NOISE

The Lives of our teens are filled with NOISE, just flat out loud visual, emotional, spiritual and physical noise that distracts them.    Noise that takes the form of stupid shows like Jersey Shore.  Noise that takes shape in Facebook, TV, dumb books and and waste-of-time-boyfriends.   All of this noise, which comes from our common enemy is to distract these teens from having a true, honest and meaningful relationship with their...

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The Compulsion of the Gospel

 "We are not in contact with another world. We are happily in contact with this world. But those disciples were other worldly...the Church these days does not have a sense of wonder" (Tozer, The Mystery of the Holy Spirit, pg. 56).    I've been thinking lately and asking myself why teens have been walking away from faith, trying to see a pattern with what's going on and what Youth Ministry should look like in order to lead students...

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