The scripture for my small group lesson tonight is pretty long and repetitive. There’s a lot of great stuff in there that would be lost if we just read through it and moved into the discussion questions. To capture the great lessons in the verses, we’re going to diagram the verses using posterboard, markers and [...]

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I saw this great article about Google searches and what it says about people. This would be a great tool for a lesson on purity, intimacy with God, character, and I’m sure a few others. I pasted a clip below. Go there for the rest. It’s worth the 5 minutes it will take to read.
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I’m reading How To Reach Your Full Potential for God by Charles F Stanley. I’m not very far into it yet, but I’m expecting it to be a great read.
Here’s a quote that I thought to be especially useful for me and fellow volunteer youth workers who teach Bible study:
A wise university professor once told [...]

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Here’s a great way to get some ministry mileage out of the media. FoxNews.com has this article showing what celebrities looked like as children. Each image is followed by what each celebrity looks like today.
At Saddleback Church’s High School Ministry, we’ve scoured the web before for photos like these to create games for our weekend [...]

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I saw this article about Bible Storying over at Youth Specialties. I love how it gets students engaged with the Bible. The ideas aren’t earth-shattering, that’s part of why I like the concepts. The article gives some easy ideas to make this happen. There’s a clip below, click here to read the rest.

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The idea of this post is to help fellow volunteer youth workers think through their life stories and how they can be used in ministry. This experience I had can be useful to illustrate a few lessons while teaching my high school small group Bible study. I’ll share the story and then some options for [...]

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Anytime I see something that might be useful one day as an illustration either for teaching my small group or for the high school pastor speaking on the weekend, I snap a picture. The picture below is a great example of something that can be used when at the weekend service on the screen when [...]

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For tonight’s small group, we combined two of our guy groups with one of our girls groups to discuss relationships, dating and sex. It was a little slow-going at first, but the students really got into it once a few took the brave step of opening up. We threw out some provocative questions then let [...]

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This weekend and next Doug Fields is teaching a series on sex at our high school ministry. In preparation for that, I chose to lead a small group discussion on relationships this week in small group.
To prepare for a great discussion, I developed an online poll using PollDaddy.com. This worked as a great discussion-starter for [...]

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I’m teaching a high school small group lesson this week on communicating with the opposite gender.
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