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| By Scott Osterbind—Tuesday May 31st, 2011 |
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My parents grew up relatively poor. My mom was the fifth daughter of missionary parents and my dad was one of six children in a working-class family. Both of them worked really hard to provide a good childhood for my sister and me. My father was an immigrant to South Africa and had the work ethic common to immigrants around the world. They worked hard in their professional lives and made sure that we lived in a good suburb so that we could go to the best public schools. They encouraged each ...
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| By Scott Osterbind—Tuesday May 31st, 2011 |
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In the two years since Abandon’s Forefront Records debut Searchlights, the San Antonio-based band scored a Dove nomination, throngs of critical acclaim and tours alongside Fireflight, Building 429, Remedy Drive, Teen Mania’s Acquire the Fire, plus a plethora of major faith-based festivals. Amongst all the activity, the modern rockers crafted its sophomore CD Control, which finds the five-some taking the next natural evolutionary musical step, while also turning inward for their g...
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| By Allen Weed—Tuesday May 31st, 2011 |
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The digital age is affecting more than how America communicates. It is also shaping parent-child relationships in striking new ways. Barna Group recently completed a study about the influence of technology in families, releasing the findings in a new digital report, “The Family And Technology”.
Highlights from the study included the following five findings:
1. Parents are just as dependent on technology as are teens and tweens.
2. Most family members, even parents, feel that ...
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| By Allen Weed—Tuesday May 31st, 2011 |
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Yep! You are a VIP this summer! Come visit us at these special areas at select festivals and conferences this summer. At the Youth Leaders Only Hospitality Area you have personal time with artists (Artist Talk-Backs), free soft drinks, networking and ministry times with other youthworkers, special training sessions to help you be more effective in your ministry.
Artist Talk- Back Sessions
We call it an “Artist Talk Back” - but it's really an artist/youth leader tal...
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| By Scott Osterbind—Tuesday May 31st, 2011 |
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One of the greatest gifts of story is not only the fun it offers, but the opportunity to see yourself in the story and learn from it, to be changed by it. Great Stories Inspire Great Lives is a promotion from Thomas Nelson Fiction that seeks to bring you those kinds of stories. We believe great stories do inspire kids and we want to help you reach them, encouraging them to read, calling them up to be all God has called them to be - and have fun in the process! Invasion by Jon S. Lewis is one of ...
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| By Allen Weed—Tuesday May 17th, 2011 |
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“At the end of the 2009-2010, two rising Seniors at Sullivan East High School in Blountville, TN told me that they wanted to make sure they shared the gospel with each of their fellow classmates during their senior year. I shared with them the story of another local senior class that had just purchased ConGRADulations 2010s for each of their classmates as a way of investing into their eternities before they graduated.
The two seniors from Sullivan East High, took on the challenge ...
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