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We're coming to the close of another year of high school youth group. It's been a small year, as far as attendance is concerned, but we've hit some heavy topics, so perhaps that's for the best. I've noticed the more teens in the room, the more tangents we take...


A few topics covered recently: abortion, civil disobedience, capital punishment, cloning and lying. Some of the discussion was interesting and some of them were inconclusive (e.g. I don't know what I think of capital punishment), but it all was couched in terms of what God's character is like so we had a baseline. These are things that don't always come up in conversation and you can't find a straight-up answer about some of them in the Bible, so it was good to take some time to figure out the why and what of some of these controversial issues.


To round out the year, though, we're going to tackle Francis Chan's book Crazy Love. Each chapter has a video introduction and questions to go along. It should be good: he's a good pastor, definitely inspired by God.