Protestants Struggle Most With Temptation of Eating Too Much

The most common temptation that Protestants admit to is eating too much, according to a Barna study.

Compared with Catholics (44 percent) and the rest of the American public (55 percent), Protestants (66 percent) are most likely to say they are often or sometimes tempted by eating too much.

On other temptations, Protestants struggle on a similar level as other American adults. Fifty-eight percent of Protestants (vs. 60 percent all adults) say they are tempted by worrying or being anxious; 57 percent of Protestants (vs. 60 percent all adults) say they struggle with procrastinating; 42 percent (vs. 44 percent all adults) say spending too much time on media is often or sometimes a temptation; and 40 percent (vs. 41 percent all adults) list being lazy or “not working as hard as you should” as a struggle.

A little over a third of both Protestants and all adults say they’re tempted by spending more money than they can afford.
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Encouraging Bible Verses About The Love of God | Life Bible Verses

Encouraging Bible Verses About The Love of God | Life Bible Verses.

Great article on some of my favorite bible verses on the Love of God

lift student ministry tshirt

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Christian tshirts for youth groups can take on many many styles and colors. Here is an example of a one off design for the Lift Student Ministry. Youth ministers love us because we take time with each client to make sure we communicate the message that the group desires. It’s not always an easy task, but as they say, someone has to do it.

Our designers have a keen eye for the styles that todays youth like and will wear. Anyone can slap a bible verse on the back of a tshirt, but it may take a few tries to get a graphic to be “just right”. We aim to please when we start a project from scratch. Youth pastors usually come to us for a Christian tshirt idea for their youth group. Sometimes that idea is scratched out on a napkin from Denney’s and sometimes Youth Pastors employ an additional graphic designer that works hours to put that perfect Christian graphic design makes it’s mark.

Youthgrouptshirts also has over 500 designs called templates that can speed the process of design and print. A free name drop or changing the text is the way to go if the youth pastor is on a budget and has also waited until the last minute to order. Hey, we know it happens.

Search and Rescue Christian Tshirt

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Here is a tshirt we did a few years ago, and have reprinted several times changing the text. This theme deals with basic discipleship training. Colors are striking and it has an army feel to it with the shirt color. Youthgrouptshirts can take most of these designs and use them as a template for your next youth group design. We have been in business for over 25 years helping youth pastors and ministries achieve the message that they desire on their groups tshirts.

Whether you want 50 or 500 Christian tshirts we can usually meet your deadline and create a cutting edge design that your youth group or Christian organization will be pleased with wearing.

If you have a budget we can help you make it happen with what you have to work with. Most tshirt jobs can be completed within a 7 – 10 day turnaround. From our shop to your door. We would love getting a chance to win your business.

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3 observations on a Christian tshirt

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3 observations for this Christian tshirt. First the noticeable element of a strong font selection. The font is bold and definitive, it does not distract from the overall design and compliments the entire graphic. Secondly, the overall graphic is unquestionably Christian in nature and scope. The message is bold and based on a popular Bible passage located in the book of Proverbs. The tshirt is appropriate for children and adults. The colors are vibrant and the printing looks to be of exceptional quality. A black tshirt with a red and gray imprint with a crackle distressed finish. Lastly, the tshirt has great subtle message overtones with the bent barbell and wings in the background. All in all a great Christian tshirt design.

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Christian tshrit | Life Hurts God Heals

“Hand Drawn Life Hurts God Heals Tshirt” A two color, soft hand design. When it’s time to make a change. The Gildan 5000 is a 5.3 oz. 100% preshrunk cotton; seamless rib at neck; taped shoulder-to-shoulder; double-needle stitching throughout; Please check the sizing chart below to insure you get the correct size. … Check out this tshirt and more at Ziz Clothing.

Ziz Clothing – Quirky Christian Tshirts

Welcome to the world of Christian tshirts. Type in Christian tshirts in your Google search and you will pull up a very wide variety of tastes and categories. From Kerusso to C28 to NOTW … the big boys take the market share of the first couple of pages. Kerusso and C28 both have affiliate programs so … their shirts will show up on tons … I mean tons of sites. The little known or up and coming sites like …  zoethreads have some fantastic tshirts … but the market is pretty much bloated with other Christian tshirts that are alot of transfer stuff. I personally really liked the jesusbranded stuff … but alas they are not around right now. So, I’m plugging another up and coming site … Ziz Clothing. There was a lot of their stuff on Tuna Tees as well … but now these guys are going after it with what they call … Quirky Christian Tshirts. I like them … they are simple, funny and different. I know they have only been up a few weeks … but they are showing up on Googles radar a few pages back. Check them out.

Tuna Tees Funny Christian Tshirts

Thought our readers would enjoy a new Chrsitian Tshirt Site called Tuna Tees. We have enjoyed looking at the cool designs from these wonderfully funny people. You might want to hit up some of these links below for categories that are of interest.

Check out Tuna Tees For Tshirts to buy on the Fly –

Funny Christian Tshirts – Christian Tshirts – Cheerleader Tshirts – Christian Biker Tshirts – Valkyrie Tshirts – Goldwing Tshirts – Eco Tshirts – Farm Tshirts – Worship Tshirts – Youth Group Tshirts – Bicycle Tshirts – Dnow Tshirts – Funny Tshirts

Really fun stuff.

Youth Ministry Resources and Ideas

Youth Ministry Resources and Ideas
By Allison Westbrook

Youth ministry can be an overwhelming job. It is a thankless job that involves sacrifice, effort, time, attention and love. It is in fact a labor of love. Building a successful youth group requires many things, but most of all prayer. Your priorities must first be straight before you do anything. A ministry is better if it is blessed than stressed. Nothing that youth pastors do that is self motivated will succeed the way that something will that is planned and ordained by the Lord. As for building a lasting and effective youth ministry, the principles are simple: Connect, unite, develop, equip, send. Those five steps will turn every youth into a minister of the gospel.

Connect with youth by listening to their problems, preaching relevant messages, hanging out with them when you don’t have to and praying for them. Once they are connected with both their youth pastor, they are more likely to return week after week.

Unite kids with each other to create a support system. Dissipate cliques in favor of group gatherings such as lock-ins, retreats and hang out nights. Develop the kids with discipleship tools for spiritual growth. Teach them the foundational principles of the Bible and encourage them to not only come to church to be filled, but to seek God during their daily lives.

Equip youth to minister the Word of God to others. Hold corporate prayer meetings, encourage them to lead classes in youth church and place them in positions of leadership within the youth ministry. Send the kids into active ministry. No, they may not be able to go into full time ministry, but they can create prayer groups at school, street ministry teams and conduct special outreaches.

One of the biggest mistakes that youth pastors make is investing their money and resources into ministry. Though this seems innocent enough, any youth ministry can thrive with little to no money at all. Instead, invest your kids into your resources. They are your greatest tool for ministry. Youth do not need a babysitter. They need somebody that believes in them and will push them to be all they have been called to be.

Even the top youth pastors in the country know that a youth ministry will follow its leader, and that leader needs good training. That leader needs to absorb himself in good books and surround himself with people who love teenagers. There are several good books and resources that effectively ignite passion within the hearts of youth pastors.

The website below features free ideas, articles and suggestions for youth church. One of the best resources for youth ministry is available there.

http://www.ministertoyouth.com

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Ministry Coaching 101 — Getting Past Pooped

Part of the ministry role I have now in my life is coaching ministry leaders. Way back, when I was praying through my calling before going to college, I had considered being a high school coach. I ended up a pastor—a church planter and pastor. Now I am coaching pastors and church planting pastors. Its part of my story.

Gary Collins wrote, “Coaching is the key element in producing good leaders. To be a good leader you must be a good coach. And to be a good coach you must recognize that coaching is a significant form of leadership” – Christian Coaching.

If you think back on your life, I suspect that there was a coach who had an influence on your life—good or bad. For some, it might be a football coach. Others it had to do with the arts or science or scouts. Maybe it was a neighborhood dad who took a real interest in you and some others around. Coaching had a major impact on you.

When you consider your church ministry, let me ask you a question: Who is often the most under-resourced person in the church? Who gets the least amount of support and attention? (Besides you I would add).

Some chief complaints of leaders in the church are they feel uncared for, under-resourced and under appreciated—they are pooped. So often we get someone to volunteer for a leadership role—elder, deacon, small group leader, Sunday school teacher, or music—maybe give them a one day training event and then turn them loose. We delegate to them the responsibility to make it work. And they get pooped.

Here is a Principle: There are organizational systems that free leaders to lead and some that are ministry “stallers” and “stoppers”.

In church planting, studies show that a church planter who meets regularly with a coach will start a church that is two times the size of one where the planter isn’t coached. And if the planter meets regularly with a group of peers, it increases the survivability of the new church 135%. Pretty amazing influence of what coaching can do for a leader.

Coaching is essential to the ongoing health and survivability of your leaders in your church—to cut down on the pooped-out leaders. But not just any kind of coaching methodology will work. Gospel Centered, grace-saturated coaching is the kind your people need…and maybe you need as well. More on that later!

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