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Life Coach: Running Into A Wall
Coaching: When You've Run Into A Wall I remember one day at Youth Group I was explaining how sometimes in our faith we get stuck. Sometimes we get into ruts and we don’t know how to get out. I didn’t get the feeling that a good number of the students were paying...
An Open Letter To High School Grads
Congratulations! You did it! Whether you are going to a college or have decided that going into debt just isn’t for you, you have done an amazing thing: you have graduated from High School and you deserve to celebrate! Over these next few months things are going to...
Everything Is Possible For You, But…
Friday night as we sat around the table, coming to the close of the Seder, I was given instructions to read a few lines from the Haggadah and, in this particular Haggadah, I read Mark 14:36, which reads: “Abba, Father,” Jesus said, “everything is possible for you....
Youth Ministry – A Year Later: Thoughts & Reflections
As I gazed out into the crowd on March 30, 2014, I gave a speech of gratitude, sorrow, but ultimately of optimism (You can read the transcript of that speech here). After almost 5 years in the ministry in one way or another, I was about to leave it for a season....
Petra 2015
On Wednesday morning, as per usual Jet Lag, I woke up about an hour before my alarm went off. I was also really excited to finally travel to the south and make our way over to Petra, Jordan. After being stalled because the Israeli Budget wouldn't give Preston the...
Dear Lady from the Monster Energy Drink Video and Interrupting Muslim Prayers at the National Cathedral: A Response To Harmful American Evangelicalism
Dear Lady saying Monster Energy Drink promotes Satanism and interrupting Muslim prayers, I am astounded and appalled at your attitude, naivety, and outrageous actions. You have become famous for two things recently: A video saying that Monster Energy Drink is Satanist...
Is Modest Hottest?
"Jordan Harrington is a 24 year old graduate of Liberty University with a dual major in Elementary and Special Education. She is married to Matthew Morran and is currently a Special Education Teacher for children with Autism" Before I introduce Jordan’s post, I want...
Should Christians Celebrate Halloween? Part 1
The weather is freezing, it’s mid October, but we heard this was so worth it. Matt and Jordan are cuddling up trying to stay warm, and Bethany and I were trying to do the same. The cold weather only prepared us for the horrifying things we were about to experience. A...
Left Behind: A Rapture of Non-Biblical Proportions – Part 1
Let me get right to the point: One of the greatest lies and misconceptions of the 20th and early 21st century in Christianity is the idea of the rapture. This whole idea started one century earlier in the 19th century by a man named John Darby. Before this period of...
Folk Theology: Part 5 – Jeremiah 29:11
Folk Theology: Jeremiah 29:11 is speaking directly to me. Original Verse: Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” The Issue I know Sunday School kids...
Failing, Failures & Forgiveness
Dan Smith says, "Failing is not just for failures, failing is for everyone. Failures just have more experience." Click here to watch it. What is your biggest failure in life? What is your smallest failure in life? If you had the ability to go back and change one...
Folk Theology : Part 3 – God Gained Another Angel
Folk Theology: “God Gained Another Angel” Original Verse (usually) Referred To: Matthew 22:30, Mark 12:25, Luke 20:36 “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in Heaven.” Without going into all of the...