Confront teen suicide and self-injury with the power of the Bible.
I guarantee these lessons and resources will help prevent suicide and self-injury by your students by ramping down their feelings of guilt and worthlessness as well as help them feel their worth to God and others.
Suicide:
Teenage depression, guilt, suicide and self-injury, and self esteem are topics to which you can apply the power of the Bible. Don’t miss your opportunity to do some real good in teenagers lives with these youth Bible study lessons. Encourage positive teen self-esteem as your teens discover their value to God.
Can a Person Who Commits Suicide Go to Heaven?
The goal of this youth Bible study lesson is to assure the kids of their salvation by grace, create a point of contact with kids
considering suicide, and give the kids who have friends that may be considering this some tools and direction for handling it.
This is a two-page lesson with leaders guide. There should be considerable preparation with your volunteers, parents, and concerned church members as outlined.
In addition, visit this website for additional tools for handling and preventing suicide. Helpguide.org Suicide Prevention . Teen suicide is a major issue with hurting kids. You, as a trusted youth leader, are in a good position to prevent tragedy. This lesson will help you open the door on a sometimes taboo subject.
Additional website resources: National Suicide Prevention Hotline ; The Hope Line .
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Suicide Prevention covers the steps to identifying and preventing suicide using a Christian approach.
Compelling profiles reveal why teens kill themselves—the signs missed, the despair overlooked. The book not only issues a warning but alerts concerned adults to signs of suicidal depression in adolescents.Teen suicide is at epidemic proportions. Suicide is among the leading causes of death among adolescents in the United States and worldwide.
Youth Pastors are perfectly positioned to prevent teen suicide and self-injury
Teen suicide is at epidemic proportions. Suicide is among the leading causes of death among adolescents in the United States and worldwide.
You, as a Christian youth leader, are in a natural position of trust with kids to foster prevention methods within the
“body of Christ”.
Use these resources to train yourself to recognize and prevent teen suicide and self injury.
Don’t let your fears stop you from discussing this important subject. This is one can-of-worms that has to be opened.
Check out my youth Bible study lesson, I Am God’s Son. This is a real boost for a teenagers self-esteem.
Conviction or Condemnation:
Guilt: This youth Bible lesson brings the truth of scripture to bear on the teen self-esteem issue of guilt and the feeling of
worthlessness kids can get from their peers. We find out how to determine whether the feelings a person gets in their heart concerning their actions is from God, seeking correction, or from the enemy, trying to separate them from God. Satan is “the accuser of believers” while the Holy Spirit convicts a person to bring correction.
Doug Fields new book
Refuel: An Uncomplicated Guide to Connecting with God Doug Fields Author will help alleviate the guilt kids sometimes feel if they don’t have the “awesome” quiet-times some people insist that a real Christian must have.
This is a one page Bible study with leaders guide. Pepper the back of the Bible lesson with picture of the kids from previous group activities. See Christmas add-on below.
These lessons are free to use but if you would like to support our ministry you may make a donation using this button. Thank you for your support. More information about donations.
The Pressure’s Off: Breaking Free from Rules and Performance
By Larry Crabb / WaterBrook
* Everybody wants a “good life” that’s free from problems. But for some Christians, the pursuit of biblical “principles” and “blessings” can actually become a form of idolatry. Dr. Crabb shows you how to escape the bondage of trying to “fix” the universe, so that you can experience true freedom and connectedness with God. Includes workbook. 368 pages, softcover from Waterbrook.
This is a awesome book for you as a leader to read. There are many lessons to be taught from it. Your kids will be grateful for the knowledge. It will last them a lifetime.
Dropping the Baggage, or Clearing the Air
The goal of this youth Bible study lesson is to help the kids uncover hidden sins in their heart and get them out in the open 
between them and God. Hopefully the end result will be a feeling of great relief for them and a renewed sense of fellowship with God. Guilt is the leading cause of teenage depression.
This is a two page lesson with leaders guide and a fun pre-lesson activity that has great analogies reinforcing the message. It can be taught as a one or two week lesson as the kids progress.
Page two: The goal of page two is to make clear what it means to repent but also to stand against the guilt that comes from the enemy over continued sin, especially sins of addiction. The lines of fellowship between God and man must remain open even when addictive behavior has yet to be conquered.
These lessons are free to use but if you would like to support our ministry you may make a donation using this button. Thank you for your support. More information about donations.
Kids just need to be loved
These YouTube® messages by Louie Giglio are raw, honest, biblically grounded teaching that connect kids to a Jesus that can be trusted in the midst of even the most tragic circumstances.
Just relax and let the kids be uplifted by these awesome talks.
