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Help young punks to read the Bible

Here’s a youth ministry idea: help young punks to read the Bible. That’s one of the goals behind our DAILY BIBLE JOURNAL. For these school holidays we’re encouraging our crew to read through some of the Psalms.

I was going to have a crack at writing some school holiday reading notes, but in the end thought I’d use a brilliant new resource from Matt Jacobs. It’s a project called SixtySixBooks. Basically it provides an intro to different books of the Bible in a way that youth can understand along with a sample reading plan.

We’re using Graham Stanton’s notes on the Psalms.

What strategies do you use to help young people dig into God’s word?

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The Incomparable God gives strength to the weary

On Sunday night we had a special year 12 church service. It was encouraging to be able to pray for them and preach to them. I spoke from Isaiah 40 encouraging people to lift up their eyes to see the Incomparable God who offers strength to those who put their hope in him.

Here’s a link to the mp3. I hope it’s helpful for those who need a bigger picture perspective.

The Incomparable God gives strength to the weary – Isaiah 40 – Dave Miers
(right-click etc to download)

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Music Appreciation Night – Song List

Row proposed that we have a night of square-dancing to finish our term together as a Small Group. Luckily we didn’t do square dancing. Instead we had a ‘Music Appreciation Night’. It was so much fun. Each person in our group had to have 2 songs prepared (with another 2 backups) to play for the rest of the group. It was cool to hear different songs and be introduced to music for the first time.

Before each song was played we introduced it to the group, made a few comments afterwards, took further questions or comments and then moved on to the next person. We basically did two laps of the room.

Here are the songs from each round:
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SOULIES Leadership Crew 2011

Soulies recently went away on our youth camp, Mission Impossible. It was a sweet, sweet, encouraging time in Philippians. Here’s a pic of our youth leaders. They’re legends:

I’ve been writing less on this blog this month, but increasing content on our youth website. Here are the latest 10 posts:

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Get Fit for Summer… or Eternity

Summer is coming. It’s time to get fit and healthy! But eternity is also coming. Physical training is of some value, but it’s got nothing on training in godliness. Godliness will prepare you for eternity. Here is a sermon I recently preached on godliness from 1 Timothy 4:4-16…

TRAINING IN GODLINESS – Dave Miers mp3 (right click to download etc)

Structure:

ARE YOU READY FOR ETERNITY?
1) GODLINESS HAS VALUE FOR ALL THINGS
2) DELIBERATE TRAINING IN GODLINESS
3) EXAMPLES OF GODLINESS
4) THE PRIORITY OF THE WORD OF GOD
INVEST IN ETERNITY.