Game: Chocolate-Coated Challenge
Type/Purpose: Community Builder, Food/Messy
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Month: January 2011
Questions for God: Is it okay that I feel awkward when I talk about God?
Jesus liked to talk in parables…many times he talked to farmers and so he used examples from agriculture. He spoke in a way in which they understood. I’ve paraphrased his parable of The Sower from Matthew 13:3-8, with a young adult audience in mind. And he told them many things in parables, saying, “A young adult went to log on to Facebook. And as he was Facebook stalking all his friends, he decided to go nuts and poke everybody on his friend list. As he was doing this, some pokes fell among his friends who didn’t really understand Facebook…these...
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On Campus: I Love College
On a Secular Campus Even if we did get a little bit too drunk Time isn’t wasted when you’re getting wasted These are some lyrics from the song, “I Love College”, a somewhat popular song by Asher Roth. A friend of mine was playing the song the other day, and while I generally don’t pay much attention to the songs he chooses to listen to, these words stuck out to me for some reason. It depresses me that a good number of people actually believe these words to be true. The other evening I was in my dorm room...
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Book Review: Emerging Adulthood
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties by Jeffrey Jensen Young people are different today that young people in other generations. Young people today are similar to young people in other generations. I think that most of us can get behind one of these two premises. Arnett’s research into young adults premises the first, but often supports the second. This is a readable and informative presentation of Arnett’s research into young adults and his advocacy of the term emerging adult as a replacement to the typical moniker of young adult. He examines emerging adults...
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Stress and Sports
Athletes have some unique pressures and stressors that have parallel issues in Christianity.
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