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Junior High Sunday School Fight (w/pics)

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Brett.

So I was visiting this church in Atlanta a while back when I stumbled across something truly special. And by special, I mean amazing. And by amazing, I mean ridiculous. And by ridiculous, I mean hilarious. Like the Mona Lisa collecting dust in a basement, this treasure could have gone undiscovered. But God clearly has a sense of humor and wouldn’t let that happen.

I found these two pieces of paper hanging on a wall in an empty junior high Sunday school classroom. The topic for the last class apparently was relationships. The girls’ thoughts on boys:

Notice the nice neat columns, the pretty handwriting.

Now, here are the boys’ thoughts on the female gender:

Of course…God is a guy! Great evidence that boys are better than girls…haha.

Say a prayer for your youth pastor today. :)

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Posted on 22. Aug, 2009 by Brett.

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My 100 Twitter Dads

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by Brett.

I fight the battle at least twice a week now–someone telling me Twitter is stupid, and a waste of time, and blah blah blah. But every day, I think Twitter is better than the day before. Tons of reasons it rocks, but my latest revelation is Twitter as a Mentoring Machine. I lost my dad when I was 19. Thankfully, I’m surrounded by Christian men who push, pull, and punch me every day to make me a better man.

But I’m also impacted by my “Twitter Dads”–Christian giants on Twitter who I’ve never met but let me in on their every day lives. I’d only be able to watch from a distance in the past. For example…

• @MichaelHyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, who shows this single guy what it looks like to love your wife. He and @GailHyatt go for walks in downtown Franklin, TN, several times a week.
• @AlbertMohler, president of Southern Seminary, who you normally see debating Christianity on CNN. He tweets about fishing with his son.
• I follow @EdStetzer, missiologist, for Lifeway who has a hilarious sense of humor. He also tweets about losing weight (he’s lost 125 lbs in the last few months).
• @ShaunAlexander, former NFL MVP, led a kid to Christ in Waffle House a few weeks back. Pretty cool.

These are just a few. Say what you want, but they impact me every day…

…They really have.

I wonder what it would mean to a kid who grew up without a dad?

Twitter can be a very low level of discipleship. The grand Twitter conversation is a hot mess most of the time, but if you listen close, you can hear the sound of iron sharpening iron. I wonder if the church will notice.

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