Why the Church was Anti-Bullying B4 it was Hip

Disclaimer, I am annoyed by the word bully.  This word covers everything from calling someone a name to actually physically hurting someone in a big way.  Now GLBT community practically owns the word and every time the church stands up against homosexuality it gets labeled as being intolerant and pro-bullying, but the truth is the [...]

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Why I Love Religion and Jesus

This video echos the mantra of so many people today.  Saying, “I hate religion, but I love Jesus” doesn’t say what people think it does.  What people don’t understand is that as soon as you say you believe in something…like Jesus…you have dogma which means you have religion.  Jesus was not anti-religion, he was anti-bad [...]

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Judgmental Church

This probably isn’t what you think…I know it has been in vogue to attack the church from within, calling it judgmental, irrelevant, and out of touch. I’m not going to do that. Actually I am tired of being labeled “judgmental” and I believe it is largely unwarranted. So this post will be a short defense [...]

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BIG CHURCH is for Little People Too

It was a great day today.  We had to wake our kids up early because my wife was singing in the choir today.  We really aren’t a “choir” kind of church, but some times we have specials that are really good; today (Palm Sunday) was one of them.  The kids were crabby, and I wasn’t [...]

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YM Theology is a blog designed to help youth pastors and workers think theologically about youth ministry. John Byrne (the primary author) has been in youth ministry for about 18 years.