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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 r...
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We’re All Born This Way

In case you can’t tell since my return I have been struggling with the issue of how the church handles homosexuality, and how our attitudes and actions do more to drive people away from the church than to help people find...
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Why are we…

Why are we vocally anti-gay, but only anti-pride in theory? Why are we OK with gossiping about someone else’s sin? Why are we so defensive about God, the Bible and the church? Do we think God can’t handle himself? W...
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Social Media Study

This week I had a parent come in and ask me to help her set up Twitter. She wanted to know what was going on with her daughter, not in a helicopter parent sort of way, just in a curiosity sort of way. Anyway, that got me thinki...
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Youth Pastoring
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We are ministers not messiahs

—Attributed to Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador (1917-1980), possibly original to Bishop Ken Untener see the full poem text here: http://www.intervarsity.org/slj/article/1354
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