All Editorial articles – Page 69
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IssuesAdaptable meeting guide: Reimagining Church 1: What is Church?
We all have different understandings of what it means to be Church depending on our culture, context, background, upbringing and tradition,
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Adaptable Meeting Guide #1: The Gospel according to ... Game of Thrones
To explore the worldview of Game of Thrones and what the Bible has to say about it. Game of Thrones is a violent and at times sexually graphic show, but one wildly popular among young people and full of things worth discussing.
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Ready-to-use Worship: How would Jesus lead worship? Part 1: Humble servant
Who are your role-models for leading worship? Someone you’ve seen at a festival or online? Perhaps an expert musician or renowned songwriter? For the Bible readers among us, it may be David - after all, he wrote songs and played a stringed instrument! But how about Jesus…shouldn’t he be our primary inspiration for all we do as Christians - including leading worship? ‘Hang on’, we hear you cry, ‘did Jesus even play the guitar?!’
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IssuesAdaptable Meeting Guide #1: Philippians 1
Meeting aim: To explore the first chapter of Philippians and be reminded that God always has our back.
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IssuesAdaptable meeting guide: Unwrapping Christmas 1 - Mary and Joseph
Meeting aim: To explore part of the Christmas story and investigate what it can teach us about discovering and appreciating Jesus.
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Christmas: Expectation (Matthew 1)
Explore what Matthew 1 tells us about Christmas, why genealogy is important, and to raise expectation of both Jesus and what we can learn in the Christmas story.
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Yule Blog #1 - The Golden Calves
Merry Christmas! Team Youthwork are feeling gloriously festive and are going to spruce up your holidays with a series of ‘Yule Blogs’ (see what we did there) over the next week. Kicking us off we have journalist Jamie Cutteridge taking on some Christmas traditions.
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BlogMeeting guide 1: Identifying emotions
Mental health and emotional wellbeing is something that we don’t talk about enough as Christians. We think it’s particularly important to be open about these issues with our young people so these four sessions explore some of the key topics around this area. These obviously require sensitivity and lots of prayer but hopefully they will be a good starting point for ongoing discussions around this important subject.
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SEX (PART 1): EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX...BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
For young people to express their view, values, and beliefs about sex and relationships.
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Adaptable meeting guide: Reimagining Church 1: What does our Church look like?
To look critically at our churches as they are, encouraging the young people to ask questions and explore how the elements of church are embodied in our church community.
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IssuesTop 10 teen fears
A survey by the National Citizen Service has revealed the ten things that young people dread the most.
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Team time: 10 tips for a great team retreat
How do you persuade busy youth workers that they should spend time away from work, family, young people and church to do very little? Here are some suggestions from those who have made it work...
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IssuesThe 10 Commandments for Volunteer Youth Workers
1. Thou shalt not be easily angered or wound up, especially when Gary asks you for the tenth time why there aren’t any Snickers in the tuck shop this week…
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IssuesAdaptable Meeting Guide: Ephesians 6:10-24
Meeting aim: To grapple with how the armour of God can help us face challenges and to consider how much we’re making use of it.
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BlogThe 10 Best Worst Alternative Nativities
Standard nativities are so old hat. Here are the 10 most creative, hilarious and downright weird alternative manger scenes the internet has to offer.
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Blog10 years and counting
Ten years as a youth worker can give you some valuable insights. Dave Aarons, a youth pastor, shared with us the three main things he's learnt in that time.
