Bible Lessons for Youth Spring 2019 Leader
About this ebook
This trust curriculum has been refreshed, while keeping everything you love about the resources. Bible Lessons for Youth is a comprehensive 6-year Bible-to-life curriculum that helps teens apply the Bible to their real-life. Its teacher-friendly format is built around a step-by-step sequence with thought-provoking activities designed to help youth understand Scripture and apply it to their individual experiences.
Designed to make teaching Bible Lessons for Youth to your youth easy with each session broken up into small segments. The student book is reproduced as the center piece of each session in the leader guide and is surrounded by the minute-by-minute teaching plans printed in the margin. The instructions are provided for student book activities, discussion questions, illustrative games and short drama skits. Complete Scripture texts are printed in all books. (No need to pause while everyone hunts for the appropriate verse.) At anytime during the quarter you can refer back to the convenient Overview section found at the front of the guide and also take a moment to read the “Teaching Tools” article provided at the back of the guide. Don’t forget to check out the “Out and About” activity that will allow your students to take what they learn in Sunday school outside the classroom, enhancing their faith journey.
Begin
The Bible Lessons for Youth format of “Explore,” “Focus,” and “Connect” is an intentional learning approach to help teens FOCUS on the original context, EXPLORE how the passage speaks to their lives, and CONNECT with how to live out God’s Word in their daily lives and in the world.
Key Verse
Taken from the passage printed in the student book, this verse can be used to emphasize Scripture memorization in your class.
Take-Away
This is the basic point of the lesson and is summed up in a short sentence. It’s the big idea you want your teens to grasp from each week’s session.
Bible Lesson
For easy access, the Scripture passage your class or group will explore is taken from the Common English Bible, and are coordinated with the Uniform Lesson Series. Contains options for younger and older youth.
About the author
Jacob Fasig has been working in youth ministry since 1997. He is a coauthor of Now What: Next Steps for Your New Life in Christ, and he enjoys playing music and cycling. Jacob is married to Allison, has two daughters, and currently serves as minister of discipleship at Gladeville United Methodist Church, on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee.
Julie Conrady, writer of teacher articles, has written for Bible Lessons for Youth since 2006. She has taught all ages in churches and in schools, but especially likes working with youth. She currently serves as a Chaplain Intern at a local hospital and enjoys scrapbooking, reading, and playing videogames in her spare time. She lives in Norman, Oklahoma, with her husband Josh, dog MollyJane, and black cats Seuss and SamIAm.
Mary Bernard is a writer and editor and has worked in Christian education for more than twenty years. She’s a regular contributor to Bible Lesson for Youth and enjoys blogging and cooking. Visit her online at www.writingmomof3.com.
Mike Poteet is a freelance writer and Teaching Elder (ordained minister) in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He regularly contributes to Christian education resources for youth and adults, and has authored several literature study guides. In his free time, Mike blogs about intersections of faith and pop culture for The Sci-Fi Christian (www.thescifichristian.com). He is an active Sunday school teacher in a congregation near Philadelphia, PA. Follow him on Twitter (@WriterMPoteet).
Jason Sansbury is veteran youth worker and retreat speaker who currently lives in Nashville. He is a lover of stories in their many forms, from movies, television, novels and comics. He enjoys the tribe of youth workers and is dedicated to helping equip and train the next generation of youth leaders and youth workers. He currently serves at Belle Meade UMC and as a youth ministry coach for the Center for Youth Ministry Training.