All Issues articles – Page 3
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IssuesCan I believe in the Bible and evolution?
Does believing in evolution mean Adam and Eve didn’t exist and the Bible is wrong?
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IssuesWill my pet go to heaven?
“What happens when Susan my sausage dog dies?” “Will my guinea pig, Karl, go to heaven?” In the story of Noah in Genesis (the first book of the Bible) chapters 6-10, the animals’ safety is a huge priority for God. They are also included in the promise ...
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IssuesIf God forgives, can I do whatever I want?
“If Easter tells us that God forgives everything, can I just do whatever I want and then say sorry?”
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IssuesWhat happens when you die?
What Marvel movie Doctor Strange teaches about this life and the next
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IssuesDecember 2018 : Santa vs God
There are many questions that stop children and young people wanting to know more about God. Rather than trying to answer questions they’re not asking, we thought we’d go straight to the source and hear from the experts themselves. Welcome to ‘What does yellow taste like?’
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IssuesJuly 2018 : Do we need God?
There are many questions that stop children and young people wanting to know more about God. Rather than try and answer questions they’re not asking, we thought we’d go straight to the source and hear from the experts themselves. Welcome to ‘What does yellow taste like?’
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Issues‘Jesus helps us rescue trafficked children’
When I was 8 I didn’t know God. I remember watching a broadcast from Feed the Children and it had these kids from Ethiopia. Their stomachs were protruded, flies were landing on their faces and their bones were sticking out of their chests. I remember them saying: ...
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IssuesIn case of emergency: Ten uses for a pumpkin
Pumpkins will be all over the supermarkets as we get closer to Halloween.
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IssuesDiscipling children with additional needs
Kay Morgan-Gurr explores spiritual development in young people with additional needs
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IssuesIncels
When most of us were teenagers, the experience of being rejected by those we were attracted to was fairly common, and ultimately part of the adolescent experience. There was no wider narrative, no dark forces working behind the scenes to deny us the chance to get some ‘action’, just awkward teenage chat, hideous acne and the overwhelming smell of Lynx deodorant getting in our way. But no longer.?
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IssuesSam Wise: The Eagle has landed
Have you ever cried watching a film? How about reading a book? Or listening to a podcast? How about listening to a podcast while out running on a main road...in daylight? The answers for me to these oddly specific questions is of course yes (if you don’t cry at E.T. I worry about you), no, yes, yes and yes. Yep, that was me, running along the side of Hawk Hill listening to a podcast and having a little cry about it. Let me give you some details.
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IssuesQ&A: Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi
Ruth Jackson: What was your experience of God as a child?Ore Ogunbiyi: As a young kid living in England I had lots of little Christian books from my auntie and grandma. My mum would take us to a church down the road. But when I moved to ...
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IssuesThe Soul story
My first experience of Soul Survivor freaked me out. I grew up in a Christian home but had never really heard of the Holy Spirit, so my 14-year-old self was utterly devoid of boxes within which to place the bizarre manifestations I saw happening all around me. What on earth was going on? Why were so many young people laughing, crying, shaking and falling over?
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IssuesThe “erm, what next? ” flowchart of post Soul Survivor options
In the next year, hundreds of youth workers and thousands of young people are going to have to make a pretty big decision… “Erm, what next?” The end of Soul Survivor leaves a big gap in some of our diaries, but fortunately YCW is on hand with a quick, personalised guide to where you could head next summer.
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IssuesChildren's stories
Too often we think of time away as when teenagers make a commitment, but they’re by no means the only ones God is at work in
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IssuesEditor’s choice: The whole Bible in an hour
Ruth Jackson reflecting on the Soul Survivor talks and seminars that really impacted her and the one that stood out most.
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IssuesThe Lion King
The Lion King was originally released in 1994, shaping emotional and spiritual landscapes for thousands of children and teens.
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IssuesThe theory of everyone
If you believe that children are the Church of tomorrow, does that mean you believe that the elderly are the Church of yesterday?
