Sticks and stones break my bones but words will never hurt me...is a complete lie! Our words have power and James was going so much deeper than just our vocabulary when we talked about taming our tongue.

Catholic? Baptist? Presbyterian? Why are there so many different kinds of churches and is one more right than another?

When it comes to a relationship with Jesus, what's more important: belief in Jesus or doing things for Jesus? James 2:14-26 answers this question with a resounding, "Yes!"

According to James we cannot play favorites –by excluding people based on race, gender, status, job or any of the “OTHER” group. We can’t just put people in boxes and say you’re fake, or you’re poor. We have to remember WE ALL (not they, them, those people) feel lonely, sad; we can all pretend to be happy and be dying on the inside. How do we take “those people” out of the box and extend a compliment, a gesture, try and show them humanity.

Deut. 32:11 - Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he spread his wings to take them up and carried them safely on his pinions.

How do you see yourself? Like, really, deep down, see yourself? What are the names you call yourself, the hurts you hold onto, the things other people have said that you cling to? And how does all that compare to the way that Jesus sees you?

Students share about what God taught them on our recent Winter Retreat and also what they learned from last weeks GYG: Eyes on the Prize

What is your New Year's resolution and how do you make sure you follow through with it?

The age old debate between Science and creation is a hot one among teens. This week, we open up a debate and ask students to share their views on wether both of these issues should be discussed in schools equally, if evolution and intelligent design can co-exist, if the big bang theory and genesis 1 can co-exist and if the "days" in Genesis one are literally 24-days or figurative.

What would it have been like to be either Joseph or Mary for the first Christmas and what can they tell us about how we should respond to stressful circumstances?