Archive for the 'real issues' Category

December 7, 2007

According to the 2007 online survey for Junior Achievement and Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, an accounting firm, nearly 40% of teenagers says that you have to lie and cheat to succeed.

The teens said that includes cheating on tests to get ahead, stealing if you are short on cash, and lying if it gets you out of a scrape.

Is breaking rules necessary to make it in life?

Filed under: real issues, real question, real surveys

December 6, 2007

(picture from USA Today)

 

Joyless World

by Lydia Rule, RTF Teen Staff Writer

In a mall located in Omaha, Nebraska, a shooter killed eight people and then took his own life as well.

As I read this news article, I couldn’t help but wonder WHY? Isn’t this the time of the year when people are supposed to be joyful? When little children sit and stare at their presents and wish that Christmas would arrive soon? Isn’t this supposed to be the time where people sing “Joy to the World” and think of others above themselves? (more…)

Filed under: lydia rule, real issues, real poem

December 2, 2007

I used to have a strong faith in God, but junior year has messed me up, I don’t feel close to him anymore, my grades have been falling. I have suffered from depression and Ii always feel doubtful. I don’t know what to do about falling into the wrong relationships with guys who don’t have the same religious faith as me, but I really need some advice from someone who has more faith than I do… Emi

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Filed under: faith, real advice, real issues, real word

November 27, 2007

Rough youth was a path to teen ministry

Greg Stier’s Dare 2 Share

By Electa Draper
The Denver Post - 11/24/2007

Excerpt: One of Greg Stier’s earliest and most vivid memories is of his mother taking a baseball bat to smash a car and then bloody the man inside it, one of a string of husbands. Stier, founder of the Arvada-based international youth ministry Dare 2 Share, later converted his own fierce mother to Christianity.

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Filed under: real articles, real issues, real links, real quote, real story, youth worker resources

October 29, 2007

Campus Life, September/October 2007
I Hated Everyone
How God’s love changed Flyleaf’s Lacey Mosely.
By Todd Hertz

I had nothing:

Flyleaf lead singer Lacey Mosely started doing drugs at 13. It was her escape from life. “Home was a war zone and I dealt a lot with low self-esteem and depression,” Lacey says. “All that carried over into my relationships. I hated everyone.”

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Filed under: music, real articles, real issues, suicide

October 3, 2007

Real Quote: Chances are good a Christian teen will walk away from his or her faith within the college freshman year. A recent LifeWay Research survey indicates 70 percent of church-attending Christian teens fit the bill; that’s about 1.2 million a year. Most are in their latter teens, ages 17, 18 and 19.

Article: Are College Freshman Losing Their Religion?

What do you think?

Filed under: faith, real articles, real issues

August 31, 2007

Go Deep: 6 Spiritual Things You Need to Learn in College
TrueU
by Jason Boyette

Dating? Nope. Drinking? Nah. I’m thinking about another of the big Ds on campus: Devotion. According to a much ballyhooed Barna study, more than three-fourths of your college friends maintain at least an outward commitment to Christianity.

But when it comes to young adults who were active churchgoers as teenagers, three out of five of them are currently spiritually disengaged. They don’t attend church. They don’t read the Bible. They don’t pray very often.

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Filed under: real articles, real issues

August 14, 2007

 

Head-On

by Lydia Rule, RTF Staff Writer

Here is the understatement of the century: people do not get along. In fact, confrontations between people can get downright nasty. (more…)

Filed under: family, friendship, lydia rule, real advice, real devos, real issues