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Is your youth group ready to reflect on its life together? Learn about our unity in Christ by exploring Ephesians 4:1-6 and discover how to reflect on God's call for unity in the church. This one-session study is great for student ministry groups tha...

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Whether your teen has high self-esteem or low self-esteem, this study can help ■you to build and maintain a healthy identity in your teen.

Building Self-Esteem in Your Teen

By Faye Burdick

How can parents help their teen develop a healthy self-esteem? When previously high achieving and happy kids begin receiving bad grades and don't care, issues of self-esteem are likely involved.This study defines self-esteem and shares new research a...

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Finding a balanced way to maintain relationships while forming new ones is an ■important developmental skill--one many of us spend our lives working to master.

The Dating Game
How to Survive the Roller Coaster

By Kate Ott

Dating relationships can be as different and diverse as the kids involved. Some may fade after a few days while an occasional few may last over a year. Regardless, teens spend a significant amount of time thinking about, planning for, and working thr...

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How do the lessons of the Bible help up form healthy or right Christian ■relationships? And how can we help teens avoid unhealthy relationships?

Forming a Healthy Relationship

By Kate Ott

A healthy relationship is a healthy relationship. It does not matter if that relationship is between or among family members, friends, acquaintances, co-workers, or romantic interests. The basic values that contribute to a healthy or "right" relation...

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The Gift of Friendship

By Lynne M. Baab

Is friendship a dying art? Loneliness and isolation continue to increase in our culture. Yet, Christian values of community should provide an alternative to lives lived in isolation.The Bible teaches much about relationships that can help us be loyal...

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Helping our teens choose healthy relationships calls for our child to know what ■fuels the relationship. This study helps parents prepare their children for situations ■when an instant response is needed.

Helping Your Teen Choose Healthy Friendships

By Faye Burdick

How do parents help their teens identify healthy and unhealthy types of relationships? As teens face more pressures from outside the home and choose their own friends, what do parents need to do to support their teen in making healthy decisions?This ...

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Hospitality
Loving the Stranger

By David Otto

Hospitality is a theme most Christians take very seriously. How do we welcome strangers in our community? Do we welcome outsiders? What are our obligations to strangers? Do guests also have obligations to hosts?This two-session study reviews the impo...

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$12.00

Interfaith Marriage

By Jay Rock

Interfaith marriage is and will continue to be a reality in our society. Regardless of how our various religious traditions regard it, men and women will fall in love and marry partners of different faiths. Such marriages offer challenges and opportu...

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Learning Compassion
Why Indifference Is the Enemy

By Bruce Main

How does one learn to be compassionate? Is this an inborn trait, or do we need to actually learn it? Apparently the latter is the case for most of us.Anyone who works with adolescents can find oneself bothered, at times, by many youths' apparent indi...

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The Bible is replete with tales of parental authority. And through the Ten ■Commandments, Christians are taught from an early age to honor thy father and ■thy mother, but the day will come when the tables turn. Keep in mind, parenting ■is a two-way street.

Learning from Our Teens

By Faye Burdick

There's a famous quote, often attributed to Mark Twain, that accurately reflects the parent-child relationship: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one,...

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In raising teens we often feel like they are not listening to us, but before we can ■work on this, we need to make sure we're listening to them. This study offers ■parenting advice for communicating with teens.

Learning to Listen to Your Teen

By Delia Halverson

Does the person inhabiting that adolescent body know how to think and communicate? Yes, of course they do, but they're changing and so must we. Just what can we expect from teenage children in terms of communication? What can parents do to succeed in...

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But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you ■(Matthew 5:44). What does the Bible say about forgiving our enemies?

Loving Your Enemy

By Sam Halverson

In this challenging study for youth, participants will grapple with one of the toughest things God asks of us--to love our enemies. Human nature encourages us to seek revenge on our enemies. Whether we find them in our classrooms or they conspire aga...

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Reflections for Christian parents on modeling your commitment to social justice for ■your teenager.

Modeling Love for the "Least of These"

By Faye Burdick

Teaching your children the Golden Rule to do for others what you would wish to have done to you is a common and positive practice for Christian parents. To children it means sharing, being gracious, and having compassion for others. But sometimes "do...

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How do you convince your child that while your love for your spouse may have ■died, your love for your child never will? What is the Christian response to ■parenting after a divorce? How can our Christian values guide us in our effort to ■redefine family?

Parenting during Divorce

By Sue Washburn

While there is no way to make a divorce easy on a child, there are good and bad ways of handling the situation. In this study, we'll explore some of the more challenging aspects of severing a marriage when children are involved.Legally divorcing a sp...

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As Christian parents, we want our children to follow in the compassionate ■footsteps of Jesus. This study offers parenting advice for raising teenagers with a ■sense of empathy.

Teaching Empathy

By Martha Bettis-Gee

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