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Prayer and youthwork
We had a woman volunteer in September. She didn’t mean to, but there were five students without adult sponsors. For months she met with those girls on Sunday mornings, talking with them, remembering their birthdays, and saying a short prayer. But not much happened. They weren’t a group. They didn’t bond. So she prayed for […]
There’s Someone pursuing those you pray for
When I pray for friends who don’t believe Jesus is God, I search Scripture for ways to pray. Just today an encouragement from an old poem came to mind. It’s not Scripture, but you can trace its roots there . . . I fled Him, down the nights and down the days I fled Him, […]
If you were Jesus
Let’s say you were Jesus, come to earth as the Messiah. The Redeemer. Born at the appointed time and place, as prophesied, to a virgin prepared by angelic visitation, and confirmed at the Temple by Simeon and Anna on your eighth day, your life is the focal point of scriptural anticipation. Not to mention all […]
Farming
Think about organizing your students into the “soil” types of Mark 4:3-20. • Dead, deaf, and blind to the gospel • Easy come, easy go • Sincere but tempted away • Committed That’s a starting point. A place to begin shepherding. There are buried treasures in Scripture — passages to pray for each category of […]
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