From the award winning producers of FLYWHEEL, comes an action-packed drama about a Christian high school football coach who uses his undying faith to battle the giants of fear and failure. In six years of coaching, Grant Taylor has never led his Shiloh Eagles to a winning season. After learning that he and his wife Brooke face infertility, Grant discovers that a group of fathers are secretly organizing to have him dismissed as head coach. Devastated by his circumstances, he cries out to God in desperation. When Grant receives a message from an unexpected visitor, he searches for a stronger purpose for his football team. He dares to challenge his players to believe God for the impossible on and off the field. When faced with unbelievable odds, the Eagles must step up to their greatest test of strength and courage. What transpires is a dynamic story of the fight between faith and fear. Facing the Giants is a powerful experience for the whole family inspiring viewers to live with faith, hope, and love!

Welcome to FIREPROOF, an action-packed love story that will have audiences laughing, crying, and on the edge of their seats as they are drawn into the world of a firefighter, his wife ... and a marriage worth rescuing. FIREPROOF is the third movie from Sherwood Pictures, the hope-filled, heartfelt moviemaking ministry of Sherwood Baptist Church that continues to touch the world from Albany, Georgia.

Scouring the Patrologia Latina and Patrologia Graeca, there nothing to suggest that Ambrose had ever led teens on ski trips to the nearby Alps. Digging through the Eastern Fathers, there are no junior-high dances, not even a pizza party in either Antioch or Alexandria. In fact, in all the documentary evidence from all the ancient patriarchates of the East and the West, there's not a single bulletin announcement for a single parish youth group.

Yet the Fathers had enormous success in youth and young-adult ministry. How did the Fathers do it?

Visit this article to find out...

Many Christian Churches worldwide are attempting to “re-brand” Christianity as young, cool, and hip. While these efforts appear to have varying degrees of success in attracting young Christians, are these gimmicks really going to bring young people back to church for the long-run?

How do you break through the technological barriers of this tech-savvy teen subculture? What role (if any) does sacred Scripture play in the life of Catholic adolescents? Do modern teens actually want to pick up a Bible and read or have conversations with mouths and not thumbs?

Mark Hart shares an insight on how to get teens excited about Scripture... "Teens want truth, and the Catholic Church has it."

Keywords: bible, subculture, adolescent, modern, teens, scripture

Most needs in each parish can be met by its parishioners. The trouble is that all of the money is still in their pockets...In many cases, church leadership has not even asked for what they need. They haven’t asked for parishioner money. They haven’t asked for support. They haven’t asked for prayers. They haven’t asked for help. If you don’t ask (multiple times), you (almost always) don’t get.

Keywords: money, parishioner, fundraiser, parish

This is a parody of the song YMCA by The Village People. It is a loving homage to the RCIA process (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) by Nick Alexander (a.k.a the Catholic WeirdAl), who also went through the RCIA  to convert to Catholicism.

The song is available on "A Time to Laugh" (2000), and is available on iTunes, or the website www.nickalexander.com.

Keywords: Christian, catholicism

So Cute!

Mr Bean plays with a Nativity Scene in an English shopping centre. This could be a good clip to show your Youth Group coming closer to Christmas.

And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. (John 6:35)

Soul Food is a place where young Catholics meet on the last Tuesday of the month at Castle Hill Tavern in Sydney, Australia to get some spiritual food and perhaps a beer and a pizza too!

If you cannot make it to the Tav, subscribe to this podcast and listen to the Soul Food talks on xt3.com

Music is licensed under a Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

"Hear Us Now (poptastic mix)" by scottaltham http://ccmixter.org/files/scottaltham/20747