Youth Culture Lesson: You’re So Vain

A Lesson in Real Beauty from Mirror MirrorGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:In the past 200 years, the story of Snow White has been told many different ...

Shining Our Lights in All the Wrong Places

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that we—His followers—are the light of the world and that by shining our lights for others they will see our good works and praise the Father in heaven (Matthe...

The Thread of Love

Objective: To help students see how God wove a thread of redeeming love through the Bible, culminating with the greatest expression of love, Jesus' death and resurrection.Scripture Focus: Genesis 3:1-13, 21-24;...

Coloring in Your Life with Joy!

What You Need: A coloring page and some crayons. You will make two copies of the coloring picture and have a third sheet that you need to keep blank. What You Will Do: Pre-Lesson: Color in only one of the ...

Youth Culture Lesson: Magic Words

Are 'Please' and 'Thank you' Vanishing from Culture?Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:"May I have a coffee, please? Thank you."According to some etiquet...

Talking About: Earth Day

Read both versions of the creation story aloud: Genesis 1 Genesis 2. One version depicts God as a sort of distant orchestra conductor flinging planets around the universe. The other seems to have God down on hi...

When Helping Doesn’t Help

My dad's advice to deal with school yard bullies was to tell them: "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me."Neither did it work, nor was it true. An injury from the sticks and stones ...

Finding Love One Byte at a Time

A key task of emerging adulthood is the discovery of a partner with whom to spend one's life. To this end, the Internet arguably has had the greatest technological influence on the landscape of dating since the...

My God Moment

Truth be told, when our senior youth group became involved with a mission program in Appalachia, I didn't want to go. Instead, I was perfectly content working behind the scenes and making sure our volunteers we...