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		<title>&#8220;The Light&#8221; Scripture Mash-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Confirmation Sunday at Jesse Lee was March 21. Our theme was &#8220;the light overcomes the darkness&#8221;&#8230;a very special pick by the confirmands who became church members on the first full day of spring, when the days become longer than the nights.
We used this mash-up of scripture, read as a script by 5 different voices:
Genesis: 	In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theyouthguy.com/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Playing with a Loaded Gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face facts, your parents had it easier. Back then, good parenting advice just needed to include &#8220;always wear clean underwear&#8221; and &#8220;never talk to strangers.&#8221; Wouldn&#8217;t they be astonished to be thrust into child rearing in 2010? You probably don&#8217;t get too much of an argument about clean underwear, but talking to strangers has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theyouthguy.com/?p=93</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Scoop?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just held a pretty big end-of-summer event, and we weren&#8217;t sure how much ice cream to order. We kept it simple with just chocolate and vanilla, although we had all kinds of toppings. We found that we could serve about six high schoolers per half-gallon of ice cream. We went through about 3 vanillas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theyouthguy.com/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Face(book) it: You Need Better Communications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hereby declare the end of poor communications within your youth ministry. I’m here to confirm what you already suspect: kids don’t check their Email. To them, Email is old technology, only good for formal communications with teachers, bosses, and other adults.
For high schoolers, it’s all about texting and Facebook. Generally, kids prefer a text [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theyouthguy.com/?p=79</link>
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		<title>100% Cotton Coupons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may be one of the crazier ideas I&#8217;ve come up with, but I&#8217;m excited to see how it works out.
I have just sealed a deal with our local pizza shop to allow us to print a coupon on the back of our youth group T-shirts. Anytime one of our members shows up wearing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theyouthguy.com/?p=72</link>
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		<title>On 15-Passenger Vans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Inbox&#8230;
Where/How does your group go about transporting kids to off site youth events?   According to my research, many churches are stepping away from using 15  passenger church vans citing safety concerns, in favor of smaller vehicles or  buses.  Oh wouldn&#8217;t a million dollar budget be a wonderful thing  

You&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theyouthguy.com/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Anger Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday, I had the honor of delivering the sermon at Jesse Lee. The title was Anger Management, and the main thrust was that, while we spend time and energy being angry over various and sundry circumstances, there are some things that are really worth being angry about.
I used this story as part of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theyouthguy.com/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Timelessness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The truth is that we worship a timeless God. That statement conveys both the utmost expression of hope and the greatest mystery of the human existence. Everything that we experience has a start and a finish. We wake up and we go to sleep. Class begins and class ends. We’re born and we die. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theyouthguy.com/?p=51</link>
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