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Far from being the source of comedy as it is often portrayed in film or books, bullying is a serious public health problem with the potential to shape the life of a child for good or for ill. No young person should have to endure being bullied. Nor s...

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Bullying in the Classroom

By Martha Bettis-Gee

How serious is the issue of bullying at school? What makes a bully? What should Christians do about it?Contrary to what many of us have been led to believe, bullying is not just a short-term agony. The American Medical Association confirms that bully...

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Children and Video Games
What's the Problem?

By Alexa Smith

'Have you watched your child playing video games lately? Fact is, most parents don't have the time to do that. They think, "Well, my child is in the house. At least I know where he is."While not all video games are violent, today's sophisticated game...

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The Christian Funeral

By Adam J. Copeland

It's true: most people don't enjoy talking about death or funerals. They're such significant life experiences, that it can seem better to not mention them too often. Yet the rituals we practice and the prayers we say when someone dies aren't improvis...

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Christian Responses to War

By Barbara L. Battin

Long before the beginning of written history, human beings struggled with how to respond to perceived danger and threat from an outside source, to difference and disagreement both within their close community and beyond it, and to situations of local...

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Compassion as a Spiritual Discipline

By Bruce Main

Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel is famous for his quote that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Having witnessed so many of his family members and friends and neighbors killed, he asked why some people risked their lives to ...

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Is a prosperity gospel the way to go? Or does the Bible have a different message ■for young Christians? A look at the Gospel of Matthew 6 can help youth in budget ■matters.

Faithful Budgeting
Connecting Our Spending Habits to Our Beliefs

By Adam J. Copeland

Most youth spend money every day-for lunch at school, songs for an iPod, text messaging fees-but they do not often discuss how their faith connects to those purchases. Jesus didn't give his disciples instructions about which brands to buy, but Jesus ...

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Freak Not
Dealing with Daily Pressures

By Gina Yeager-Buckley

Pressure is a reality in all our lives. However, youth today face more pressures than ever before. What would happen if, at a young age, they learned to identify the pressures they face and feel and be given some tools to deal with them?This one-sess...

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Listening for God's Call

By James O. Chatham

God called Abram. God called Moses. God called Deborah. God called Samuel. God called Ruth. God called Isaiah. God called Elizabeth. God called Mary. God called Simon and the other disciples. God called Saul. God called Ananias. God called Lydia.One ...

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"Lord, Make Me . . ."
Following St. Francis

By Lisa Nichols Hickman

"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace." This prayer is believed to have been inspired by the life and teachings of St. Francis of Assisi, who lived many centuries ago. It still rings true today. For those of us who want to be believers in the ba...

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Talking about My Faith

By Gina Yeager-Buckley

This study seeks to help young people explore the issue of expressing their faith with others. It is actually not as difficult as they might imagine. The first session helps participants explore what expressing one's faith looks like and sounds like....

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Tech Etiquette

By Anna Kendig

How should you handle receiving a text at the dinner table or receiving a call while waiting in line at a store? Is it "okay" to breakup with a girlfriend or boyfriend via e-mail? Via text? Via Facebook? What are the rules for using technology? Are t...

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What to do after a youth mission trip is over.

That Mission Trip Was Fun!
Now What?

By Adam J. Copeland

Oh, the youth mission trip. Smelly youth. Late nights. Hard work. Opportunities to see God in new ways. Chances are, your group's last mission trip took more time than expected to plan and some last-minute changes made life complicated for the leader...

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The Bible offers Christians the blessed gift of the simple Golden Rule of do unto ■others as you would have them do unto you. So how does simple rule show ■manners and social customs teens are expected to observe in contemporary life?

That's So Wrong!
An Introduction to Manners

By Anna Kendig

In this one-session study for youth we'll explore manners and civility as they relate to Jesus' Golden Rule found in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew.It may seem like a stretch to think that having to keep your elbows off the table when eating, or usi...

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The apostle Paul calls on followers of Jesus to live a life of integrity by wearing ■compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, and discipline as their clothing.

Wear Your Faith

By Bruce Main

The apostle Paul encourages followers of Christ to dress in the new wardrobe that God has picked for us. This lesson challenges participants to think deeply about the current clothing we wear, old clothing we need to shed, and new clothes we need.Par...

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