Category Archives: youth

Acts 2: not drunk, just filled by the Spirit

In Acts 2, God gives the disciples the gift of the Holy Spirit, and they start shouting out the good news of Jesus in a bunch of random languages that they don’t actually even know. Part of the surrounding crowd was impressed with these dumb, country bumpkins from Galilee, but a lot of the crowd thought [...]

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Acts: The World, Upside-Down

This week in our quest for 2012 to ReDiscover the New Testament, we’re starting on the fifth book of the New Testament, which is called the Acts of the Apostles. Acts was written as a sequel to the Gospel of Luke, and it seems to be written by the same author. It picks up right [...]

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The Whole Sweep of Scripture

Diving into big chunks of the Bible: advice from N.T. Wright, a very smart British person. The Whole Sweep Of Scripture from The Work Of The People on Vimeo. I love the image of the Bible as a symphony. We don’t read the Bible for understanding, though that enters into it. We read the Bible [...]

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What is a gospel?

Right now in our quest to ReDiscover our Bibles by reading the whole New Testament in 2012, we’re reading through the gospel of Mark. Last week we read the first five chapters of Mark, and this week we’re reading chapters 6-10. But this brings up an interesting question that you might not think about right [...]

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A Challenge: ReDiscover your Bible

Last Wednesday I invited/challenged the youth to read the whole New Testament in 2012. I’m even offering them a reading plan where it can be done by reading only one chapter a day for only five days a week. That’s only five or ten minutes a day, with the weekends off. I’d like to further [...]

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Youth Ministry Blog

We’ll have a blog for the youth ministry too. We’ll use it to post news, updates, links to download forms, etc. And we’ll also use it to spark conversations about the Bible, our lives, and what the two have to do with one another.

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