The truth about Porn
Check out the post I got this from HERE
In Tim Chester’s forthcoming book, Captured By a Better Vision: Living Pom-Free, he describes the spread of pornography as an epidemic. Here are some statistics that back up his claim …
Every second, 28,258 Internet users are viewing pomography and $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography
The pornography industry is larger [...]
Repost: How to protect your kids in a digital world
Great post from a great parent:
Here’s the main bullet points:
Internet filtering
Computer game time
Cell Phone privileges
Cell Phone Limits
iPod Touch restrictions
Email monitoring
Facebook monitoring
TV time
Check it out here
My Dream Vacation
Thinking about some down time I have coming up in a couple of weeks for Spring Break and I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to use that time to recharge. I’m pretty easy to please when it comes to vacation.
My idea of a dream vacation:
Brooke, Jada, and Gino
Quiet lake house
Boat for fishing
a frig and [...]
Jason Mraz blessed me today
Thinking back on the weekend retreat I just spoke at over in Ohio at Kalahari Resort I kept thinking about this song. There’s a line in the song that asks a good question that challenges me every time I hear it. The line is…
So what do you do when God moves through you…?
Confession to old school Christians
Since today is DC Talk Day on my blog (not intentional but it’s turning into that) I figured I’d confess something.
Confession #1: Before coming on staff at Granger in 2006 I didn’t know Toby Mac was in DC Talk
There is a FUNNY story about how I found out not only was he IN DC Talk [...]
Seth and I totally missed it
Just saw this video and realized Seth and I should have watched this to get some “moves” before we shot our video…wow, 1994 feels like 16 years ago…o wait. This made me laugh, check out the outfits and HAIR!
I don’t want your sex video
Here’s a goofy little video we made for GSM High School instead of doing song special for it. We didn’t change any of the lyrics so it’s not a true parody…but it totally is a parody by definition, but not. We played this right before the message.
This is “I don’t want it” by DC Talk [...]
10 reasons our Dating/Sex series worked
Just finished our dating/sex series at GSM High School last night and here’s a few tips that helped make the series a huge success for us.
Do the series. Don’t dodge the topic. Simple.
Do the series for the right reasons. Do the series because you love students enough to want them to know the [...]
How to engage this 2010 version of teenagers
Sitting in my hotel room at Kalahari Resort (I’m speaking at a retreat this weekend) and found this in one of my Evernote folders from last September and thought it was worth posting. Have no idea where I clipped it from off the internet but I think this is good stuff to know, especially considering [...]
It’s Official Wk 3 Video Message
We don’t post a lot of our messages for GSM but I was out of town at Simply Youth Ministry Conference this past week so I figured I’d post the message clips from this past week’s services.
We’re in a Relationships series titled “It’s Official”.
Week 1: Who are you yoked with
Week 2: Slow Fade
Week 3: Restoration
Week [...]











