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Jen Robertson | Children’s Resources Manager This is often the time of year when we start to think of giving gifts to the young people and children in our church families and communities. In days gone by, we […]
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Easter is a time of year when many people who don’t normally go to church will attend a service. This year those numbers may swell even more.
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The Easter story is about loss, sadness, death and betrayal. When talking to children about Easter, we might be tempted to just fast forward to Sunday and not get bogged down too much about what happened before that.
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Christmas is an easy time to find ways for children and young people to explore the Bible for the first time, with many excellent resources created each year by churches and organisations across the world.
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One of the simplest and most powerful things we can do to introduce our friends, family and neighbours to the Bible is to give them a Gospel.
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Trauma is a deep wound of the heart and mind that takes a long time to heal. It hurts every part of us: our relationships, our bodies, our thoughts and our faith.
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Grace Gatherings are designed to help create spaces where the Bible can be talked about in a natural way, as part of our normal lives
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That was the question we asked ourselves at the Scottish Bible Society last year
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“Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.” (Acts 8:4) What if we saw the crisis we are passing through as a Gospel moment for Scotland? What if, like the disciples in Acts 8, scattered as we are in the cities, […]
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