Meet 50 of the Bible's most outrageous and amazing people. You'll find out what happened when God went major rad with His Wild Truth--and you'll discover how God can do the same thing right now in your life. Check out some of the people you'll get to know: - Skipper (pulls off major animal style Rescue 911) - Hammerhead (gives a bad dude a permanent headache) - LAZ (a dead guy. . Until You-Know-Who comes along) - Moe's Mom (sends her son on THE river-rafting trip of all time) - Bad Luck Boils (overcomes major zit problem) . . .and dozens of other folks you've just gotta meet! Open up Wild Truth Journal - and dare to discover the power of God's love.

Wild Truth Journal for Junior Highers

Oestreicher, Mark

Religion & Spirituality

Zondervan

Ready to introduce your junior highers to wild examples of spiritual maturity? Check out biblical adventures of these people and the character qualities they exemplify -- real people who, in wild Bible stories, did really wild things for God: - Kid King . . . Josiah (influencing others) - Wise Guy, the King of Good Decisions . . . Solomon (wise decisions) - Little Timmy, the Teenage Teacher . . . Timothy (living for God while still a young teen) - Dave's posse . . . David's mighty men (doing outrageous things for God) - Whiney Bro, the Fair-Share Demander . . . the Prodigal Son's brother (demanding your rights) - Moe's Mom, the Cruise Director . . . Moses' mother (trusting God in difficult situations) - Pete, the Second-Chance Wonder . . . Peter (God's forgiveness) - Samantha, the Water Woman . . . the woman at the well (racism). You won't believe all the off-the-wall discussion starters, video ideas, scripts, games with a point -- and, of course, Bible passages you can use to springboard junior highers into topics that don't just mean the world to them, but are the world. Friendship. Embarrassment. Rights. Racism. Each lesson reaches back into history to underline for junior highers the reality of Old and New Testament people and principles -- and then reaches forward, challenging your students to make better decisions, better friends, better lives. Each lesson thoroughly preps you to teach it, including convenient reminders of what materials you need and when you need them. And in each lesson students dig into Wild Pages that bring scriptural principles right into the kids' own experience. 12 lessons

Wild Truth Bible Lessons

To Be a Junior High Youth Worker . . . takes a distinct kind of adult, just as junior highers are a distinct kind of people. Betwixt and between though they may be, early adolescents are as capable of a genuine spiritual understanding and growth as high schoolers. It’s just that junior highers absorb Bible teaching and demonstrate their spirituality—well, differently. Help! I’m a Junior High Youth Worker! is your primer for understanding young teenagers, then teaching them with a mind-set and with methods that fit them. First Things First. Three axioms that define your territory as a junior high youth worker. So Just What Is a Junior Higher, Anyway? The essence of early adolescence: the need for appropriate rules . . . the dilemma of throwing sixth graders and eighth graders together in the same program . . . small is good. Developmentally Speaking. Changes junior highers enjoy and endure cognitively, emotionally, socially, spiritually . . . their changing relationships with parents . . . individuation and hair under their arms. Time to Teach! Your required dose of pedagogy: the case for fun learning . . . ten top teaching topics for middle school ministry . . . how simulations, role plays, and storytelling can be your best teaching methods for early adolescents. Faith Outside the Youth Room. Spiritual discipleship for middle schoolers: they don’t have to be high schoolers to begin forming habits of prayers, service, and outreach. Help! I’m a Junior High Youth Worker! is help at hand surviving and thriving in ministry to early adolescents.

Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!

Wild Bible characters . . . wild activities, games, discussion starters, and video ideas . . . wild truths for living. Put them all together, blend well, and you’ve got Wild Truth Bible Lessons 2--12 more dynamite lessons for junior high youth groups by Mark Oestreicher. Like its fun, creative predecessor, Wild Truth Bible Lessons, this book invites kids to discover the adventure of faith through the events and responses of real Bible people who did wild things for God. Based on another 12 personalities from the list of characters in Wild Truth Journal: 50 Life Lessons from the Scriptures, each lesson reaches back into history to help junior highers learn about Bible people and principles--and then reaches forward to challenge students to make better decisions, better friends, and better lives. 12 lessons.

Wild Truth Bible Lessons 2

Christian Books & Bibles

Ministry & Evangelism

Here’s a devotional Bible-study journal for junior highers that uses metaphors--or "pictures"--taken straight from Scripture to reveal God’s nature. By picturing God as artist, baby, dad, eagle, jealous lover, lion, and so forth, students will discover who God is, what he does ― and in the process, practice the habit of regular, open-book Bible study that leads to a change in thinking and behavior. Each of the 50 two-page journaling devotionals reveals a particular character trait of God in a picture junior highers can relate to, then challenges them to put it in motion in their own lives.

Wild Truth Journal--Pictures of God

Temple, Todd

Here are 12 active Bible lessons for junior high Sunday school classes or youth group meetings, each one based on one of the 50 pictures of God presented in Wild Truth Journal: Pictures of God--energetically, relevantly, and scripturally. The lessons are loaded with off-the-wall and easy-to-do discussion starters, video ideas, scripts, and games with a point. And of course, there are plenty of Bible passages and studies to springboard junior highers from the abstract into the concrete as (open Bibles in hand) they explore the nature of God in a lively, relevant way --- then begin practicing the traits of God in their own lives. 12 lessons.

Wild Truth Bible Lessons--Pictures of God

Zondervan/Youth Specialties

The Bible is a photo album, brimming with self-portraits of a God who wants to be known. God has put these pictures in the Bible to reveal his character. By examining them, we discover who God is and why he’s worth knowing better. And we discover something else: who he wants us to be. He wants us to copy his picture into our own character. Wild Truth Bible Lessons--Pictures of God 2 is a guide to 12 God-pictures taken straight from the Photo Album. They are active Bible lessons for junior high and middle school Sunday school classes or youth group meetings, each one based on one of the 50 pictures of God and presented energetically, relevantly, and scripturally in the companion student book Wild Truth Journal: Pictures of God. The lessons are loaded with off-the-wall and easy-to-do discussion starters, video ideas, scripts, games with a point. And, of course, Bible passages and studies that springboard junior highers from the abstract into the concrete as (open Bibles in hand) they explore the nature of God in a lively, relevant way, and then begin practicing in their own lives the traits of God.Here’s how the lessons are organized: * Picture Prep grabs your group’s attention to prepare them for what’s ahead.* Action Shot takes your students into the Bible to catch God in the act of revealing his character.* Self-Portrait explores the given aspect of God’s character…how it makes God just that much more awesome...and why it’s a very good trait for us to have, too.* Print It! challenges your students to print God’s picture into their own lives by living out his character in an immediately practical way.12 lessons

Wild Truth Bible Lessons--Pictures of God 2

An essential speaking tool for youth workers These 40 outlines for youth talks--written by veteran youth leaders--are just the beginning. Youth pastors, volunteer youth leaders, camp directors and counselors, and retreat leaders will also find suggestions for bringing talks to life--with illustrations, object lessons, video clips, music, and more. Each outline is followed by dozens of questions for use in small groups--to ensure that your words are heard, processed, and applied. Features include: * Sidebars for every main point which contain key illustrations, object lessons, and video or music clip suggestions * Dozens of small group discussion questions for middle and high schoolers * Fully indexed by contributor, topic, and Scripture * All of the outlines are compiled onto a companion CD-ROM in Microsoft Word format

Great Talk Outlines for Youth Ministry

Weekly studies to reinforce what junior highers are learning from their Wild Truth Journal These Bible lessons send students straight to the words of Jesus to discover the truth, then dare them to live that truth today. Includes games, activities, sketches, handouts, and reproducible worksheets.

Wild Truth Bible Lessons - Dares from Jesus

Ever Play “Truth and Dare”? The rules have changed! “You can’t handle the truth!!!” ―Col. Jessup in the movie A Few Good Men “The Truth shall set you free…and I dare you to live it!” ―Jesus Christ in the Bible (paraphrased) Inside this little book is some of the most radical, challenging, hilarious, serious, truthful, daring stuff you’ll meet in your entire life! After getting into Wild Truth Journal―Dares from Jesus, you will never read the worlds of Jesus the same again. “Nice story, “good examples,” and “great teaching” will leave your vocabulary. Jesus was not about begging or arguing or persuading: He spoke the Truth―and dares us, even today―to LIVE it! Scary? NO! Exciting!!! Wild Truth Journal―Dares from Jesus shows you, 50 times over, ways to let the beautiful, blazing light of Jesus’ words into your soul…and in each case a variety of ways to act on them, to exercise them, to profit from them, to bless by them…to change your life through them! Every encouraging devotion is like a silver platter, serving up the words of Jesus, and then breaking down Truth into “What Jesus Said” and “What Jesus Meant” sections; and presenting the challenging Dares into “He Was Talking to Me!” and “Take the Dare!” exercises. After Wild Truth Journal―Dares from Jesus, you’ll never see Jesus’ words the same again. You’ll never see yourself the same way again.

Wild Truth Journal--Dares from Jesus

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