Jesus Friends Seva: January 2019

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Pew: Sunday Regulars Are Happier and Healthier

Across 25 countries, active religious participation is linked with habits like nonsmoking, community involvement, and voting.

During his sabbatical at the end of last year, Chance the Rapper quit smoking while studying Scripture. “I feel really good right now, thank u Father,” he wrote on Instagram, where he shared passages of Scripture and counted days gone by without another cigarette.

The Chicago native, who has become outspoken about his walk with Christ in his music and public life, is one example of a trend researchers found among the faithful: Believers who are active in their faith tend to make healthier choices and live happier lives.

Religious habits make a major difference for smoking status in particular, according to a Pew Research Center report released today on religion and well-being.

Among Americans who identify as Christian or another religious tradition and attend services at least once a month, 85 percent don’t smoke, compared to 74 percent of the religiously unaffiliated and 72 percent of those who attend services less often.

The trend holds up around the world, where regular worshipers are less likely to smoke by a significant margin in 16 of 19 countries surveyed. (In most of those places, the active religious also drank less, but not by as wide a margin.)

Smoking and drinking were among several measures of wellbeing analyzed in the new report, based on data from the World Values Survey (2010–2014), the International Social Survey Programme, and Pew surveys.

Religious attendance—rather than religious affiliation—consistently linked to higher levels of happiness than the growing population of people around the globe who claim no faith. The report said:

Whatever the explanation may be, more than one-third describe themselves as very happy, compared with just a quarter of both inactive and unaffiliated ...

from Christianity Today Magazine http://bit.ly/2WxIRA8

Top 20 Custom Home Youtube Channels To Follow in 2019

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1. My House Design Build Team

Canada
About Youtuber For Home Renovations & Custom Home Builds in Vancouver, The My House Design/Build Team are your renovation and custom home professionals. We are committed to doing our part in leading our industry towards environmentally conscious "Green" practices & making a difference in our communities.
Since Aug 2011
Channel youtube.com/user/MyHouseTeam..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 3,588 . Views Count- 557,552 . Video Count - 37

2. Golden Eagle Log and Timber Homes

Wisconsin, USA
About Youtuber We're sharing how-to videos and ideas for your next custom home. We are family owned with 5,000 satisfied homeowners in 49 states and Canada.
Since May 2008
Channel youtube.com/user/goldeneagle..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 2,983 . Views Count- 1,614,422 . Video Count - 82

3. Stanley Martin Custom Homes

Reston, VA
About Youtuber Stanley Martin Custom Homes is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stanley Martin Homes. Before we pick up a hammer or saw, we pick up a pen and paper and listen carefully to what you want in a home. We discuss your family, your needs, and the way you live. We figure out what features are most important and determine the best fit for your budget and location.
Since Apr 2013
Channel youtube.com/user/NBRSER/v..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 2,364 . Views Count- 312,595 . Video Count - 43

4. America's Home Place

About Youtuber Welcome to America's Home Place, the nation's leading On-Your-Lot Custom Home Builder. Our company has been helping customers build quality, custom homes. It offers quality, custom built homes, built one board at a time, on your land, at affordable prices.
Since Apr 2008
Channel youtube.com/user/ahpvideos/v..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 1,332 . Views Count- 716,110 . Video Count - 146

5. PresPro Custom Homes

Charlotte, NC
About Youtuber Our mission statement is simple: Produce. Our company strongly believes in honesty, integrity, transparency, and responsibility. It's easy to find companies and individuals who look to benefit from others rather than to be the source of benefit themselves. We look to be that source of benefit to our clients by producing a quality service, a simple process, and an excellent product.
Since Sep 2014
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCdTI..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 653 . Views Count- 97,479 . Video Count - 34

6. Keystone Custom Homes

Lancaster, PA
About Youtuber Keystone Custom Homes is Central PA's leading new home builder. We build in communities that are perfectly located throughout Central and South Eastern PA and Northeastern MD, exactly where you want to be.
Since Mar 2009
Channel youtube.com/user/KeystoneCus..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 342 . Views Count- 434,356 . Video Count - 89

7. Adair Homes

Pacific Northwest
About Youtuber Adair Homes is the Pacific Northwest's largest and most experienced builder of affordable custom homes. With 14 locations to serve you, we build the new home you want, where you want it. Our exclusive customization process opens up endless possibilities to afford the dream home you've always wanted.
Since Oct 2015
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCJHy..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 144 . Views Count- 34,249 . Video Count - 76

8. American Classic Homes

About Youtuber American Classic Homes is a local, Washington based, family business that has built hundreds of new homes in communities all across the greater Seattle area including Renton, Sammamish, Mercer Island, and the Eastside. Our signature custom homes include Mercer Island, Queen Anne panoramic views, and dozens of others across King County.
Since Aug 2012
Channel youtube.com/user/AmericanCla..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 131 . Views Count- 51,409 . Video Count - 53

9. Lifestyle Custom Homes

Toronto
About Youtuber Lifestyle Custom Homes is a premier multi-faceted real estate development company specializing in low-rise real estate development opportunities throughout the GTA.
Since Apr 2015
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCdwx..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 72 . Views Count- 9,522 . Video Count - 30

10. Mayfair Homes

Canada
About Youtuber We are the luxury custom home builders in Toronto. We pride ourselves on providing outstanding customer care that include one-on-one consultations from the beginning to the end of the construction process. Your today's dream is tomorrow's new home, building a custom home is a team work of management and sub trades.
Since Jun 2013
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCSK3..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 68 . Views Count- 21,294 . Video Count - 48

11. Perkins Builder Brothers

United States
About Youtuber Follow the life and work of builder brothers Erik and Jaime, contractors and custom home builders in Western North Carolina. Following in the footsteps of their father, who is an architect and builder, they have been designing and constructing one of a kind homes together for 20 years. On this channel you will find informational and spoof videos on in-progress construction, family adventures, time laps, and video tours on some of the finished projects.
Since Oct 2011
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCKwM..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 66 . Views Count- 8,123 . Video Count - 40

12. Hibbs Homes

St Louis, MO
About Youtuber Hibbs Homes, LLC is a custom home builder in the greater St. Louis area. We specialize in new construction, but have extensive experience in large renovations and additions. Many of our projects are verified Green and Energy Star rated. Kim Hibbs is Certified Green Professional through the National Association of Home Builders.
Channel youtube.com/user/hibbshomes/..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 46 . Views Count- 57,564 . Video Count - 98

13. Gialluisi Custom Homes

United States
About Youtuber Gialluisi designs and builds prestigious custom homes throughout Westfield, New Jersey and surrounding counties.
Since Nov 2015
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCYCG..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 14 . Views Count- 14,572 . Video Count - 100

14. Custom Home Builders Calgary

About Youtuber This channel features custom home-bulding videos in Calgary.
Since Oct 2016
Channel youtube.com/channel/UC7NP..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 13 . Views Count- 620 . Video Count - 52

15. Weston Dean Custom Homes

San Antonio Texas
About Youtuber Weston Dean Custom Homes, is a family owned and operated custom home builder in the San Antonio and surrounding areas.
Since Apr 2012
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCKN4..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 12 . Views Count- 5,349 . Video Count - 34

16. Stadler Custom Homes

About Youtuber Welcome to Stadler Custom Homes, San Antonio's foremost custom homebuilder. We pride ourselves on delivering the highest level of quality and workmanship in the Texas Hill Country.
Since Nov 2014
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCF1b..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 4 . Views Count- 723 . Video Count - 28

17. Lowell Custom Homes

Lake Geneva, WI
About Youtuber Lowell Custom Homes offers finest quality custom home-building and design. Our structures are a testament to individuality. Careful evaluations of individual requests, attention to site and architecture and a range of globally-sourced materials are used to develop and build every Lowell home.
Since Jun 2017
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCtTm..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 3 . Views Count- 1,334 . Video Count - 39

18. Southwest Homes BCS

Bryan, TX
About Youtuber Southwest Homes is a custom home builder that specializes in a creating a design plan that will result in your own unique dream home!
Since Apr 2015
Channel youtube.com/channel/UC1kk..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- 2 . Views Count- 1,716 . Video Count - 49

19. Cresmark Custom Homes

About Youtuber Cresmark Custom Homes brings together the most dynamic team of professionals to design and build your new custom home!
Since Aug 2012
Channel youtube.com/channel/UCjo_..+ Follow
Youtube Followers- n/a . Views Count- 1,650 . Video Count - 24

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Move Over, Sex and Drugs. Ease Is the New Vice.

Do modern amenities make it tough for us to embody God’s love?

According to recent research, teens are starting their sex lives a lot later. Despite shifting cultural norms and new sexual freedoms, our youngest and most virile are apparently having less sex—at least for now. Sociologists and social commentators debate whether the trend is temporary and whether it marks a healthy or unhealthy societal shift. But it’s possible that the so-called sex recession offers evidence of a wide, disturbing trend that has nothing to do with sex—one that is particularly endemic to our cultural moment. The trend bears witness to the ways that we’re increasingly finding embodied life “tiresome.” (In Japan, that’s the word many younger Japanese people to describe intercourse: mendokusai.)

Our apparent fatigue with bodily living extends to other areas, as well. Two years ago, in response to declining cereal sales, market researchers went looking for answers to why younger people were opting out of the convenience food that had fed their parents and grandparents. According to The New York Times, researchers found the reason: Breakfast cereal—with the whole bother of bowl and spoon—involved far too much work. “Almost 40 percent of the millennials surveyed by Mintel for its 2015 report said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice because they had to clean up after eating it.”

The decline in sexual activity and cereal sales hardly seem correlated, but both seem to point to one of the most seductive promises of a technological age: that ours should be an unbothered life. As our lives (at least in the developed world) get easier, we are increasingly formed by the desire for ease. Of all the cautions we raise about technology—its distractions ...

from Christianity Today Magazine http://bit.ly/2Tnb5LZ

Next Steps for Ministry Leaders Following the GC2 Summit

Six next steps for ministry leaders who desire to humbly engage with questions surrounding sexual violence.

In Between Two Worlds, John Stott charges preachers to address controversial topics: “Christian people are crying out for guidance...Shall we abandon them to swim in these deep waters alone? This is the way of the coward.”

If the recent GC2 Summit Responding to Sexual Harassment, Abuse, and Violence said anything, it was this: Church, we will no longer walk in the way of the coward. We will not abandon our people to navigate these waters alone.

Still, the church’s question in this season of lament is the same one the prophet Jeremiah asked of God in his: How?

How, God, can we right these wrongs? How can we do better?

As a woman in church leadership and a survivor of sexual assault, I’d like to suggest six next steps for ministry leaders who desire to humbly engage with these questions. These are by no means comprehensive—others will have crucial expertise and wisdom to offer.

Nonetheless, may these steps encourage us all as we seek to answer our hows.

1 – Learn from women—purposefully.

After hearing complaints about their male-dominated structures and strategies, the elders at Redeemer Fellowship in Kansas City spent time meeting with groups of female church members, asking questions like: What has been hurtful? Where have we overlooked you? What do you long for?

Sarah Davidson, one of the women involved, described the experience as safe and powerful: “The elders didn’t counsel or coddle. They humbly listened, affirmed, and apologized.”

As a result, the church strategically hired more female staff, launched a women’s ministry, changed female titles from “directors” to “ministers,” and invited women to lead on stage.

To Leaders: with a posture ...

from Christianity Today Magazine http://bit.ly/2D0EIfo

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Advocate for the Unborn by Caring for the Living

Caring for women and protecting babies don’t need to be mutually exclusive.

Last Tuesday, the state of New York passed the Reproductive Health Act signing into law a bill that will allow women to receive an abortion up until the baby’s due date. It is, as of now, the most expansive law of its kind in the country but perhaps not for long—pro-abortion advocates are already gearing up for other states to follow New York’s lead.

This development comes at a peculiar time when the American populace has actually been becoming more and more pro-life in recent years. In fact, according to Gallup poll data, 56 percent of Americans in 1995 would have self-described as pro-choice; this number, by 2018, has decreased to 48 percent. Likewise, the number of Americans identifying themselves as pro-life has climbed an enormous fifteen percentage points over that same time frame.

Beyond that, a vast majority (75 percent) of Americans support significant abortion restrictions. Even 60 percent of Democrats support restricting abortion after a woman reaches three months of pregnancy.

While New York’s passing of this law does little to reflect the ideals of the American populace as whole, it nevertheless will have great effect on the lives of thousands of women and children throughout the state.

When laws like this change, people can and should voice their opposition. As we’ve seen over the course of the past week, many continue to rise in defense of the unborn children whose voices have been stifled and human worth called into question. In fact, several states have proposed the passing of ‘heartbeat bills’ making an abortion illegal after a heartbeat has been detected in the baby.

But while legal recourse can be effective, it’s not always possible. In cases when convincing ...

from Christianity Today Magazine http://bit.ly/2RrosZY