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Shocked with the Truth

Dec 5, 2008 11:13 am by Paul Jenkins in Culture, Resources, Stanly County Youth, That Youth Thing


This past week I got to be a part of an incredible “Dream Team” of pastors, educators and health care professionals that presented a 4 night workshop to local teens and parents on the dangers they face in areas such as peer pressure, sexually transmitted diseases, relationships and other “hotspots” in youth culture.  The workshop is called “Shocked with the Truth: a journey toward healthy choices” and is full of stats, video clips and stories about good and bad choices (the artwork is above).

We had great response each night and great feedback from those who attended.  I’m looking forward to many more of these in the days ahead.


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DeMotivators

Aug 19, 2008 11:00 pm by Paul Jenkins in Culture, Funny videos, Messages, Resources

I’ve been using these for years in quite a few of the messages I give, and today the guys were talking about them at coffee and it made me want to find some on YouTube. Yippee for you. These are called DeMotivators and they come from a company called Despair, Inc.


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Push up chart from Google Docs

Aug 2, 2008 10:46 am by Paul Jenkins in 100 Pushups, 704, Resources

Google Docs is a phenomenal tool. We use it quite a bit over at 704 to keep up with presentations and stuff. I decided to try it out for logging my push up totals. Here’s the chart that I came up with.


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Why it’s good to be debt free

Jun 14, 2008 11:58 am by Paul Jenkins in Audio, Finances, Resources

A lot of people think it’s normal to have a couple of car payments, a mortgage payment and credit card payments. They just assume that’s part of the price for the “American Dream.” When you start talking to those people about the possibility of life without debt – even house debt – they’ll often look at you like you’ve got 3 heads or something.

But this clip from the Dave Ramsey show underscores why it is so important to not be a slave to the lenders. You never know what might happen in your life that could make things difficult, and being debt free when that happens is quite a blessing. Listen and learn from this caller in Dallas, Texas.

Debt free family can handle medical bills [ 3:30 ] Play Now
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More proof for abstinence

Jun 13, 2008 6:36 pm by Paul Jenkins in Culture, Go figure, Resources

Branding ironHey, youth pastors! The next time you’re preparing a message for your youth groups on the need to stay pure, here’s another illustration for you. Ideally, we’d like all students to practice abstinence until they marry just because they’re so passionate about being pure for Christ, but there are some who won’t do it for that reason. Maybe this story will help convince them.

Apparantly, a college student was upset that a guy slept with her and never called back. Trying to think of a way to get back at him, she concocted the great plan to lure him to a hotel and then have a couple of guys brand his stomach with a wire frame shaped as the letter “R.” Not sure what it stood for. Revenge? Remember? Rigatoni? I’m going with retarded, as in, this girl was retarded.

Anyway, truth is, as they say, stranger than fiction. The full story is at Fox News.


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