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Social Media Help for Parents

I am working my way through a newsletter/seminar type thing for parents about social media and their teens (or actually pre-teens too). I use Facebook and Twitter some, but I am just not a social network guy for anything that restricts my word count. But I have been trying to dig through and pick up [...]

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Squishy Circuits: An electric lesson for younger youth and children

The Idea: Use a simple circuit to light up some LEDs using “squishy circuits” to talk about sharing God’s love with others. What are “squishy circuits” you ask? Squishy circuits are two specific types of homemade dough that you can use to create simple electrical circuits. You will need to create both a conductive dough [...]

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Bombardment: A Youth Object Lesson on the Armor of God

Spiritual Idea: In Ephesians 6:10-13 Paul tells the Christians in Ephesus to put on spiritual armor because the day of evil is coming. He warns them that their struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against a spiritual foe. To this end he says to put on the full armor of God. This object [...]

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Bucket Trivia

I like using random trivia games to introduce a topic. My goal is to have questions that people who have some trivia knowledge can answer and some questions that are really just going to be guesses for most people. I typically do these type questions as screen games, but this week I tried to add [...]

Gross-Weird-True Complete Series

Youth Group Lesson Plan: Gross, Weird, True

Download Gross, Weird, True Complete (ZIP) Download Gross, Weird, True Lessons (PDF)  Gross, Weird, True is a 4-week youth group Bible study that looks at some of the strange stories and commands in the Bible. It includes instructions on how to incorporate the 60-second games from NBC’s “Minute to Win It.” Included in this download [...]


 
 

 
 

Christians on TV

You know one of my biggest concerns right now is how Christians are percieved in the world. It seems like most of the places that you look people don’t really like us. Lately as I have been watching Christians outside of ...
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I refuse to write anything else…

…until someone joins in my conversation about the new fall season of shows. This is my passion people! And you aren’t getting any more from me until you comment. This includes you "A Huge Fan" let me know ...
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9 Pounds 2 Ounces 22 inches long

                                                                 
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Youth Group Lesson Plan: Gross, Weird, True

Download Gross, Weird, True Complete (ZIP) Download Gross, Weird, True Lessons (PDF)  Gross, Weird, True is a 4-week youth group Bible study that looks at some of the strange stories and commands in the Bible. It includes inst...
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I am a Writer

I am reading a book on writing that we used in one of my college classes. I never finished it in college (I think we only talked about the first few chapters). Since then I have started it several times as I have tried to get b...
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