this Peanuts comic strip last week. Or, if you’re a seasoned youth ministry vet, maybe you saw this Peanuts comic strip when it originally ran in 1969. I was around, but I wasn’t yet reading Peanuts. Peanuts’ creator, Charles Schulz, passed away in 2000. Had he still been with us, he might have revised the strip … [Read more...]

Can Jesus’ Prayer in John 17 Help Us?

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Can Jesus' Prayer in John 17 Help Us? What was the unity for which Jesus was praying in John 17 and can it help today? If we believers could get our unity act together in our little world, could we change our bigger world? The thing is, would we know what Jesus-grade unity is if we saw it?   We tend to focus on … [Read more...]