Simply Youth Ministry
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Small Groups debrief
I can’t believe we’re this close to the end of the year for our student small groups! Next week will be our last week – we used to go until June, but between school finals, mission trip preparations and spring fever, our attendance dies and our leaders get burnt out (many of them are also…
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SEXuality // HABITS (Sunday update, 4/17/11)
This was the second week in two series with the students on Sunday during our Student Quest hour; ‘SEXuality: What was God thinking?’ for the junior high, and ‘Growing Spiritually’ (a HABITS series) for the high school students. Both are studies from the Live Curriculum, a great youth ministry resource. Here’s the recaps for both lessons…
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SEXuality // HABITS (Sunday update, 4/10/11)
This was the first week in two series with the students on Sunday during our Student Quest hour; ‘SEXuality: What was God thinking?’ for the junior high, and ‘Growing Spiritually’ (a HABITS series) for the high school students. Both are studies from the Live Curriculum, a great youth ministry resource. Here’s the recaps for both lessons…
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Sex Warning Letter
I decided I wanted to drive up random traffic to my blog so I put ‘sex’ in the title. Just kidding! Having said that, our Student Ministry is right in the middle of our annual teaching emphasis on sex, dating, relationships, etc. I’ve been teaching the senior high the last couple weeks. This Sunday is…
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Healthy Dating // HABITS (Sunday update, 3/27/11)
This was the second week in two new series with the students on Sunday; ‘Healthy Dating’ for the senior high, and ‘Growing Spiritually’ (a HABITS series) for the middle school students. Both are studies from the Live Curriculum, a great youth ministry resource. Here’s the recaps for both lessons and some follow up ideas for families…
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Healthy Dating // HABITS (Sunday update, 3/20/11)
Yup, this post is way overdue! It’s been a crazy week, and on top of that my computer crashed last week and I was still putting together the pieces this week … hence my Sunday update almost in time for the next Sunday. We started two new series with the students on Sunday; ‘Healthy Dating’…
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Red Stuff small group curriculum
For the last few weeks our middle school students have been working their way through The Red Stuff, a five week DVD small group study by Scott Rubin. Basically, each week takes a look at a different passage of ‘red stuff,’ the words of Jesus printed in red ink. There’s a couple reasons why I love…
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Junior High Survival Instincts
Kurt Johnston, the Jr. High pastor at Saddleback wrote a great (and short!) blog post on junior high kids’ behavior and survival instincts. Definitely worth checking out. Here’s a sample, find the rest here. The junior high years are tough (remember yours?), and most young teens find themselves, consciously or subconsciously, in survival mode. They…
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Labels, part 2 (Sunday update, 1/9/11)
We were in week two of a two week series called Labels from Simply Youth Ministry and put together by Josh Griffin, the high school pastor at Saddleback. It’s a great series that my wife, Heather, and I have been really excited about; I taught the first week, she taught this week. I remember Josh blogging his…
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Labels, part 1 (Sunday update, 1/2/11)
We kicked off the new year in Student Quest, our Sunday morning student ministry program, with a new two week series called Labels from Simply Youth Ministry and put together by Josh Griffin, the high school pastor at Saddleback. It’s a great series that Heather and I have been really excited about; she’ll be teaching…