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The Magazine for Youth Ministry
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There is an old fable from Aesop about a man who called his sons to his sick bed. "I am about to die," he said. "In my vineyard lies...
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"The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself."
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It was the first day of school. As the principal made his rounds, he heard a terrible commotion coming from one of the classrooms....
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One day the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo happened to overhear a group of people admiring his Pietà, a statue of Christ...
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"He who no longer reads should get out of the ministry."
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A fisherman from the city was out fishing on a lake in a small boat. He noticed another man in a small boat open his tackle box and...
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A first grade school teacher in Virginia presented each child in her classroom the first half of a well-known proverb and asked them...
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Marriage, Family
In a recent survey reported by the media, the Pew Research Center surveyed 2,020 adults concerning their views of marriage and childbearing. The results were quite enlightening. Non-marital childbearing numbers rose to 36.8 percent of all births in 2005, up from 5.3 percent in 1960. In the 1990s, only about a third of these non-marital births were to women co-habiting with their partners. Now almost half of all out-of-wedlock births are to women co-habiting with their partners. In addition, 47 percent of people in their 30s and 40s have lived in a co-habiting relationship. In spite of the rise in co-habitation, 71 percent of those surveyed think that births to unwed women are a “big problem” and 59 percent believe unmarried couples having children is bad for society. The task is challenging for the contemporary church to hold up the ideals of a Christian marriage and family to a society that continues to de-value them.
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Build your own portable garden!
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Dr. Gary Nelson, the author of 'A Relentless Hope,' discusses depression in teens.
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