![]() How in the world could you add one more thing to your schedule?Īnd yet, how many of you listed time alone with God as one of the activities on your calendar? How many times this week have you felt stressed, overloaded, or overwhelmed? (Tell a personal story from when you were a teenager – how the stress, pace and technology (or lack thereof) made life very different.) Let’s face it: The stress that you face each day is real, isn’t it? Raise your hand if you are now officially stressed out. This should lead to everyone being stressed out! (Gather the groups together and tell the group to be sure to try to guess as many activities in each groups’ day as possible.) I will give you 5 minutes to work on your stressful day reenactment. Now, get in groups of 2-3 people and choose one of your clocks to act out in less than 25 seconds – being sure to act out every single activity that was listed. (Give students 5-10 minutes to complete the activity) Then, once you’ve drawn the clock, I want you to fill in what you did for each minute of that most stressful day that you thought of just a minute ago. On this paper plate, draw a clock face, and no, not a digital one. Now, here is what I want you to do: (Give each person a paper plate and a pencil/pen). I want you to pick out the most stressful day over the past few weeks that you’ve had. Set up a table in the room with Post-it notes (broken into small stacks) and pens. Looking for youth ministry curriculum? Check out the… ONE YEAR CURRICULUM, VOL 3 – Save 82% on one year of Bible studies and teaching curriculum for youth ministry.īottom Line: Spending time with God can be the best part of your day – so be creative! The lesson helps students learn that spending time with God can be the best part of your day – so be creative! ![]() ![]() Here is a free youth group lesson on quiet time, based on James 4: 8-10. ![]()
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In information technology, lossy compression or irreversible compression is the class of data compression methods that uses inexact approximations and partial data discarding to represent the content. ![]() ![]() Our program was produced today by Chris Benderev. If they do quote someone, it's often this guy, Mick West. Unfortunately, with scientists off doing, you know, science, there is almost no one left to try to set the record straight, no one to quote in those news stories saying, you know, I think that's just a weather balloon. "Because the human sensory system sucks." But basically, every scientist in every university is sitting it out.Īs Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist who runs the planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, put it, he was talking about the people who believe these things are spaceships, quote, "The fact that you don't know what it is is not evidence that you know what it is, OK? You know why science exists?" he says. I can't think of a font big enough for the front page. If any of these photos or radar blips or whatever really were alien craft, it would be the greatest discovery of all time. If alien spacecraft are here, shouldn't we have better pictures?Īnd the fact that basically no scientists seem interested in this at all and prefer to dwell on, say, detailed questions of how solar systems form, it tells you something. But today, every single person with a smartphone has a super powerful camera in their pocket. In the '50s, it may be made sense that all the UFO photos were blurry and hard to decipher. I mean, maybe there is some way around it, but it really, really does not seem like it.Īnd think about it for a second. The universe really does seem to have a speed limit. It just gets you a tiny bit closer to the speed of light. You can double the amount of energy you're using, and it doesn't double the speed. We got to 99.999954% of the speed of light. They get very close to the speed of light, but they do not go faster. And I can tell you, you can try to make those particles go as fast as you want. I worked on one of those giant particle accelerators. For aliens to actually visit us, if they exist in the first place, they would either need to be insanely patient or be able to travel faster than the speed of light because the nearest stars are crazy far away. I have reasons for thinking all this is bullshit- science reasons. And midway through, I realized, oh, I have to be polite because it's clear they think this is real. Particularly maddening are conversations I've had with people I know about this. Even so, he insisted on sending me at least one video. He told me he was nervous about filming outside because the soldiers didn't like it when people did that. He walked around the neighborhood with his dad. They hugged and drank tea together, just like old times. On the first day back, he made sure to see his grandmother. 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It wasn't until hours later he found out his grandmother had survived. We came to my grandma's, and we couldn't enter because the house was completely mined. ![]() ![]() Is India Ink Safe For Tattoos?Īlthough India ink is technically safe for use with tattoos, there are a number of conditions that do apply that will make it increasingly risky for both potential health issues as well as tattoo quality. We know that a number of people do make their own homemade Indian ink and we would never recommend that you use homemade Indian ink for your tattoo work. In our opinion though, regular tattoo ink is almost always going to be better than using Indian ink and it is often around the same price as regular tattoo ink too. One of the more common options is Winsor & Newton Liquid Indian Ink and we know that it has been used heavily for tattoo work over the years. 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