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Saw these two videos on my boy Brad Coopers blog and HAD to repost them.   BE WARNED: Images in these videos are unedited.
I need to repent for thinking working long hours is tough. I need to repent for being flippant in my Americanized thoughts of persecution. God open my eyes!
(Posted updated 2-24-10: [...]

James 1:25 “But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.”
Want to know how to be blessed?

Look intently into the perfect law (The Word of God)
Don’t forget you see/hear/read [...]

So if you read my post on Friday you might get that I’ve been reading a little bit more than usual about hell and it’s been one of the best things for me recently.  I’m not into Fire, Hell, and Brimestone teaching or ’scare tactic’ type of teaching but I am 100% Realist!  I’ve peg [...]

Today has been a great day so far, I can’t help but wait in anticipation for what God’s going to do tonight.
Today I echo the prayer of David in Psalm 5:1-3
1 Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my sighing.
2 Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray. [...]

(Photo is random from Photo.net)
“In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself.  Unless you know God as that – and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison – you do not know God at all.  As long as you are proud you cannot know God.  A proud [...]

This summer I want every teen knows that…
4. God hears your prayers.
Sometimes when we don’t get what we pray for we think that God doesn’t hear our prayers.  That’s not the case at all.
God usually responds with one of 3 answers to our prayers.  ”yes” , “no“, or “not yet“.  This is one of the [...]

One of the things that can happen when students (and adults for that matter) don’t have access to “church” is that their growth will stall out. We can assume that because we don’t have access to “church” God’s will for our life changes and he doesn’t expect much of us…think again!
3. God’s will is discipleship.
God’s [...]

Over this past school year I’ve talked to some students struggle with understanding how God is Father, Son, & Holy Spirit so let me just put it this way:
2. Jesus is the exact representation God the Father
When you read the Gospels, understand that you are reading about the nature of God THROUGH the life of [...]

It’s summer and I’ve been thinking a lot about our students on summer break.  We take summers off from our GSM Weekend Service and move into Mission, Camp and Event Season but we never take time off from our relationship with Jesus.
So this week I’ll be writing what I hope every teen knows about God [...]

These sounds awesome for Groups or Parents who want to walk through the “Big Picture”
Here’s a blurb from the website:
Your young people need to see the Big Picture when they read the Bible—God’s story rolling our throughout history, throughout lives.
Share these 12 one-hour sessions with your teenagers and you’ll see light bulbs pop on as [...]