Teens - Recent Blog Posts
It's a very difficult thing to always try to do right, to turn your back constantly on the things of the flesh. It's all to easy to forget why we live a Christian life. Living on the road has showed me how many evils are waiting for us out there.
I'm one of four boys, the middle child in fact, and I have lived a very sheltered life. I have...
In the music business, especially the Christian industry, I've learned many things. One thing always stands out, it's that people are always watching you. They are so quick to find just that one thing to pin on you and use against you.
When living a Christian life, there is a magnifying glass automatically put on your life. Everyone is so quick...
Thanks everyone for joining us on this site and the teens section. As you may know we get new bloggers from time to time and this is my chance to introduce you to a new member of that team. Mat Slagle is the drummer for a band called "The Letter Black" They are a band that has some very powerful songs that I fell really speak into the hearts of...
Ridiculous. I mean, seriously. A seven and a half pound burger, plus side dishes? And he just swallows it on down in less than an hour. What a beast!
I don't know how many of you watch the show "Man v. Food", but the shows host Adam is seriously a food guy. He can simply put stuff away. From monster burgers to six and a half pound milkshakes;...
My pastor has said many times that if you want to run a popular youth group you need to address two topics almost monthly: the End Times and Sex. He feels like he hears questions about sexual boundaries more than any other single topic and nearly always in the form of "How far can I go and still be 'ok'?".
This question irks me. It's no...
When we think of sex these days, our thoughts are often taken away from its original intent- a holy moment taking place between a husband and wife. Sex has been dumbed down to a thing of no consequence, mild and fleeting; casual. However, as you search scriptures, it is so much more.
Think back to Genesis (the first book of the bible). God...
As with many of you, I am a huge fan of the TV show Friends. Unlike you, I am old enough that I was in high school when they first started coming out, so it was almost as if I grew up with them. Like I got to know them personally. Sure, they were on television, but it still seemed as if every week I was right there with them. What a great...
Evey day people come on to this site and share what they are going through, been through, or have been a part of in regards to pornography. Just like this teen confession HERE:
If you are looking for a place to confess what you are going through or just would like to know that you are not alone in this please visit this section of the site by
When the Bible is called the 'living word' it usually means several things. For example that even though it was written a long time ago it is still relevant today. But what I love more is that you can read something in the Bible, something you have read many times before and then suddenly a new insight jumps out at you. You get a new look at a...
BAD ALONE TIME
Beware of bad alone time! Secrets hide in alone time. We can control our environment in alone time. We can act out sexually in alone time.
Beware of getting alone to feed the wrong things.
- Time on the Internet
- Time with pornographic mags & movies
- Isolating ourselves from other people
- Running away from our hurts and...
Throughout the past few weeks in our student ministry, we have been diving into the topics of relationships. During the spring it seems as if every ministry is going over the same thing. I mean, let's face it: SEX sells, and ministries know that too. But I wanted something different for my students. Something deeper. Something that was real....
It's 2 am. You're having a staring contest with your monitor. You have a sinking feeling you're going to be the one to blink first. You've been here before. How could God understand how I feel right now? How could anyone resist the possibilities of what is in front of me? Does anyone understand what I'm going through? Before you know it you...
I have some bad news. And some of you aren’t going to like it.
When I was told it I didn’t like it either.
But it’s true.
Are you ready? Here it is.
If you struggle with porn and you want to be free, you are going to have to tell someone.
There you have it. I told you, you wouldn’t like it.
There are just no two ways about it. You won’t...
“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." Hebrews 8:12
“As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. “ Psalm 103:12
The other day my friend was talking about the idea of God forgiving and forgetting our sins. This is something I have heard so many times yet this is...
How many of you out there are runners? Back in my day when I was your age (what seems like forever ago), I was in great shape and could run for what seems like forever. Miles on sports teams. Half marathons. Triathlons. Beast. The past seems so far away. Untouchable almost. Almost.
I still try to run. I guess it's more of a slow run, walk-like...
Life is really lived moment by moment. As I sit back and look at my children sometimes I realize that this generation has a hard time with one thing: silence. I am the same way more often than I want to admit. Just think about it: how much time do we spend on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, and the internet in general? How many times do we...
It’s 3 AM. You can’t sleep. You did it again. That thing…. That thing you swore you would never do again. You can’t believe it. You really thought you were past this. You really thought you could control yourself. You got lazy. You stopped “bouncing your eyes,” you stopped taking with your accountability partner, you stopped all the safe...
Yeah, I know - - we already know that, right? But really, how often does it pass as such? All the time I imagine, in the form of magazine, television, movie, and so much more. It's not like this is new information, but as our culture progresses, the barriers, or boundaries become blurred and the cross over not only becomes more likely, but...
Albert Einstein once said ‘Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts”.
We have heard that the “Eyes are the gateway to the soul’. I sometimes believe and marvel at how so very easily the eyes can drag us down a path, our heart and soul never truly desired to go. Now you can argue that if you actually went down that...
I have an ongoing habit every morning of the normal type- wake up, shower, business, dress, eat, teeth, drive, work... First thing I normally do when I get to work is check the top news stories of the day- you never know what has the potential to influence your workplace. Normally it's just a scan here and there on Google news and then back to...
I was recently sharing with a friend about my struggles with pornography and she asked me a pretty basic question but it rocked me. She asked, “What is the biggest lesson you have learned since starting on this healing journey?” It took me a while to really pinpoint anything I have learned because it has been so easy for me to be blinded by the...
Such a simple statement is not always such an easy answer. The fear of judgment, ridicule; even the idea of being vulnerable is sometimes downright scary. Without a doubt, all of us have been confronted with this, and at times have chosen the easy way out and to put up the fake face. Again, it's scary to be real.
As we trend across this current...
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord does not count against him"
I have not looked at pornography or masturbated since before college started. But I do not boast for this being my victory. I hope that my testimony can encourage you all, and this week I want to offer an encouragement.
I know how terrible it feels after you fail time and time...
Sin is fun; for a season. So many sins that we commit are at one point fun to us. Just like at one point pornography was fun to so many visiting this site. The only thing is that many of those same people can tell you what a nightmare this sin can be as well. Wez puts it to the point very effectively with this blog. Thank you Wez for your...
I was talking today about relationships, and more specifically boundaries within relationships. I think that without boundaries (physical, emotional, and spiritual) a relationship will likely fail, and if not, there will be regrets in that relationship. Focusing on physical boundaries, these regrets could be that you held hands before you...
In the spring, when the kings normally went out to war, David sent out Joab, his servants, and all the Israelites. They destroyed the Ammonites and attacked the city of Rabbah. But David stayed in Jerusalem.2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. While he was on the roof, he saw a woman bathing. She...
During my freshman orientation at college I had the opportunity to participate in the Dating Game. I was on one side of the stage while a partition separated me from three college coeds. I asked questions of each young lady to determine who I would select for a date. Decision time arrived and I had to choose.
As I looked out into the crowd...
Anyone else just entirely creeped out by Santa Claus? I have two kids and we take them down to the mall every year to see Santa- to sit on his lap, take a quick picture and pay an exorbitant amount for them and leave. A lot of the season oddly encompasses this Santa. But the guy really creeps me out.
I love the Beach Boys, and perhaps they...
I am so encouraged to see everyone's responses, and I hope that those who have questions would find answers here. I appreciate very much everyone who agrees with me, and just as much I appreciate anyone who, with a good heart, would try to rebuke what I say. My heart is broken by the struggle that we all share, and I hope that I can speak...
"When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each of you is tempted when you are dragged away by your own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death."
When I first read this, it...