I’ve gone to summer camp almost every year since 1994. I missed one year in 2002 but, for many of those years, I doubled up on both high school and junior high camp. And now, 18 years after that first camp experience, I’m back at it again. This week our church’s high school group isRead more
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Alycia is humoring me by watching Star Trek: The Next Generation with me. TNG is my favorite television show ever and I’m happy that she is watching it with me. I do feel a little bad for her, though, because the first season of TNG isn’t that great. It takes a while for TNG toRead more
This week I’m again in Hollywood on a service trip with high school students from our church. A number of our students have given up time over their spring break to come and serve a church in inner city Hollywood. That number of students, though, is slightly smaller than the number we normally bring. AndRead more
As I mentioned yesterday, this past weekend our church’s high school and junior high groups joined the groups from four other churches for winter camp. It was a great weekend to get away and spend some time in the snowless mountains. Throughout the weekend students were challenged to accept that they have been chosen byRead more
We continued our sex series last night at our youth group. This week I had a friend come and share his testimony. He made some choices and decisions that fell outside of God’s intentions and boundaries for sex. It was extremely encouraging to hear his story and how God’s grace and redemption shone through evenRead more
A month ago I posted about the upcoming sex series for our youth group. For years February, with its amorous nature and association with Valentine’s Day, has been ground zero for youth group sex talks. While we’ve done it at different times in the past, this year our group is tackling the topic of sexRead more