Dear Friends of Scripture Union USA,
We know you share our desire to make the Gospel known to children, youth, and families, as well as adults. Recent Pew and Barna research tells us that approximately half of the youth in America identify as Christian. A quick Google search on Christian youth statistics brings alarming headlines indicating a serious decline in faith and a significant increase in depression and anxiety. There’s no doubt this ...
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Scripture Union USA Media Release
Has the pandemic changed the way young people engage with the Bible forever?
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An international consultation on the way Scripture Union teams around the world engage children and young people in the Bible and nurture disciples begins this week. Scripture Union is a network of independent national movements who are working in 130 countries worldwide.
More than 100 ...
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Three Steps to Study Proverbs
Proverbs is part of wisdom literature, along with Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Job and Song of Songs. There are two major genres of proverbs. One is sayings, short wisdom sentences with contrasts, such as “the fool” and “the wise”, lazy and industrious, good and evil, right and wrong, helpful and selfish.
One example of that is found in Proverbs 19:1, “Better the poor whose walk is blameless that a fool whose lips are perverse.”
The second major ...
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