What Your Youth Pastor and the Verizon Guy Have in Common
The Verizon guy is my new favorite illustration of what youth leaders are called to be. Our teenagers are in "the dead zone" every day.
- 10/14/2009
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The Verizon guy is my new favorite illustration of what youth leaders are called to be. Our teenagers are in "the dead zone" every day.
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I propose we add an 11th Commandment. The Decalogue seems incomplete for a postmodern culture. "Thou shalt not judge." Okay, so I'm being sarcastic here.
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Everyone, to a greater or lesser degree, is crazy…except Jesus.
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Thank you Lord for pain. Through it you draw me closer to you. By it you drive me to my knees in prayer.
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David's passionate love for God led to the equal and opposite reaction of his passionate hatred for sin.
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