InWord Online - The "After Valentine's Day" Issue

The "After Valentine's Day" Issue

February 2011

In This Issue

check box yes or no 1. From Barry: InWord Director

2. Try This: A Valentine's Day Debrief

3. Media Presentation: Own 1 John 4:11-12

4. Free Session: What's Love Got to Do with It?

5. Featured Resource: Since God So Loved

6. InWord Online: Real Content.Real Tools.Real Free.

7. Check out InWord!

We knew the timing of the February issue of InWord Online wouldn't land conveniently for Valentine's Day use. (You DO have your discipleship/teaching mapped out through February 14 don't you?) So we're going with the next best, a Valentine's Day follow up. Which, when you think about it, is a picture of the Christian journey: a lifelong reaction to the love God has shown us. You might also title this issue "everything you can do with 1 John 4:11-12"--read about it, teach it, memorize it.

1. From Barry: Reacting to Love in All the Right Ways

Does God's Word say anything about how we're react to God's love? The knee-jerk answer is "probably in every chapter." And yes, while Scripture is a comprehensive handbook on how to respond to God's love, there are some pinpoint passages that provide practical handles.

[read more]

2. Try This: A Valentine's Day Debrief

We've all had Valentine's Day fallout at some point in our lives: a crush realized, a crush crushed, etc. Use your students' after-Valentine's Day glow (or burn) as a springboard to explore a Scripture passage on how believers are to react to the love of God. This brief exercise can be used in a number of ways:

● as a devotional for a retreat/activity;

● as a teaching experience in your big group setting;

● as a standalone Bible study;

● as a personal mini-retreat for yourself.

[view/download PDF of exercise]

Make it a "wiki-session"! Post a comment on how you used this exercise! Your creativity will improve its application.

[post here]

3. Media Presentation: Own 1 John 4:11-12

Use this cool tool to fix in your heart, and the hearts of your students, this pinpointed passage about our reaction to God's love. You'll have this passage memorized (and chambered for life application) in less than 6 minutes.

[view/download presentation]

Make it a "wiki-presentation"! Post a comment on how you used this media presentation! Your creativity will encourage others in memorizing and applying 1 John 4:11-12.

[post here]

4. Free Session: What's Love Got to Do with It?

From InWord's popular small-group study, Crossing the Line: Moving from a Youth Group to a Youth Ministry, this session is the crux of transforming a group that expects to be ministered to into a group that expects to do the ministering.

[download Bible study here]

5. Featured (and Discounted!) Resource

Since God So Loved: Encountering Jesus in the Gospel of John

30-Day Student Devo

Discount: 25%!

We even have a resource with a title taken straight out of 1 John 4:11! Follow up your Valentine's Day season with this 30-day devotional in the gospel of John. This innovative, inductive devotional will help students grasp and react to the love God is pouring into their lives.

"'Devotional' isn't the word for it. Since God So Loved is an experience that takes students on an intimate encounter with Jesus-one "bite" at a time! After students finish this book they will own the gospel of John and be owned by Jesus."
Duffy Robbins
author, speaker, Eastern University

[get resource]

[read more/get samples]

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