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Jen Bradbury
Mar 03 · 5 min read

A Fierce Love

I'm thrilled to be guest posting at Adela Just's blog today in response to her prompt, "What is the most important thing you want your kids to know about the love of God?”

Recently, a student told me this story:

A Sunday School teacher shows her...

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#scripture #love #Jesus

Jen Bradbury
Feb 25 · 5 min read

Five Minute Friday: Small

5minutefridayToday, I'm linking up with Lisa-Jo Baker‘s Five Minute Friday. The rules: Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.

This week's prompt: Small.

Jesus didn't seem to mind small.

He invested far more time in his...

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#Five Minute Friday #The Youth Cartel #Jesus #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
Dec 17 · 5 min read

Stuff You Can Use: Jesus' Love Prayer Station

I am a big believer in the power of experiential learning. To this end, instead of giving a talk about prayer, I'd much rather create a series of prayer stations designed to give students the opportunity to pray in a variety of ways. 

Over...

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#Stuff You Can Use #Prayer #Jesus

Jen Bradbury
Nov 27 · 5 min read

Reflections on the Wonderstruck by Scripture Challenge

After a tumultuous first half of the year, at the end of the summer, I found myself craving Scripture like I hadn't in a long time. So I strong-armed my husband into joining me in participating in Margaret Feinberg's Wonderstruck by Scripture...

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#ecumenical #Community #scripture #Jesus

Jen Bradbury
Nov 12 · 5 min read

Follow footsteps, not doctrine

There's a story in the Gospel of Matthew about a woman who hemorrhaged for twelve years.

It's not typically one we pay much attention to.

Why would we? In it's entirety, this woman's story comprises three verses. As with so many of her female...

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#scripture #miscarriage #grief #Jesus

Jen Bradbury
Nov 01 · 5 min read

Review: Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey

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Like many of her fans, I fell in love with Sarah Bessey via her blog. Her writing is stunning; Her posts simultaneously heartfelt and provocative, oftentimes leaving me in both tears and deep thought.

Since I love her writing, I was thrilled to...

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#ecumenical #justice #Jesus

Jen Bradbury
Oct 24 · 5 min read

Bye Bye Church

On a Sunday morning not all that long ago, I stood behind a young mom and her toddler-aged daughter as they exited church. When they reached the doors in the back of our church, the mom said to her daughter, “Say good-bye to the church.”

The...

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#confirmation #research #Sticky faith #church #Community #Jesus #Teaching #doubt #youth ministry

Jen Bradbury
Oct 21 · 5 min read

Faith Vs. Science

According to David Kinnaman in You Lost Me , 52 percent of youth group teens aspire to science-related careers but only one percent of youth workers have addressed issues of science in the past year.

Knowing this, I was excited when my student...

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#Intergenerational #story #research #student leadership #Jesus

Jen Bradbury
Oct 17 · 5 min read

Jesus > Holy Spirit

Recently, one of my new adult leaders asked me, “Why don’t we talk about the Holy Spirit more with our high school students? It seems like we’re very focused on Jesus.”

Truthfully, this is a pretty fair assessment of my high school ministry: It ...

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#ELCA #NSYR #Jesus gap #research #Jesus #books

Jen Bradbury
Oct 08 · 5 min read

God-sized stories

This year, I'm challenging my student leaders to dream big, God-sized dreams for our ministry; Dreams that are, without God, impossible to achieve.

Over the summer, I asked my student leaders to write their God-sized dreams down, share them with...

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#Community #doubt #church #student leadership #evangelism #Jesus

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Latest Posts

  • A Fierce Love
  • Five Minute Friday: Small
  • Stuff You Can Use: Jesus' Love Prayer Station
  • Reflections on the Wonderstruck by Scripture Challenge
  • Follow footsteps, not doctrine
  • Review: Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey
  • Bye Bye Church
  • Faith Vs. Science
  • Jesus > Holy Spirit
  • God-sized stories

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