Understanding self-mutilation among teenagers
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Likewise Books
Likewise books are meant to help you make those choices. The good news is that culture adapts and changes. So we can shape what it will be. We can make culture, faithfully. That's Likewise. Go and do.
Likewise books, at their best, should work like parables. Books like The New Friars or Practical Justice are pictures of active faith meant to inspire you to get onto your donkey, or into your '92 Geo Metro, and go and do something similar. Something "likewise."
http://ivpress.com/likewisebooks/
Arcade Fire video The Wilderness Downtown: pain, growing up, healing, which Jesus can answer
Remarkable video from Chris Milk (who has previously worked on the Johnny Cash Project) and friends at Google who have produced an experimental HTML5 multi-screen video called The Wilderness Downtown, based on Arcade Fire’s new song We Used To Wait. The concept is thought-provoking (read recent online comment) and the lyric deals with issues of pain, bewilderment and hope, which are therefore valuable conversation starters. There’s big potential to use in a youth group or discussion setting. Some leaders are already considering how to use it as a component of an outreach meeting. It’s also a concept that could be adapted to extend this ministry potential.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2444
Lies Young Women Believe Companion Guide (Sample Chapter)
Download a sample chapter (and more!) from the Lies Young Women Believe Companion Guide.
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/downloads/index.php?id=10128
Free From Lies: Truth for Young Women
Experience the great freedom and joy of walking in the Truth!
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/downloads/index.php?id=9908
Revive Our Hearts: Girls Gone Wise, with Mary Kassian
The phrase "girls gone wild" has entered pop culture vocabulary over the last couple years. But it’s a very old concept. Proverbs 7 describes a girl gone wild, showing us how destructive her behavior is. Mary Kassian unpacks this chapter, inviting you to be a girl gone wise.
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/series.php?series=340&topic_name=Biblical Womanhood
Revive Our Hearts: Graffiti with Erin Davis
Young women face so many pressures to fit the world’s definition of beauty. That definition is unattainable, and many women turn to destructive behaviors in the pursuit. Learn how to find your real value, as Nancy and Erin Davis explore true beauty.
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/series.php?series=319&topic_name=Biblical Womanhood
Love or lust - video clip comparison for sex versus love
Grainger Community Church have produced this effective video clip.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/312
Pop and teens: using pop music as a start point in Christian youth evangelism
Since the 60s, most young people have listened to music for hours every day, read music magazines, and defined themselves and their culture by this interest. Music is the wallpaper of their lives and a very deep part of the identity of most teens. It shapes their worldview and defines them more than clothes, films, even TV. It is therefore a prime bridge point into youth culture. Is this potential being used for online evangelism? Very little.
http://internetevangelismday.com/pop-music.php
Book review: E-ministry - Connecting with the Net Generation, by Andrew Careaga
Today’s teens and children inhabit an electronic world – one still perhaps foreign to many church leaders. How should the church respond to a generation that seeks spiritual guidance from Web sites and chat rooms? In eMinistry, author Andrew Careaga offers a cutting-edge look at the creative use of online technology to reach the “Net Generation”.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/eministry.php
Youth in the Bible: 1 Timothy 4:12
The family of God is open to all people, young and old alike. Just because you're young doesn't mean you don't have a critical contribution to make to the church; as this verse says, youthful lack of experience shouldn't stop anyone from setting a Christlike example for others--even their elders--to follow.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%204:12&version=NIV

