I don't mind saying it. I hope the Pacers take out the Heat. #overrated

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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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Books are dropped off

May 10, 2008 12:01 pm by Paul Jenkins in Evangelism, Evotions, Resources, That Youth Thing

I just got back from the parking lot of a vacant Piggly Wiggly in Irmo, South Carolina (which is near Columbia – home of the Fighting Gamecocks). That was the designated “drop” for a meeting that has been in the works for a couple of months now between me and the Royal Rangers of South Carolina.

Big shout out to Michael Keese, the director for the S.C. Assembly of God Royal Ranger program, for making it work to get my book, God is My Air Traffic Controller, into the hands of 250 young men at their district PowWow this year.

Michael is an air traffic controller and has been using his training and experiences to train young men about how God leads us in our faith and so he knew that my book would be a perfect companion for his teaching and their theme for this year which is, as you probably guessed, “God is my Air Traffic Controller.” How cool is that?

Thanks, also, to the Assembly of God’s Light for the Lost program which saw the potential in Michael’s idea and came through with the funding for it. If you’re the head of a district Royal Ranger program and would be interested in doing what Michael did, contact me and I’ll gladly share how you can not only get some great devotional material to your boys, but also get funding for it and potentially raise funds for your RR program. It’s your basic win-win-win situation.


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This will mess you up

Dec 3, 2007 11:10 am by Paul Jenkins in Resources

One Thing You Can't Do in HeavenUnless you are seriously considering having your heart and soul messed up, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. I just got done with it and there is so much truth, so much simplicity and so much conviction in it, that I may never recover. But, that’s a good thing.


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Now that’s ugly…

Oct 24, 2007 4:56 pm by Paul Jenkins in Go figure, Resources, That Youth Thing

Ugly PeopleIn the “Go figure” category, I can’t believe that anyone would want to purchase something as disgusting as the Ugly People PowerPoint that we’ve been using for years over at That Youth Thing when we talk about the ugliness of our sins, but sure enough, we’ve had 2 people buy downloads since yesterday. Hmmm, at that pace it would be 365 in a year, 730 in 2, factor an extra day for leap year so that after 3 years it’s…

Anyway, it’s pretty cool to see these resources spreading around and being used. Go figure.


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