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Speeding Through Life

June 18, 2013 Discover

Last month, the American Psychiatric Association released the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-V. In it, they changed the diagnosis criteria for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) which actually made it slightly easier for physicians to make a diagnosis. Previously, if the symptoms were observed before the age of 7, [...]

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How are you equipping parents to minister to their teenagers?

June 17, 2013 Resources

Last summer, I helped Jeremy Lee build a new resource called Parentministry.net. It wasn’t my idea. It wasn’t my content. I just helped him build the first version of the website and help him get it off the ground. (I start things, it’s my favorite.) What is it? Simply put… PM.net provides you with baseline [...]

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Best Practices in Activating Young People Around Causes They Care About

June 13, 2013 Explore

Marah’s talk at The Summit was one which caused a lot of people to take notice. Dosomething.org is a relatively new, relatively small organization which directly engages and activates more than a million teenagers. (With a goal of 10,000,000) They do that mostly through social networking and text messaging and mostly without adult involvement. A [...]

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Duck Dynasty & The Youth Cartel

June 11, 2013 The Cartel Life

Adam and Marko’s beard are both fans of the A&E show, Duck Dynasty. So when Eric Gillis, the executive director at Rome YFC offered us the chance to receive some love at an event celebrating the chapters 40 year anniversary and featuring Jase Robertson we were stoked! We’d like to think Jase is living the [...]

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POLL: Are statutory rape laws fair to teenagers in consensual relationships?

June 7, 2013 Discuss

Chances are good that as a youth worker you’ve had conversations with students and parents about statutory rape laws, the age of consent to a sexual relationship, and what to do about it. When I talk to youth workers, most agree, this is a grey area we don’t feel comfortable having a blanket rule for. [...]

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Smoking Alcohol?

June 6, 2013 Explore

An individual can pour alcohol over dry ice and inhale it directly or with a straw, or make a DIY vaporizing kit using bike pumps. The alcohol of choice is poured into a bottle, the bottle is corked, and the bicycle pump needle is poked through the top of the cork. Air is pumped into [...]

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Leading Up for Kindle just $1.99

June 4, 2013 Resources

This morning we saw that Amazon changed the price of Joel Mayward’s book, Leading Up, to $1.99. It’s a limited time thing so if you’ve wanted to check out the book, now is your chance to do it for less than the price of a cup of coffee.

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Learning to Notice Marginalized Teenagers

May 24, 2013 Ignite

Collectively, this talk took our breathe away. Marko and I didn’t know this was coming. But Gregory had all of our attention from the moment he took the stage. More importantly than his presentation style, his talk left us with serious questions to ponder. Do we have the eyes to see teenagers on the edge? [...]

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Resonating with Leading Up: The importance of Identity

May 9, 2013 Leadership

I recently read Joel Mayward’s book Leading Up, an excellent book for Christian leaders on leadership and influencing people around you. The book really resonated with me and by sharing some of my thoughts and own experiences, I’d like to show you why. Who are you? “Before leading up you have to know who you [...]

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Closure and Bows

April 4, 2013 Do

Discipleship is a great catalyst for growth. It’s a process that meets someone and makes a change. One of the biggest balances to strike is the end game of discipleship. Christmas is over, but I still remember all the presents under the tree. I could easily tell which I had wrapped from those my wife [...]

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