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"Are we, in our efforts to avoid serving up boredom, inadvertently training kids to be passive consumers of well-marketed religious experiences rather than active pursuers of the untamed God of the universe? ...Maybe the healthiest thing we can do to equip young people with durable faith is to create more boring ministries. --Mark DeVries, Group, July/August 2012
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How Much Can You Disagree Theologically With Your Church and Still Work There?
"Unfortunately, the topic usually comes up only after a youth pastor is already at a job at a church, either because the leadership of the church changes or because the youth pastor fails to ask some important questions regarding the views of the church he's about to serve at. In addition, I don't think it's all that uncommon for a young youth pastor to take a position at a church and only later discover that he holds some theological views that differ from the leadership of the church."
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"Thriving kids have a look--a demeanor--like when flowers stretch out to touch the sun." --Peter Benson, the late president of Search Institute 
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Put apathetic students in an environment of wonder.
"Wonder produces in the soul a sense of awe and adoration. Students should not be FORCED to worship God, but should DESIRE to obey God. What blows our kids away? When the Holy Spirit is ignited and sparked inside our student's hearts, souls and minds. That is when wonder paves the way for for PASSION!!"
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“What if everyone is given a task we’re to work on and if possible complete while we’re living on this earth? What if before we are born and assigned bodies, all our souls stand up in a line in heaven, and as we get ready to come down, an angel gives us a little slip of paper that says what we have to do? Only the message is written in a language that we forget how to speak as soon as we get down here. But the message on that little piece of paper is still deep inside us, and our job is to remember, to recollect it, and then go about doing what it says.” –D.Q. in The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
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Trends: Mono-Tasking and Hyper-Filtering
"YMs are consciously taking time to self-soothe (a classic coping mechanism from hyper-stimulation) disconnect, de-stress, de-stimulate and control inputs. They 'mono-task' and focus on immersive hands-on activities like baking, sewing or crafting."
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Wild Frontier is a mindset. It is a mindset that there is something more out there than what is normal or what is within human limitations. Only the brave dare to have this mindset. The brave dare to be vulnerable. The brave learn to recognize and expose numbing behaviors so that bravery can now be what defines our lives. And vulnerability is the beginning of hope.
Who is Brenda?
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