Salvaging Truth from Media Hype Teen pregnancy is on the rise! Wait, teen pregnancy is actually decreasing. Violent crime by teens is at epidemic levels! Sorry, it’s actually fading. These are just a couple “expert” opinions on youth culture. And don’t even get me started on supposed “rainbow parties.”…
A Christian School teacher asked her class the week before Easter if they knew what happened on Easter and why it was so important. One little girl spoke up saying: “Easter is when the whole family gets together, and you eat turkey and sing about the pilgrims and all that.”…
So I’m here in Columbus, at NYMC 2009, and I had the privilege to hang out with Braddigan last night. They’re an incredibly humble bunch of guys. Brad has gone form selling out Madison Square Garden three nights in a row, to playing at a trash dump in Guatemala.…
Teenagers today meet, interact, and converse in an ever-increasing digital manner. It seems like overnight, they’ve gone from a dial-up generation to a digital logon generation. We are living in a time when parents can no longer chaperone their teenager in every conversation with their friends, accompany them at every social event or outing, or police their daily activities.…
In honor of God, my family, and my future spouse, I commit my life to sexual purity. This involves: – Honoring God with your body– Renewing your mind for good– Turning your eyes from worthless things– Guarding your heart above all else What if a million students committed their lives to the Purity Code?…
Have you checked MythBusters out? If not, MythBusters is a show on Discovery Channel that basically tackles urban legends, internet rumors, movie scenes and the like with the scientific method to test their validity. One of my favorites was Shark Week, when they answered critical questions like: Can sharks detect a struggling fish?…
During my teenage years I thought I was a cutting-edge kind of guy. . . especially when it came to my interaction with popular music. The musical soundtrack to my middle school years played through a single earpiece connected to a nine-volt battery-powered transistor radio that picked up two competing Top 40 am radio stations.…
I believe that in order to have a pure experience with a movie, you have to go in completely unbiased. You should have absolutely no expectations whatsoever. No preconceived notions of what the movie should (or shouldn’t) be. Of course this is tough to do in today’s information saturated age, especially if you’re a fan of movies and other form of entertainment.…
“My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While, everyone else was agin’, I was gettin’ younger… all alone.” Can you even imagine? Being born as a really old dude, living life backwards, and then progressively becoming younger.…
It’s been heavy in our youth group this past month. Kurt, a 15-year old, made one last desperate call just as he was about to pop 100 Advil. Mary, 14, texted me saying, “I don’t know how to talk about how I feel so many thing all bottled up inside me and I think I am at the point of just bursting out .…
