MySpace

Wow. I would have to say that the past day or so has been both interesting & enlightening. I've heard talk of myspace & how its a good communication tool & a way to stay in contact, etc... I asked the students to fill out a form with their email address & if they had a myspace page, so I could either send them stuff, keep in contact better, or whatever. I was shocked that out of about 60 people, at least 75% of them had myspace. I was surprised to see that so many are involved in it. I spent some time yesterday looking at myspace & the pages of the youth group & their 200 "closest friends." I was surprised, in a bad way, to what I saw. Pure tripe on most of the sites. Even better, some students have multiple sites, with different information & different content that mommy & daddy don't know about. I'm thinking to myself, where is the disconnect with these kids? These people say that are Christian on their site, then follow it with things you would expect to hear from a pissed off army D.I. I shake my head wondering if parents know, or even care what their kids are involved in. Or, maybe the kids watch how their parents live one way privately & another publically & just follow their example. Myspace can be very good, but from what I've seen, it's naughty. Parents, take a look at your kids myspace page...both of them.

Kinda hard to understand...

Tonite was youth group and it was a good one. We were talking about the Holy Spirit & some evidences of being baptized. We talked about tongues & I asked if anyone had heard of tongues. A few raised their hands & one guy said, "it's weird." I asked what was weird & he said that tongues were difficult to understand. I got a good laugh as did the guy who said it.

Get Out of There Clapham

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010301509_pf.html

The part that I enjoyed was the judges rational that included thongs at the beach. Matt, there is hope, but I'm not sure what the law is in Nevada. I was thinking of an appropriate picture to put with this, but after a minute of thinking, I decided I probably wouldn't find one. I wonder if I could attach something from my webcam...