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Western themed Bible Study Series
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December 30, 2008

New Year’s Revolution

Ready for a change in your life? (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.09 (11 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: New Year Resolutions, change

Winter

"Is it winter right now in the season of your life? Are you feeling depressed...alone...overlooked...spiritually on 'hold'...cold...barren? Beginning to wonder if your soul will ever thaw? Entertaining doubts that behind those thick, gray clouds there exists a personal, caring God?" (more)

icon-resource_reviews.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Resource Reviews
Average: 3.29 (14 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: winter, depression, loneliness

December 29, 2008

Target Practice

Is it the proper Christian response to knock others down in order to be lifted up, or to simply lift others up? (more)

icon-object_lessons.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Object Lessons
Average: 3.00 (14 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: The greatest and least, first and last, humility, pride, criticism, harsh words, edifying speech, edification, encouragement, discouragement, back-biting, gossip, cutting others down, building others up

December 28, 2008

Remote Control

What if life were like a TV remote control where you could rewind and play again after you had learned the correct response from scripture? (more)

icon-creative_teaching_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:51 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Creative Teaching Ideas
Average: 3.54 (13 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: peer pressure, decision making, choices, application, moral dilemma, children's sermon, object lessons

December 27, 2008

5 Million Hits

5 Million hits! (more)

icon-announcements.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 11:32 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Announcements
Average: 3.42 (12 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords:

Unless the Corn Die

May your life yield a harvest for God! (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 11:20 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.36 (11 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: sacrifice, obedience, die to self, farmer, preacher

Two Nickels and Five Pennies

Graciousness is something we can learn regardless of our age. (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 11:16 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.40 (10 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: gracious, child, patience, coins, ice cream, waitress, giving

December 26, 2008

Rabbit on the Swim Team

Each individual has his/her own set of capabilities in which he/she will naturally excel. (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 11:11 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.71 (7 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: gifts, body of Christ, expectations, abilities

December 25, 2008

Blessed Christmas

Here's wishing everyone a blessed Christmas! May Christ shine in your hearts the whole year through! In appreciation for your support of the Creative Youth Ideas website I want to give you a very practical Christmas gift. It's a Youth... (more)

icon-announcements.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Announcements
Average: 2.46 (13 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
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December 24, 2008

Top 20 things overheard on the Wise men's journey

A little Christmas Humor at the expense of the wise men... (more)

icon-humor.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 11:32 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 3.33 (15 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: wise men, humor, jokes

December 17, 2008

Christmas Old, Christmas New

Christ embodies Christmas today just as he did when he was born. (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 11:00 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.71 (14 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas, Christ, traditions, true meaning of Christmas is in Christ

December 16, 2008

Christmas Shoebox

Give a gift to those in need this Christmas (more)

icon-evangelism_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 05:49 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Evangelism Ideas
Average: 2.73 (15 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas gift, giving, needy families

December 15, 2008

The Glory of the Manger

Your Savior has at long last come (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:13 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 3.00 (28 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: manger, Christmas poem, poetry

December 14, 2008

Christmas Gift Exchange with a twist

In this Christmas Gift exchange, it is affirmations that are exchange and not actual physical gifts. It's a very powerful way to bring your teens closer together and remind them that everyone in the group is a gift and that the greatest present you can give all year round, is to give of yourself as a blessing to others. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 09:54 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 3.05 (21 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas Gifts, Christmas present, Giving of yourself, God gave, the greatest gift

December 13, 2008

Christmas Snowball Tag

In this Christmas variation of a game of dodge-ball, you can still play even if you have been eliminated. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 09:44 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.85 (20 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas Party Games, Holiday Game ideas, dodge-ball, dodgeball, winter games

December 12, 2008

Progressive Santa

Everyone knows how Santa Claus looks right? The red hat, the black belt, rosy cheeks... But how well can you draw him? (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:28 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.95 (22 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Santa Claus, St. Nick, Christmas Party Game

December 11, 2008

Christmas Humor

A little Christmas Humor to give you a few holiday chuckles. (more)

icon-humor.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Humor
Average: 2.73 (26 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas jokes, Christmas humor, Christmas sarcasm

December 10, 2008

Christmas Quotes - Christmas All Year Round

We should have the spirit of Christmas in our lives all throughout the year and not just at Christmas time. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.93 (27 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas Spirit, Christmas sentiment

December 09, 2008

Christmas Quotes - The True Meaning of Christmas

Christmas Quotes refelcting the True meaning of Christmas - That Christ was born to us - Our savior came down to live among us, and eventually die for us on a cross. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 2.76 (29 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: True meaning of Christmas, Incarnation, Virgin Birth, Birth of Christ, A Savior is Born

Christmas Quotes - A Childlike Christmas

Christmas is for everyone: for Children and for adults who have forgotten what it is like to be children. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.03 (29 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas Spirit, Childlike heart, Christmas through the eyes of a child

December 08, 2008

Exmas

Thoughts on how we celebrate Christmas from C.S. Lewis (more)

icon-resource_reviews.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Resource Reviews
Average: 3.32 (22 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas Spirit, true meaning of Christmas, Holiday celebrations, Christmas traditions

Christmas Quotes - A Christmas Heart

A collection of Quotes that discuss the true Christmas Spirit that should shine in our hearts. (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.42 (19 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas Heart, Christmas Spirit

December 07, 2008

A-Z Christmas

Can you think of a holiday word or phrase that starts with each letter of the alphabet? (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 09:44 PM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 2.52 (27 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas alphabet, party game

December 06, 2008

Pass the Orange (Christmas Variation)

Participants must pass an orange down a line of participants using only their chins. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 3.00 (19 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: orange, relay game, Christmas, Chinese New Year, party games

December 05, 2008

Christmas Quotes - Giving

various quotes related to Christmas and Giving (more)

icon-food_for_thought.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Food for Thought
Average: 3.03 (34 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas Quotes, giving, Christmas gifts

December 04, 2008

Christmas, So You Think You Can Dance?

Are you ready to dance to the Christmas Tunes? (more)

Posted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category:
Average: 2.77 (30 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas music, dance, Christmas Tunes, Christmas Party ideas

December 03, 2008

The Twelve Days of Christmas Birthdays

Use this Christmas Party game involving the popular Christmas tune "The Twelve Days of Christmas" to raise the energy level and get everyone involved. (more)

icon-game_ideas.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 12:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Game Ideas
Average: 3.30 (27 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: Christmas Party Game ideas, birthday of Jesus, Christmas songs

December 02, 2008

Obstacles to Prayer Groups

Learn how to keep your youth prayer meeting exciting and relevant so that people are eager to attend. (more)

icon-youth_ministry.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Youth Ministry
Average: 2.97 (36 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: prayer, speaking to God, corporate prayer, youth prayer meetings, communication with God

December 01, 2008

Height of a Building

We need to bring our problems to God. (more)

icon-teaching_illustrations.jpgPosted by Ken Sapp at 08:00 AM | | Comments (0)
Category: Teaching Illustrations
Average: 2.92 (40 votes) | Rate It: 1 2 3 4 5 | (5="Great", 1="Bad")
Keywords: prayer, prayer requests, seeking God, Asking God