All Ready-to-use articles – Page 10
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BlogReady-To-Use Mentoring: What are you hiding?
I heard a story of a mentee who said that he holds back in relationships to protect people from himself. He felt so negative about his bad points and shameful secrets that he felt he needed to put up walls for their sake. Perhaps this is extreme, but we all have areas we hide, indicative of low self-esteem or unresolved issues.
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Ready-to-use Movie: The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey
The J.R.R. Tolkien classic and the prequel to The Lord of The Rings arrives onto DVD as the first part of a new trilogy. We follow Bilbo Baggins as he is swept into an unforgettable journey to assist some dwarves in their bid to reclaim their home from a dragon. Expect goblins, orcs, wizards and a mighty adventure.
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BlogReady-to-use Movie: Inside Out
Clip: The clip starts at 26:48 minutes and lasts until 32:22 minutes.
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Ready-to-use Worship: Worship and Intercession
Have you ever tried to make your young people come to a church prayer meeting? It would seem a counter-intuitive thing to do – the
typical slow, long-winded prayer meeting appears incompatible with the attention span of a teenager (or an adult, for that matter, but we’ve
learnt to hide our yawns). Yet, the 24/7 Prayer movement has largely been seen as a youth movement, and it consists of a ridiculous amount of praying. -
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Ready-to-use Movie: Interstellar
It’s the near future and Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, leading to mass food shortages and extreme climate change. But at the very point that humanity is facing extinction, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered, giving mankind the opportunity to save itself and possibly find a new place to live.
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IssuesReady-to-use Movie: It’s a wonderful life
Clip: The clip starts at 1:27:03 and lasts until 1:39:09.
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Ready-to-use Reflection: Seeing Jesus
The Bible says that Jesus is ‘the image of the invisible God’ (Colossians 1:15). There were no cameras in the 1st Century, so nobody can be sure what he looked like. Ever since Jesus’ incarnation, however, artists have created different images and representations of him ...
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Ready-to-use Movie: The Lego Movie
‘Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you’re part of a team!’ Let’s be honest, nobody outside of Denmark thought that a Lego movie
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Ready-to-use Reflection: Lent
The 18th February 2015 is Ash Wednesday. You know when it comes around, because the day before you will have stuffed yourself with pancakes! Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the traditional time of fasting, confession and contemplation leading up to Easter. In recent years people have been rediscovering the spiritual riches of some of these ancient rhythms and seasons. Here’s a reflection to kick off Lent with your young people
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IssuesReady-to-use Parable: The perfect life
Rachel and Erin both loved spending time putting together photos for Instagram and Snapchatting their friends. They had a bit of a competition going to see who could get the longest streak and the most followers.
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Ready-to-use Reflection: Light of the World
The run-up to Christmas can be a frantic time, with parties, present-buying and incessant jolly music. Give your group space and time to prepare for the ‘coming’ (Adventus) of Jesus by entering into silence, reflection and prayer. After welcoming and noticing each young person, give everyone a stack of sticky notes and a pen. Allow each member of the group to find a space to sit where they are not easily distracted.
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IssuesReady-to-use mentoring: Listen up!
The worst mentoring relationship I have ever been in came early on in my mentoring ‘career’ …
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IssuesReady-to-use Schools work: Love is Sacrifice
As the pupils are coming into assembly give a class worth of pupils a piece of paper with the question, ‘What is love?’ on it, and pens or pencils to scribble down their thoughts.
