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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Theme
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Theme
The entire Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are unified by a common narrative. And once our eyes are opened to see that narrative, everything in both Testaments gets into a coherent, understandable, and amazing story. And what is that story? It's the story of Jesus ...
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Purpose
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Purpose
What I began to see was that the Bible is not essentially, as I had always more or less supposed, a book of ethical principles, of moral exhortations, of cautionary tales about exemplary people, of uplifting thoughts - in fact, not really a religious book at all in the sense that most of ...
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Transformation
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Transformation
Transformation occurs when scripture is viewed as a place of encounter with God that is approached by yielding the false self and its agenda, by opening one's self unconditionally to God, and by a hunger to respond in love to whatever God desires.
Robert Mulholland, "Shaped by the ...
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Story
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Story
Humanity is telling its own story, improvising scenarios, creating roles for itself- for all the other creatures, too, and of course for God! The roles that humanity creates are - in the view of these witnesses to God's story - almost always not the roles intended for it. Humanity does not have any real ...
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Theology
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Theology
Scripture engagement is interacting with the biblical text in a way that provides sufficient opportunity for the text to speak for itself by the power of the Holy Spirit, enabling readers and listeners to hear the voice of God and discover for themselves the ...
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Engagement
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Engagement
Bible engagement is peeling back the covers of God's Word to discover the hopes and promises of the Bible and discovering what God has to say to you, no matter what your situation; that results in hearts changed, lives transformed and an unrelenting drive to be like Jesus to this broken world.
Forum of ...
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Bible
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Bible
We love God's Word in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, echoing the joyful delight
of the Psalmist in the Torah, "I love your commands more than gold ... Oh how I love your law."
We receive the whole Bible as the Word of God, inspired by ...
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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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