Archive - September, 2011

163 | Having Babies


There’s nothing more precious than meeting a new baby. We’ve talked a lot about marriage around these here parts, but I think it’s due time we spend some time talking about the implications of marriage: babies. These little spawns of theological masters have a unique set of constraints on their life.

From the get go, they are presented with a different worldview than most human beings on earth. The entire outlook on life will be shaped by parents who are steeped in Evangelical theology. The clothes they wear, the food they eat, the thing they do for fun will all be different than that of those born form standard humans.

But to the bible college students popping out out babies while trenched in the Old Testament Backgrounds class: be careful. This simply warning comes with tales of those who have tried and failed. Those who thought they could juggle 4 kids, no job and a full-time class load.

But today, we do not venture to those rocky waters, instead, we’ll look at some of the differences between real world babies and the babies belonging to a bible college student.

Babies from a bible college student:

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162 | Looking for Authentic Friends

A time will come dear cohorts, when just being friends with a bible college student may bite you in the ass. You may not have done anything wrong. You probably just sat there. Eating a pizza. Pondering something meaningful. Then BOOM! It hits you like a ton of gopher wood.

What hits you? You friendlessness from that of a bible college student.

One day, the bible college student will awake and decides they only want “authentic” friends. The trouble with this is, there is no really accurate definition of “authentic” in the mind of our bible college student. It’s very vague and subjective. So what, then? Who gets the axe and who stays? Don’t worry, we got a list for ya!

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161 | Not Doing Homework

There will be a point in the career of a bible college student, where they simply stop doing homework. Without warning, some sort of subconscious trigger with throw the bible college into a dodging homework frenzy. From the innermost of heir insides shooting out from every pore, they will avoid homework like the plague.

Maybe it’s the burnout all bible college students are warned about, maybe they are so close to being done they realize that C’s will get the same degree as A’s, but either way, homework becomes a thing of the past.

But, the bible college student, while confusing, is never without reason. Well, at least a reason for others.

So here they are folks, the top 3 reasons bible college students give up homework:

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160 | Forgiving Everyone

Now this is, first of all, an amazing thing. Jesus forgave tons of people, and tells us we should too. I’m a big fan. When people come to bible college, it’s usually coupled up with some motivation for a life shift. A change up in how they live, out of a yearning for something different or something more in their life. Unless, of course, they’re just looking for soe fancy new words to throw in their vernacular.

So they start forgiving people like crazy. Family members, ex friends, ex boyfriends or girls friends, people who’ve done any kind of wrong- forgiven. Awesome.

But, as history tells us, the bible college students neve halts where any normal person would halt. They proceed forward. Who else do they forgive?

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159 | Ditching Your Twitter

Some of you may remember back far enough in 6MOB history (or ‘herstory’ for you ladies) to the throwing out of TVs.  Drastic? Yes. But nonetheless, every bible college students loves a good melodramatic moment. But what happens if you’ve already gotten rid of your TV? What’s next to ditch?

Well, we all know social networks are from the devil. Unless of course you can figure out how to sue them for your ministry. Then, they’re ok. But for the bible college student looking for something to jump up and down on, twitter is the perfect candidate.

Once they’ve decided twitter is now an unacceptable avenue for invading people’s digital space, they pretty much follow a uniform break up process:

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Episode 18 | The Welcome Back Episode

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158 | Multitasking in class

You may be thinking to your self: “Self, this is not unique to a bible college student! What is Albert thinking? Does he even know what real students do in class? This Albert, so out of touch with me and my community! Who let this knucklehead right such a daring blog? Who’s watching him? Someone put a muzzle on that hooligan.”

I don’t blame you.

But let me explain. You see, while the average college student may multitask with other homework, facebook or sleep to keep the lecture lively, the bible college student may approach this a little bit differently.

The bible college student will multitask with things more holy than thou. The regular things just will not due. They take it to the next level. What next level? I’m glad you asked.

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157 | Hooking Up At Camp

A couple of weeks ago, I went to camp. College camp. Like High School camp for college students. It’s kind of incredible. I come out of working in youth ministry, so I have a special passion for camps and, I think, a unique view of camps.

One of the very special moments at camp is finding the love of your life. There’s something about looking across the cafeteria, eating your slightly burned lasagna with the smell of your not showering for three days and seeing someone with light shining down on their head. They are the one. And you’ve found them. At camp.

Where do you go from here? Make your move? Slide over to the other side of the table and start up a conversation? Maybe. But, for the bible college student, this process may be slightly different.

Meeting someone at camp may be almost indistinguishable from the average Joe, but the next move is where the deviation begins. Hooking up at camp is oh so different then what people might assume. Never fear, I’ve done the research for you.

Here are the steps for the bible college camp hook up:

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156 | Disappearing Over the Summer

Contrary to popular belief, and the views expressed here around the 6MOB office, not everybody has stories of wonder and awe from their journey abroad. Not everybody is able to dig into the trenches of ministry and come back with tales of gut-wrenching fables.

Some people seem to just simply, disappear.

Where do they go? What do they do? Who are they with?

I bet all of these questions are just burning a whole through your mind. In fact, you may even recall that the 6MOB team disappeared for a little while, and suddenly, just appeared again.

Much like the elusive bible college students in the summer months, we decided a time of hiding was necessary. But we’re not here to talk about 6MOB and their wanderings, were here to talk about our bible college student.

So what happens when the bible college student disappears? What are they really doing? I have a couple of thoughts…

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A Look Back

Well folks, in honor of our return, I thought I’d give some of the newbies a peak at what we have all known and loved for some time. A best of, if you will. So here are a few of my favorite posts over the last couple of years:

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