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World of Warcraft FAQs for Christians: Should we play WoW?

Is this whole area a place that demonic strongholds can affect a person’s life in reality?
It may be possible, but highly improbable. If World of Warcraft…

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World of Warcraft FAQs for Christians: Demonic warfare?

What about the curses and hexes involved? Is this demonic warfare and does it desensitize players to true evil in the world?
Neither the skills nor the context…

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World of Warcraft FAQs: How much time is too much?

What is an appropriate amount of time spent playing World of Warcraft?
I won’t try to suggest an hourly amount of what is acceptable gaming time for a…

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World of Warcraft FAQs for Christians: Negative and positive aspects?

What are the positive aspects of MMOs?

As a Christian, there a tons of ministry opportunities in these games! I’ve even blogged in the past about some of…

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World of Warcraft FAQs for Christians: Why is it so addictive?

Why is World of Warcraft so addictive?
When Paul Sams, the COO of Blizzard (the company that makes WoW), was asked why people play World of Warcraft, his answer…

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World of Warcraft FAQs for Christians: What are MMOs?

What are MMO games?
According to Wikipedia, “A massively (or massive) multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG is a multiplayer computer…

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World of Warcraft FAQs for Christians: Introduction

A couple months ago a question showed up in my Inbox (paraphrased):
“What is the game, World of Warcraft? I am in contact with a parent who has a son who…

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Terapad review: A new blogging platform youth group websites

Using Blogger to communicate youth group news isn’t really a new idea. I know of several churches that use it quite effectively. However, a new blogging…

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My most popular blog posts of 2006

To be honest, I’m a little disappointed as I look over my blog stats for 2006 and see which posts where the most popular last year. As I said before…

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Issues in Youth Ministry: Summary, highlights and discussion

Here’s a summary list of every issue in youth ministry that’s been mentioned by one of the series contributors. Whew! There certainly are a lot of…

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