{"id":944,"date":"2015-10-06T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/?p=944"},"modified":"2017-05-25T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T19:04:21","slug":"jesus-is-better-than-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/4twelve\/jesus-is-better-than-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus is Better Than Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year in our Sunday School we are doing a series of sermons through the book of Hebrews. \u00a0The book of Hebrews has a very clear theme, <strong>Jesus is Better! \u00a0<\/strong>As a part of this series we will be doing a series of testimony videos from our youth leaders on the areas in their life where they have realized that Jesus is Better than anything else in their life.<\/p>\n<p>It is our hope that this series of videos will allow our parents and teens an opportunity to get to know our leaders better as well as an opportunity to be encouraged with any struggles they may have in their life.<\/p>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6VJ4SeDA398?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><em>Matt Hull is a Pastoral Intern at Faith Church. \u00a0We are thankful for all the ways Matt serves in our youth group including overseeing our Faith West Youth Group.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year in our Sunday School we are doing a series of sermons through the book of Hebrews. \u00a0The book of Hebrews has a very clear theme, Jesus is Better! 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