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God Rules: The Ten Commandments

by Mike and Marlene Bogard

Junior youth are constantly facing rules at school, in sports, and at home. Whatever the rules are, and however much sense they make, youth are making their own decisions about how they'll respond. This five-session study looks at the Ten Commandments as God's gracious outline of a way of life that works. Youth will discover how they can relate best to God and others, and how they can faithfully manage their time and resources. They will find that God's rules are not just a bunch of do's and don'ts, but a loving invitation to life.

9213 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Encountering Jesus

by Frank Ramirez

Who is this first-century Jewish teacher who turned the world upside down in his day, and continues to attract so much attention in ours? In this five-session interactive study, youth will discover how Jesus' mission of healing and salvation connects with their own issues, such as what it means to be great, dealing with fear in the face of opposition, keeping on track with one's life goals, even if it costs. In the process, youth will be invited to follow Jesus as Lord of their lives.

9187 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Friends Forever

by Julie Ellison-White

Junior high youth are preoccupied with friends--making them, keeping them, and being valued in their eyes. But what is a good friend? This study explores biblical models of friendship, such as David and Jonathan, Jesus and his friends, and Paul and Barnabas. These godly friendships have qualities of loyalty, service, and openness, which are sometimes in short supply in the youth culture. 5 sessions.

9188 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Get Real: God and Media

by Mark Kelley

Media can be like an idol, distracting youth from God. This five-session study helps junior high youth learn how modern media desensitizes us to the real world, and holds up false heroes and unhealthy ideals, including violence and materialism. They will see how Jesus is a different kind of "superstar," and is worthy to be followed.

4031 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

God's Gift of Sex

by Carol Duerksen

This five-session study helps youth get beyond media messages, and think about sexuality in ways that are biblical and healthy. Through sensitive discussion, fun dramatizations of Bible stories, and thought-provoking handouts, God's Gift of Sex upholds God's ideals of marriage, honest relationships, and respect. It also helps kids begin to deal with issues of abuse, date rape, and peer pressure.

3179 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Online with the Holy Spirit

by Debbie Eisenbise

Junior high young people often have powerful encounters with God's invisible movement in their lives. How can they explain it? How can they experience it more as they follow Christ? This five-session study brings alive the Bible's key teaching on the Holy Spirit's work in the world and in our lives: guiding, encouraging, empowering, and recreating.

3388 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Winning: Competition and Faith

by Terry Goertzen

Junior youth are at an age of increased involvement, and sometimes experience pressure to compete and succeed. This five-session Bible study will help them establish healthy values and behavior patterns as they enter the world of competition in sports, music and academics.

3149 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Say What? The Power of the Tongue

by Helen Johns

A five-session Bible study for junior high youth on how to harness their words in a way that honors God and builds others up. This study will reinforce their understanding of the power of words to encourage or injure and help them grapple biblically with how God wants us to order our speech.

0337 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Say What? The Power of the Tongue

by Helen Johns

A five-session Bible study for junior high youth on how to harness their words in a way that honors God and builds others up. This study will reinforce their understanding of the power of words to encourage or injure and help them grapple biblically with how God wants us to order our speech.

0337 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Awesome God

by Gareth Brandt

This five-session study for junior highs will help them know God as one who offers security, unconditional love, and an attentive ear. They will learn about God's power to save and strengthen them, as well as the accountability that comes with knowing God sees all.

3353 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Some Body!

by Steve Ropp

This five-session study helps youth overcome their natural anxieties and learn to care for their bodies and celebrate them in ways that please God. Through fun and engaging activities, the unit deals biblically with issues of self-esteem, sexuality, physical fitness, and the pressures to pollute the body with alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and unhealthy diet. It encourages youth to be aware of, and take care of, God's great gift of the body.

3337 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

What Gives? Using God's Money

by Michele Hershberger

This new Fast Lane unit addresses some of the questions that junior high youth face as they start to earn, save, give, and spend money: Whose money is it anyway? How should I spend it? What am I saving for? Through interactive Bible study, youth are challenged with the notion that money is a gift from God and that the most joyful use of money is in the promotion of God's kingdom.

3455 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Unmasking the End Times

by Kathy Giesbrecht

What is Revelation telling us? What do you need to know? This unit helps youth understand apocalyptic imagery and end-time speculation. Offering youth a vision of the future based on God's Word, this five-session study invites them to place their hope in the living God.

3116 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Peace Heroes

by Christine Neufeld

This active, five-session study helps junior high youth challenge the violence around them by promoting "heroes" who live out Christ's call to be peacemakers. It examines the lives of five people who worked for peace--Jesus, Mother Teresa, Francis of Assisi, John Perkins, and Muriel Lester. It combines the stories of these peace heroes with Scripture to inspire youth to become peacemakers in their communities.

0306 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Understanding Gangs

by Carol Duerksen

A ground-breaking, four-session study uses familiar Scripture texts from Genesis, Daniel, Samuel and John to explore the modern-day influence of gangs. Includes a parents take-home sheet to build support and awareness.

2454 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Celebrating Advent

by Helen Johns

A unique five-session study that helps junior high students prepare for and anticipate the celebration of Christ's birth. Through various activities and worship events youth are exposed to the familiar and not-so-familiar aspects of the Christmas story. The final, youth-led worship celebration can be shared with the entire congregation.

2292 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Challenging Racism

by Jody Miller Shearer

This four-session Bible study examines racism and challenges students to work at changing systems that oppress people of color. Discussions and activities will help young people envision an inclusive church, identify barriers of prejudice, consider how and why privileges are given to white people, and work at dismantling systems that discriminate.

2101 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Living the Beatitudes

by Abe Bergen

An eight-session Bible study focusing on the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. Lessons challenge students to become followers of God by following Christ's example. The material helps young people: seek God's guidance, ask for and receive forgiveness, turn control over to God, strive for justice, respond with compassion, examine their motivations, and become peacemakers.

0211 $12.99 U.S. / $20.29 Can.

Living without Violence

by Jody Miller Shearer

A five-session Bible study encourages youth to live nonviolently. Through storytelling, activities, and scriptural reflection, students discover there are many ways, outside of violence, to deal with anger. They will become familiar with nonviolent responses, discover the importance of honesty in times of conflict, and form a new perspective on their relationships with "the enemy."

6888 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.

Praying the Lord's Prayer

by Glaphré

This inspiring, five-session study uses the familiar Matthew 6 text to help junior high students become more comfortable with the act of prayer. It seeks to move prayer beyond form and function to become the intimate fellowship God intended it to be.

2322 $9.99 U.S. / $9.99 Can.