All NexGen Pro articles – Page 62
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IssuesRecharge Bible Study: Maybe there aren’t any dragons
Recharge is a Bible study just for you, to nurture your own relationship with God. So stop, sit, breathe and read. This month, Jill Rowe explores Jesus’ sermon on the mount.
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IssuesThe God of the Old Testament: Is it best to ignore some stories?
How do we approach some of the more difficult Bible passages with our children? Maybe we should sugar-coat them, maybe we should heavily edit them in our retellings, maybe we should just not share them at all. Or maybe we should allow the stories to speak for themselves?
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IssuesChildren and young people on corporal punishment
A group of children and young people discuss corporal punishment.
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IssuesChildren and young people on the God of the Old Testament
Can anyone tell me the story of Noah?Lewis: All of these people were being really nasty to each other so God was about to send a flood but there was one family that was nice and didn’t get involved, and that was Noah’s family. So God told Noah to build ...
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IssuesChildren and young people on other faiths
A group of children and young people discuss other faiths.
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IssuesThe God of the Old Testament: The Conversation
What do you think is the best way to read the Bible with children?Sam Donoghue: Know the kids you’re working with. Things may wash over some kids while others will be traumatised. Everything we know about faith development tells us that the image of God that children acquire now, they ...
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IssuesCorporal Punishment: Are the days of smacking over?
Obviously, OBVIOUSLY, as youth and children’s workers, we don’t resort to corporal punishment when those we work with misbehave, but that might not be true of children and young people’s home lives. So what difference does this make to our work?
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IssuesA final word on some elephants
During one of the conversations we hosted for this issue, the dialogue was so gracious, so full of commonality that we jokingly said: “This is far too nuanced and respectful. We wanted to alienate everybody and now we’re not going to annoy anybody…”
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IssuesDo we all worship the same God anyway?
We know that interfaith discussions are important and that we should respect people of all religions. But how should we encourage our children and young people in their own faith, while helping them interact with those of different faiths? Interfaith expert Andrew Smith has some ideas...
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BlogPreaching Competition for Young People in Guildford
We hear a lot about the need for young people’s voices to be heard. On the Premier Youth and Children’s Work blog recently, Jamie Cutteridge talked about the general election and the voice of young people being heard through the ballot box. On a grander scale these things are massively important, but this does leave us with a slight dilemma – how do we do it on a more local and simple level?
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IssuesFirst Word - August 2017
An old friend of mine recently asked my wife and I to be godparents for her and her husband’s child. “Nothing particularly notable there for a Christian couple in their late 20s, hardly worth the anecdote, Jamie,” I hear you say. Well, not quite. You see one of the other godparents was a woman called Laura, who, as it happens, is an ex-girlfriend of mine. Now, for full disclosure, it wasn’t the longest of relationships, it happened quite a few years ago and while it had been a few years since we’d seen each other, we are both very much ‘over it’; nevertheless it still added a certain frisson to proceedings. The question was how to approach things: avoid each other? Smile and nod? Engage in only the most superficial of banter? I took a different approach, saying at the first possible opportunity (in front of my wife for good measure): “Well, we finally have a (god) child of our own; I dreamt this moment would come.” I think I just about got away with it. She laughed. My wife laughed. I sighed with relief and we could all move on with the day.
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IssuesWhat if evangelical youth ministry has got it all wrong?
Like many other people reading this magazine, I’ve invested well over a decade of my life into youth ministry. And while I’m increasingly uncomfortable with the label, there’s no doubting that I’ve done so as part of a broadly evangelical movement. Some key phrases seem to sum up that approach: we want to “reach and keep” teenagers; to “make disciples”; see them “filled with the Holy Spirit” and ultimately to get them to move from being “unchurched” to “churched”.
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BlogElijah: Session 1
Meeting aim: To understand that God is the only true God, and more powerful than anything.
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IssuesJeremiah: Session 2
Meeting aim: To see how God sends warning to his people to give them the chance to turn back to him – but they don’t always do so.
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