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Use this study to help youth in your community strengthen their communication skills. Youth will be challenged to get to know older church members and explore ways that they can work together toward a stronger church community. The study includes a P...

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$7.50

Youth and sports - how can Christian teens learn to be good sports in competitive ■sports?

Be a Good Sport!
Beyond Winning and Losing

By Ellie Roscher

When participating in sports and competitive games, many youth are more focused on winning than they are enjoying the activity or their ability to play. This study focuses on how we can use the gift of a healthy body for competitive sports while stil...

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Be One
Build Unity

By Lisa Nichols Hickman

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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Contemplating Sex
Sexual Ethics for Today's Teens

By Kate Ott

When, if at all, are you ready for sex? This one-session youth study explores the various sexual paths that teens can take and helps them understand how their values shape their sexual ethical guidelines. Prayers, bible verses for reflection, discuss...

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Defining Pornography
A Youth Study

By Kate Ott

In this study, high school students are challenged to set a new standard that values people as created in God's image. The study: explores how our body image affects us helps teens see God in their own and other's bodies examines the difference bet...

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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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Living the Ten Commandments

By Brian Coulter

How can the Ten Commandments guide our lives? In this one-session youth study, high schoolers will learn about the Ten Commandments and brainstorm on ways that they can follow the commandments. This new study comes with a Participant's Handout and a ...

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$7.50

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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Theology literally means thinking about God. In fact, Christians have created a ■number of models for thinking about God. This can be fulfilling but it raises some ■vexing questions, as well. Are we all thinking about the same God? In the same ■way? Which model is best? Is only one true? Does the Bible go far enough in ■defining God for us? How can we share a faith if we're not all on the same ■page? This study will help clarify this confusing issue.

Responding to Racism

By Jennifer Harvey

In this newly-revised study, youth will identify the role race plays in their own lives. Together they will explore the difference between prejudice and racism, and they will be challenged to come up with antiracist responses that they can use in the...

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School Violence
What Can I Do about It?

By Martha Bettis-Gee

Columbine . . . Pearl . . . Paducah . . . Virginia Tech. These names have the power to evoke chilling images of adolescent killers roaming school hallways while terrified teenagers frantically seek cover. Yet our fears of school shootings actually ar...

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$12.00

This study for youth helps teens learn the Christian priciple of volunteering and ■looks at the Bible to do so.

Serving Others
Possibilities for Volunteering

By Ellie Roscher

Serving others with no expectation of reward is a daily part of life for Christians. This study encourages youth to consider opportunities they encounter daily to serve others. It also spends considerable time discussing ways to be a regular voluntee...

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Should Christians Fight?

By Sue Washburn

In this study youth will consider different perspectives about how Christians should work toward a more just world. They will also be challenged to think about whether the use of force is necessary in the fight for justice. The study features a Parti...

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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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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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