Grace Youth Gathering
What would a content life look like for you? How do obtain contentment?
Are you consumed with following the rules or consumed with the One who rules?
How do you engage with people of different faiths and what do you do when you disagree with someone's views?
If we are not actively living out our faith we are losing our faith. In Philippians 2:12-18 Paul challenges us to put our faith in action so that others may come to faith. We may be the only Jesus our friends see.
What does it mean to live as citizens of heaven and why does Paul use language like fight, wrestle and struggle when it comes to the Gospel.
What does it mean to have an attitude like Christ and why is it so important to serve?
Have you ever been in a win-win situation? That's what God offers us with this life and the one to come.
Our priorities are going to dictate what we do and how we respond to life. So what are your priorities and do you really, actually care about the Jesus story?
When Paul prays that "our love may more and more overflow," what did he mean and what does that look like in our lives?
What is communion and why do we do it? We explore three different Bible passages and discuss.
When someone begins a relationship with Jesus, the churchy word for that is salvation; or being saved. But what does that actually mean?
When it comes to prayer, many people just dive into telling God everything that we need or want, and in the process we often overlook the importance of listening. What does it mean to listen to God and how do we do it?
What is prayer and how should we approach conversations with God?
Social Media can be a powerful tool to use. Adam McLane looks at five tweetable Bible passages that even though they are 140 characters or less, they pack quite the punch!
Many people argue against Christianity and the Bible because they feel the Bible condones slavery. What does the Bible actually say about this issue? And is the slavery that is discussed in the Bible the same thing we faced in the 17th Century, or today?
Does race, color and differences matter to God? If so, how? Should there be a difference in how you parent kids of different races? Or are their universal things that matter no matter what color you are?
The story of Jonah is one of those funky stories in the Bible that make some people discredit the entire Bible. A man being swallowed by a fish is certainly hard to believe. Is it possible that the story of Jonah is fictional though, and does that change anything about the Bible as a whole? Or is the story definitely historical?
How you ever thought about running away from God - whether literally or figuratively? What can we learn from the story of Jonah about when we run the other way from Jesus?
Is the world better better or worse? And when you look at your future, are you fearful or hopeful?
Students share thoughts on three different scenarios about what they would do if they found themselves facing the situation.
How do we find out how God thinks about us and what does he actually think?
Should we as Jesus followers care what other people think of us?
How we see ourselves is a crucial issue that dictates our ability to give and receive love to both God and others.
How we see ourselves is a crucial issue that dictates our ability to give and receive love to both God and others.
What does it really mean to be an adult? Being financially independent? Having a job? Having a GOOD job? According to some of the leading phycologists and sociologists, it really can be boiled down to one main thing. And unfortunately, the struggle to embrace that one thing dates all the way back to the Garden of Eden.
During our teen years, a lot is being done to plan for our future, pad our college resumes and figure out what we want to do with our lives. Where does Jesus play into this picture and would God ever ask you to do something you don't want to?
Changes are going to come some are expected and some are unexpected. But in the end change will be for the better if we extend grace, learn from the mistakes and believe in the bigger picture. God always sees the bigger picture, we have to be willing to be redirected or changed so that we can grow and see the bigger picture.
Technology is only going to more quickly develop and change. What does the Bible have to say about our technology use? We can actually learn a lot from rocks and bricks...
Revelation is such a confusing book and who knows what everything really means. But what's the overall point and what can we take away for ourselves when it comes to preparing for the future?
As James closes off his letter, he discusses the power of prayer. What exactly is prayer though and how do we handle James' seeming promise that if you ask for prayer when you are sick, you WILL be healed.
In a world that is constantly moving and changing, but also demanding patience. James 5:7-12 challenges with the virtue of patience. James tells us how we should wait. We should wait with hope, wait with others, and wait thankfully.
Is having money and lots of stuff a bad thing? James starts chapter 5 by warning the rich about their wealth. But what does the warning actually entail and who does it apply to?
We're joined by PeaceWorks, the educations part of the Domestic Violence Crisis Center of Connecticut, for an interactive discussion about healthy relationships and establishing boundaries when dating. http://www.dvccct.org/
What role should planning have in our lives as a Christ follower? And according to the Bible, is planning actually a bad thing?
What does it take to be successful? More so, does God view success in the same way that the world view success?
Sticks and stones break my bones but words will never hurt me...is a complete lie! Our words have power and James was going so much deeper than just our vocabulary when we talked about taming our tongue.
Catholic? Baptist? Presbyterian? Why are there so many different kinds of churches and is one more right than another?
When it comes to a relationship with Jesus, what's more important: belief in Jesus or doing things for Jesus? James 2:14-26 answers this question with a resounding, "Yes!"
According to James we cannot play favorites –by excluding people based on race, gender, status, job or any of the “OTHER” group. We can’t just put people in boxes and say you’re fake, or you’re poor. We have to remember WE ALL (not they, them, those people) feel lonely, sad; we can all pretend to be happy and be dying on the inside. How do we take “those people” out of the box and extend a compliment, a gesture, try and show them humanity.
Deut. 32:11 - Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he spread his wings to take them up and carried them safely on his pinions.
How do you see yourself? Like, really, deep down, see yourself? What are the names you call yourself, the hurts you hold onto, the things other people have said that you cling to? And how does all that compare to the way that Jesus sees you?
Students share about what God taught them on our recent Winter Retreat and also what they learned from last weeks GYG: Eyes on the Prize
What is your New Year's resolution and how do you make sure you follow through with it?
The age old debate between Science and creation is a hot one among teens. This week, we open up a debate and ask students to share their views on wether both of these issues should be discussed in schools equally, if evolution and intelligent design can co-exist, if the big bang theory and genesis 1 can co-exist and if the "days" in Genesis one are literally 24-days or figurative.
What would it have been like to be either Joseph or Mary for the first Christmas and what can they tell us about how we should respond to stressful circumstances?
We live in a culture which continues to push us to have more, want more, own more, buy more...more, more more. Yet, is there a better way to live which actually involves having less?
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