Something that sticks.
Posted by Nick the Geek in All, Husband, Youth Pastor on 05. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Youth this week was very full. I don’t mean student-wise. I totally didn’t count the students. I’m really bad about that. The subject was really deep and we covered a lot. I saw some comments on MySpace that make me feel like I should share about a specific part of the service. I’ve started showing [...]
Boys have peanuts and girls have versace
Posted by Nick the Geek in All, Youth Pastor on 25. Feb, 2010 | 16 Comments
I think that’s how it goes? Tonight we talked about the differences between guys and gals. Then we did a big dance number. Wait, no, that was the weird dream I had. We did talk about the differences though. I showed a great clip from the Skit Guys that illustrated that God made us and wants to remake us into what He intended. Then I talked a bit about how we were all created in His image.
Talking bout S.E.X.
Posted by Nick the Geek in All, Youth Pastor on 18. Feb, 2010 | 10 Comments
Well we finally got to start the series on Sex. We were supposed to start 2 weeks ago but weather issues made me delay. I’ve talked to a lot of Youth Pastors about this and we are pretty much all on the same page. Someone needs to bring this up with students. Most of them aren’t getting this information from their parents or other trusted and safe adult. They are getting all kinds of information about sex from each other and the media. This results in a very distorted view on sex and sexuality. Most of the YPs I talk to plan some kind of sex talk every 2-4 years. I have a major series planned once a year and a single night topic about 6 months out from that. I feel bad that I don’t spend more time dealing with this subject but there are also a lot of other subjects I need to talk about plus presenting a solid Biblical overview on the Gospel. I could talk with my students every single day for hours and not cover everything I really want to.
Buying Sex
Posted by Nick the Geek in All, Jesus Freak, Youth Pastor on 08. Feb, 2010 | 3 Comments
They say “sex sells” and it seems that was the theme of the Super Bowl ads last night. There were two different Go Daddy commercials where women were showing off their bodies to sell web services. There was a cell phone commercial featuring Megan Fox taking a bath. There were several other commercials involving people in various stages of undress.
Love v Lust Remix
Posted by Nick the Geek in All, Blog Carnival, Husband, Writer on 29. Dec, 2009 | 20 Comments
This is why so many relationships fail, love gets confused with lust. When those feelings of joy and giddiness fade the energy of lust is spent while love is just getting started. Love must be given time to grow in the absence of lust or it will never reach its maturity. This is a difficult process because lust is passionate and intense driving a couple to spend time together where love is kind and gentle liberating a couple to their own interests. In this, individuals growing in love must overcome themselves and spend time with their love so they might experience a deeper understanding of love.
Sex is amazing
Posted by Nick the Geek in All, Blog Carnival, Jesus Freak, Youth Pastor on 15. Dec, 2009 | 48 Comments
So I was going to write about this shirt that I love for the blog carnival on “Church” today but I was making a comment at Stuff Christians Like and I realized something about Sex and the Church.
We tend to think that inviting people to church is the solution, and what’s worse we end up spending most of our time inviting people from other churches to our church so our church will grow. Think about it. It is much easier to invite a Christian to your church than a non-Christian. It is also easier to invite a non-Christian than to lead them to Christ yourself. This is the way the church acts as if it is growing when it is really full of cancer and is wasting away … at least in America.
Now what does this have to do with sex? (Click through to find out)
Hey look another red warning post
Posted by Nick the Geek in All, Youth Pastor on 10. Jun, 2009 | 0 Comments
Years from now many of the people we dated in high school will be strangers to us. Think about that for a minute. What are you willing to let a stranger do to you? I don’t know most of the girls I dated in high school to be honest. I think that is something worth considering when we ask ourselves just what we should do with a person.
Speaking of sex …
Posted by Nick the Geek in All, Youth Pastor on 24. Feb, 2009 | 0 Comments
I wrapped up a discussion on sex with my youth last week and I hope it went well. I think this is something that we tend to avoid because it makes us uncomfortable. I believe we have done a disservice to entire generations based on the way we have approached sex. In the past sex [...]
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