What is UNMOVABLE all about?
Thank you for checking out Unmovable. I am excited and humbled to get to partner with youth groups in the Austin area through this ministry. The goal is to help your youth strengthen their faith and to trust God’s word from the very first verse.
I’ve been doing creation ministry for several years now, and have had the opportunity to speak to adults, college students, youth, and kids. However, it was as I was preparing to go speak in Scotland that it became clear that I want, and need, to focus on our youth. For a decade now we have been doing studies that have all shown the same results. Two thirds of our youth are ditching the church when they leave their parents homes. This is devastating to think about, and if you are like me, you have experienced a young person do this. They head to college, and freshman year, the world and evolutionary professors come crashing down on them.
Unfortunately, for a youth pastor, it’s an uphill battle. Most of the time, the school has them for 6 or 7 hours a day, 5 days a week and then they pass them off to YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, and their friends. If they watch TV or movies? The evolutionary propaganda continues. They are continually told that they don’t need old backward thinking religion. They are told they don’t need God. Science has explained everything we need and we can make the world a good place on our own. Then finally, the youth pastor comes in....but how much time do you get to help renew their minds, battle the lies, and encourage them to stand strong on the authority of scripture? Out of the 168 hours in a week you get one, two, maybe three hours? It can be frustrating. While it’s good that it keeps us relying on God, we want to do more. I want to give these youth an unmovable foundation that is unshakeable. 1 Corinthians 15:58 says “Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. That’s my heart… to help give each youth a steadfast faith that won’t crumbled when they are on their own for the first time.
You may be wondering, why creation? Why not just focus on Jesus? The truth is, and you know this, it’s about the authority of scripture. If we tell people, “Oh you don’t have to worry about that part of the bible”, it leaves the door open for them to decide what other parts they don’t want, or feel like, worrying about. The question is, if we don’t trust God’s word from from the very first verse, at what chapter and verse do we start? In John 3:12 Jesus, Himself, asks, If you don’t believe me on the earthly things, how will you believe me when I tell you about heavenly things? There’s a correlation there. In fact, Creation Ministries Intl did a documentary called Fallout that surveyed college students on secular campuses. They found students who had been involved in their youth group, and asked them a key question. They were asked, In your youth group were you exposed to Creation teaching? Did they show some of the evidence and science behind biblical creation? Unfortunately, of the students that were not exposed to creation teaching, most of them believed in evolution and no longer attended church. Now, here’s the exciting part. What they found was that of the students who had been taught the evidence and some of the science behind biblical creation… every single one of them still believed in creation and were still attending church on their own. That should excite us, because, while it’s not a magical pill, it means that if we can give the answers to the questions they have or will face, they will stand strong on the authority of scripture. That is exactly why I want to partner with youth pastors/teachers/workers.
Now, because I’m teaching youth, my presentations are fast paced, interactive, and very visual. I want them to see the observable evidence of biblical 6 day creation, not just hear about it. I like giving away prizes to encourage kids to submit questions for Q&A and throwing out dinosaurs to everyone who takes a shot at a question during my talks.
I love seeing kids eyes light up when we talk about this stuff. Every time I speak, I hear stories of kids who go home and tell their parents and their friends what they learned. When I do a series I tend to get other classes come join us after they hear what’s going on. But the most important thing is that we have fun and we learn that, based on the world we see around us, we can trust God’s word from the very first verse.
One of the key talks I do is called, “It Just Doesn’t Take Millions of Years”. It goes through and destroys all the icons of millions of years…coal, diamonds, fossils, etc. However, my favorite talk is “The De-Evolution of Dinosaurs”. Everybody is fascinated with dinosaurs! This one goes in and systematically shows that we can see evidence upon evidence that dinosaurs didn’t die out 65 million years ago. You can check out a full list of talks I do below.
The great part is that whether it’s a one time talk, a monthly segment, or a three week series, we can figure out what would work best for your group and your church. My heart is to help you equip your youth.
I want to make bringing in a creation speaker easy, and take away the obstacles. That includes any kind of fees too. This is a ministry to reach youth and money shouldn’t be a concern. You’ll notice I don’t have any kind of fee listed. If you and your church can give a love offering or honorarium to support what I do, that’s awesome. It doesn’t matter what the numbers are. What matters is that we’re coming together and continuing to build that unmovable foundation in your youth, so they will stand strong and walk with the Lord as they get out on their own.
If you’d like to get more information or start putting together a plan, you can contact me with the form on the partner page. Just let me know how you like to communicate. (email, phone, text, etc.)
I’ve been doing creation ministry for several years now, and have had the opportunity to speak to adults, college students, youth, and kids. However, it was as I was preparing to go speak in Scotland that it became clear that I want, and need, to focus on our youth. For a decade now we have been doing studies that have all shown the same results. Two thirds of our youth are ditching the church when they leave their parents homes. This is devastating to think about, and if you are like me, you have experienced a young person do this. They head to college, and freshman year, the world and evolutionary professors come crashing down on them.
Unfortunately, for a youth pastor, it’s an uphill battle. Most of the time, the school has them for 6 or 7 hours a day, 5 days a week and then they pass them off to YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, and their friends. If they watch TV or movies? The evolutionary propaganda continues. They are continually told that they don’t need old backward thinking religion. They are told they don’t need God. Science has explained everything we need and we can make the world a good place on our own. Then finally, the youth pastor comes in....but how much time do you get to help renew their minds, battle the lies, and encourage them to stand strong on the authority of scripture? Out of the 168 hours in a week you get one, two, maybe three hours? It can be frustrating. While it’s good that it keeps us relying on God, we want to do more. I want to give these youth an unmovable foundation that is unshakeable. 1 Corinthians 15:58 says “Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. That’s my heart… to help give each youth a steadfast faith that won’t crumbled when they are on their own for the first time.
You may be wondering, why creation? Why not just focus on Jesus? The truth is, and you know this, it’s about the authority of scripture. If we tell people, “Oh you don’t have to worry about that part of the bible”, it leaves the door open for them to decide what other parts they don’t want, or feel like, worrying about. The question is, if we don’t trust God’s word from from the very first verse, at what chapter and verse do we start? In John 3:12 Jesus, Himself, asks, If you don’t believe me on the earthly things, how will you believe me when I tell you about heavenly things? There’s a correlation there. In fact, Creation Ministries Intl did a documentary called Fallout that surveyed college students on secular campuses. They found students who had been involved in their youth group, and asked them a key question. They were asked, In your youth group were you exposed to Creation teaching? Did they show some of the evidence and science behind biblical creation? Unfortunately, of the students that were not exposed to creation teaching, most of them believed in evolution and no longer attended church. Now, here’s the exciting part. What they found was that of the students who had been taught the evidence and some of the science behind biblical creation… every single one of them still believed in creation and were still attending church on their own. That should excite us, because, while it’s not a magical pill, it means that if we can give the answers to the questions they have or will face, they will stand strong on the authority of scripture. That is exactly why I want to partner with youth pastors/teachers/workers.
Now, because I’m teaching youth, my presentations are fast paced, interactive, and very visual. I want them to see the observable evidence of biblical 6 day creation, not just hear about it. I like giving away prizes to encourage kids to submit questions for Q&A and throwing out dinosaurs to everyone who takes a shot at a question during my talks.
I love seeing kids eyes light up when we talk about this stuff. Every time I speak, I hear stories of kids who go home and tell their parents and their friends what they learned. When I do a series I tend to get other classes come join us after they hear what’s going on. But the most important thing is that we have fun and we learn that, based on the world we see around us, we can trust God’s word from the very first verse.
One of the key talks I do is called, “It Just Doesn’t Take Millions of Years”. It goes through and destroys all the icons of millions of years…coal, diamonds, fossils, etc. However, my favorite talk is “The De-Evolution of Dinosaurs”. Everybody is fascinated with dinosaurs! This one goes in and systematically shows that we can see evidence upon evidence that dinosaurs didn’t die out 65 million years ago. You can check out a full list of talks I do below.
The great part is that whether it’s a one time talk, a monthly segment, or a three week series, we can figure out what would work best for your group and your church. My heart is to help you equip your youth.
I want to make bringing in a creation speaker easy, and take away the obstacles. That includes any kind of fees too. This is a ministry to reach youth and money shouldn’t be a concern. You’ll notice I don’t have any kind of fee listed. If you and your church can give a love offering or honorarium to support what I do, that’s awesome. It doesn’t matter what the numbers are. What matters is that we’re coming together and continuing to build that unmovable foundation in your youth, so they will stand strong and walk with the Lord as they get out on their own.
If you’d like to get more information or start putting together a plan, you can contact me with the form on the partner page. Just let me know how you like to communicate. (email, phone, text, etc.)