I’ll never forget the day that, as a 27-year-old youth pastor, I got a phone call from another pastor in a frantic frenzy asking me, “Ryan, have you heard what happened to Robert*?” I quickly responded, “No, I haven’t, but it sounds serious!” After finding out the facts, it was. Robert had been dabbling with [...]
Pastors are often thought to be “men of the cloth” who basically sit around drink coffee, read books and pray all day. While this caricature isn’t exactly false, it certainly doesn’t capture the heroic work of our founder and leader, Jesus Christ, who beat up demons, challenged religious systems and offered healing and grace to [...]
I remember reading the testimony of Barnabas Piper a few years ago and audibly agreeing as I read the story of a troubled young man turned Jesus follower all in the amount of time that it took him to drink a six pack. Barnabas describes his conversion this way: “I went to the store bought [...]
Odds are some you of stumbled on to this blog by accident. Perhaps the Google search went haywire, and in your haste for more porn, you accidentally (and perhaps providentially) ended up here. Odds are, some of you are coming to this article after coming off a porn search or binging on porn, and you [...]
We have a problem. Two years ago several hundred youth pastors met together in Orlando, FL for a weekend of teaching, worship, workshops and…….PORN. Yes, you read that correctly. No, it wasn’t part of the conference programming (the porn, that is) but nonetheless the stats were in and the website analysis was in….we have a [...]
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