All Editorial articles – Page 137
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God made the stars, too
Last week, I listened to an astrophysicist. To be honest, what he had to say was so fascinating that I could have listened to him all day.
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IssuesThe Kingdom of God is like ...
If you were a first Century Jew listening to Jesus on a sunny afternoon in Galilee, you would have heard him speaking about the kingdom of God. But even if you were very religious, it probably would have been the first time you’d heard that phrase.
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IssuesInstant God
In a culture of instant communication, anything less than a tangible, high speed connection with God can be challenging for today’s young disciples. Revd Greg Downes unpacks five areas we need to teach into if teenagers are to fully understand the reality of a life-long connection with God.
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IssuesMeeting God in nature
This is the first of a new series of columns. From now on we’ll be walking you through reflective, contemplative, devotional activities which can be adapted and used with your youth group.
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Godly Play in practice
We can talk about Godly Play and the theory behind it until the cows come home. But the ultimate question is – does it really work? Following his article Godly Play in the latest issue of Premier Childrenswork (available online here), Alex Taylor spoke to the Salvation Army's training and development officer, Andrea Harrison – who already uses Godly Play with people of all ages – and asks: does it really work?
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IssuesResource On Trial: A GodVenture through the life of Jesus
Children’s workers put resources through their paces
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IssuesYouth work goes green
Why should we care about the environment? David Westlake examines the importance of how we live in the world, and why it matters for people who love the creator, and his creation.
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IssuesWhat's Going On?
How do we discern what's going on when things go wrong? Youthwork's resident theologian, Steve Griffiths, shares some insights
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IssuesQ & A: Helen Goldenberg
One half of the duo behind Children Can Ministries, Helen Goldenberg has over 20 years of experience in leading children to encounter God. She caught up with Premier Childrenswork’s Jamie Cutteridge, to talk worship, child evangelism and the role of the Holy Spirit in children’s work.
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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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IssuesGood Loving
It’s the topic sure to capture the attention of teenagers, and to provoke mild panic in the coolest and calmest of youth workers. Love it or loathe it - we can never talk about sex and relationships enough with our young people. Romance Academy founder and author of The dating dilemma, Rachel Gardner, shares some pearls of wisdom on dating well.
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Good grief
April saw the tragic death of model and TV presenter Peaches Geldof. Peaches, daughter of Sir Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, left behind two young children.
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Issues‘Proclaim Good News to the Poor’
Families in the UK are facing a poverty crisis. Large numbers of children are living in poverty, both in predictable places such as inner-city contexts and large estate communities, but also in places we don’t think of so often as being poor: our seaside resorts and rural communities
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Ravens and gorillas
I had to miss Messy Church recently, and only got to catch up with the children on Sunday after church.
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UNICEF: young people are sidelined by the government
Unicef is calling for more investment in young people in the UK. The call follows the organisation’s report which places the country below Slovenia, Czech Republic and Portugal, in the league table of child well-being in the world’s richest countries.
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