Welcome to Season One Episode Five of the Critiques and Caffeine Podcast! I’m Zach Haas and I’m a youth pastor ordained in the Wesleyan Church. In this first season, we are looking at some of the pet peeves I have with Christianity. So, thank you for joining me today as we look at how some modern worship songs are catchy,
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Welcome to Season One Episode Three of the Critiques and Caffeine Podcast! I’m Zach Haas and I run the same blog over at zachhaas.com. In this first season, we are going to be looking at some of the pet peeves I have with Christianity. Thank you for joining me today as we look at how too many people see God
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Welcome to Season One Episode One of the Critiques and Caffeine Podcast! I’m Zach Haas and I run the same blog over at www.zachhaas.com. In this first season, we are going to be looking at some of the pet peeves I have discovered with Christianity. Thank you for joining me today as we look at how God is still good,
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With more things get canceled each week, we find ourselves more and more under quarantine. Here are some ideas for the Christian person to do. I originally created this for youth group.
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It’s no secret that New York State (and others at this point) has passed a bill allowing late term abortions. Many Christians find this to be an appalling move. Others are okay with the medical necessities that might be involved. But what would Jesus say about the new law? Let’s take a look at what I think.
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That’s right. God does not need you and he doesn’t need me either. This may come as a harsh reality to some of us. As a matter of fact, I have had someone get very upset with me when I made the statement that God does not need us. So hang on for a minute. I promise that there is
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Author of Love Melissa and I recently went to a conference geared toward youth ministry. We got to hear form a lot of different speakers and learn a lot of different things. Some of them were authors, some of them lead a company, and others just knew what they were doing and were successful. One author/speaker/evangelist was David Nasser. The
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Theology 101 Theology is not necessarily one of my strongest points when it comes to Christianity. While I think that I have a solid enough understanding of theology and a working knowledge of the study, this is more acquired than it is of any formal substance. This is because I essentially skipped over all of the basic introduction to theology
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Jesus and the Sword Take a moment and think about all the stories that you know about Jesus. Do any of them have a sword in them? Probably not. Unless you are thinking of the book of Revelation where Jesus comes back as a conqueror, the closest violent based story most people can come up with is when he makes
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Youth Conventions Being a youth pastor and having a passion for teenagers and developing an eternal faith in them, I have a particular interest in youth conventions. I am sure that there are many more than five reasons that youth conventions are important. However, I would like to provide people with five reasons why I personally think they are one
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