num_pages: 80
description: Highway Video is Youth Specialties' exciting new series of videos. Each package is a video magazine of five to six segments on vital themes to youth -- their lives, their challenges, their joys, their insecurities, their questions, and their Savior. Every installment of Highway Video will be themed. A subtle thread will tie the segments together, treating important themes like self-esteem, grace, discouragement, encouragement, grief, guilt, and forgiveness. Taken together, the segments will present thoughtful, as well as thought-provoking video statements from many sides in many modes. Segments are of varying lengths, dictated by the content rather than artificial constraints. The total package (whether viewed at once, or through an evening, or over the course of a month) will therefore 'breathe' freely. Youth leaders, using these in groups, will have the maximum latitude to use the segments as jumping-off points for discussions, or integral think-pieces to explore themes and lead students to explore themselves. Every Highway Video installment will include a Curriculum Guide for Leaders, a booklet that will supplement the segments; provide hints and guidance for the leader in group settings; offer reproducible checklists, activities, challenges, and journal-type action-prompts based on the videos. As usual, all such pages will also be available as downloads from the YS website for maximum flexibility. Volume 3- Gimme The Journey of Your Growing Desire contains five segments. For the first time, the segments within a Highway Visual Curriculum volume are linear, not they can be watched, and taught from individually, but they are also connected and build in intensity. They carry students from contemplating a lukewarm response to God's call on their lives, to a passionate commitment. 1. Putting God on 'Hold.' Examining the 'God-shaped hole' that we hear about. This is not the 'calling' the church always tells us we are supposed to have, but the one we know we have, inside... when God calls and we know he's at the other end. 2. You Can Have All...of My Half, God! God asks us to follow him, sometimes when we don't know what or why, and our relationship with Him is doomed to be 'half-hearted' if we have our fingers crossed behind our backs, going through the motions instead of truly submitting to Him. 3. Going Boldly... Almost When following God is in the desire of our nature, there is nothing to be afraid of; we don't really have to give up anything we truly, deeply want because God promises to always satisfy our souls. 4. Dueling Agendas This segment addresses the confusion of desires, our shopping lists vs. God's. We tend to appear like we have desire for God in order to receive acceptance from parents, friends, pastors, and so on. So our response to God can have a dual agenda when not founded on what God really promises us. We may try to 'use' God to get things we think we want, instead of realizing that God can be the desire of our soul if we submit to him beyond our own understanding. 5. Welcoming... a Genuine Passion for God The positive angle -- that we all have a true, genuine desire to know God and that we must discover it and act upon it! God wants us to experience this life fully, to live so that we feel alive. Having a desire for God isn't just being locked up in a convent reading the Bible twelve hours a day, but the desire that we have inside us to discover who we are and who we can be in Him.
language: English
title: Gimme God Leader's Guide: The Journey of Your Unfolding Faith
titlecomplete: Gimme God Leader's Guide: The Journey of Your Unfolding Faith (Highway Visual Curriculum)
publisher: Zondervan/Youth Specialties