The Cru High Show: Recent Episodes
Jake Loftis
A program dedicated to transforming teenagers into true followers of Christ who love God and love others.
Daniel Mitchell and Ben Leong talk about the question, "How is Jesus Relevant to Pop Culture?" Culture is all around us and in us, and Jesus calls His followers to live differently than those who do not follow Jesus. How? Check out the episode.
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
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Daniel Mitchell and Ben Leong talk about the question, "How is Jesus Relevant to my identity?" Identity is a huge issue for all of us, and we believe that Jesus offers stability and hope that no one else can. This is part three of a series about how Jesus is relevant to all areas of your life.
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Daniel Mitchell and Ben Leong talk about the question, "How is Jesus Relevant to my relationships?" This is part two of a series about how Jesus is relevant to all areas of your life.
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Daniel Mitchell and Ben Leong talk about the question, "How is Jesus to our lives today?" This is the first in a series of how Jesus is relevant to different parts of our lives.
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Daniel Mitchell and Blake Wilberger talk about Blake's struggles over the last year and a half and how he has learned what matters in life.
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
Daniel and Jake talk with Joel Parker, a college student involved with Cru at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, about his experience doing a gap year after high school.
Cru Gap Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19zJOeOa9l8&ab_channel=Cru-HighSchool
Cru's Gap Year Program: www.cru.org/communities/hs/missions/gap-year
The School Joel went to: www.cornerstonebibleinstitute.com
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
On today's episode, Daniel and Jake talk with Emily Mitchell, Daniel's wife, about how to make good choices and be redeemed from bad ones.
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Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
On today's episode, Daniel and Jake talk about how to respond to God after you just blew it. Can we really trust that God will welcome us back?
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
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The Cru High Show is a program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Today, Jean Johnston joins Jake on the show to talk about the rewards and the dangers of deconstructing faith, especially in the transition from high school to college. Doubting your faith or feeling disillusioned with church are common experiences for Christians. So how do we work through this without leaving our faith behind? How can we help others process their doubts?
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Contact Jean: @schmean_j
Links from Jean:
https://www.russellmoore.com/2021/04/15/losing-our-religion/
https://leestrobel.com/
http://www.nabeelqureshi.com/seeking-allah-finding-jesus
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
The Cru High Show is a program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
On today's episode, Daniel and Jake talk with Andy Peterson, a pastor and former Cru Staff, about how to "plant seeds" in the people around you, so that one day you can harvest them. Jesus talked this way, so it must be important!
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
On today's episode, Jake Loftis and Daniel Mitchell talk with Lizz Abrahams, a GriefShare facilitator, about how to grieve and help those who are grieving. This is a super hard topic, but worth wrestling with!
Psalm 56:8 NLT "You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
On today's episode, Daniel and Jake talk with Larissa Wach, a college ministry director with Salt Company in Fort Collins, CO, about how to use your relationship status to glorify God.
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Book Resource: 7 Myths About Singleness by Sam Allberry
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Music by Derek Penner @derekpenner_music
On today's episode, Daniel and Jake talk about if becoming a Christian makes you a nicer, kinder, better person in the world. We attempt to answer the question, why are so many Christians jerks?
James 1:22-24 "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like."
Galatians 5:22-26 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
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On today's episode, Daniel and Emily Mitchell talk with Trinity, a high schooler, about how you can be a student leader right where you are.
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
The Cru High Show is a program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
https://www.firstlightcounselingcenter.com/
If you have questions for Cole, you can contact him directly:
cole@firstlightcounselingcenter.com
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Website: https://www.cru.org/highschool
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/highschool
You may also want to watch this video from Bible Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmvyrLXoQio
How can the Old Testament be helpful? Isn't it just really old and dated? Clay Wakefield joins Jake and Daniel to talk about how the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) still not just relevant but important. It helps us understand essential truths and how we can better reach our friends at school.
It's easy to live our lives with our own set of goals and go after comfort or achievements. The problem is that God seems to be doing something MUCH bigger in the world! He invites us to be part of something way beyond ourselves, but what is it that he wants us to do? How do we do that?
Trying to find out who you are is difficult. Sometimes it will take you places you never thought you'd go.
Daniel and Jake sit down with Brent to talk about his journey to finding out who he is, and ultimately, who Jesus really is.
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It's important to stand for what you believe, but people don't change just because you disagree with them.
How do we persuasively disagree?
Jake interviews Pastor Nicholas Bank to discuss how to handle conflicts when people disagree with you, especially over issues of your faith.
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Website: https://www.cru.org/highschool
Is it worth it to follow Jesus in college? Won't I miss out on things?
Polly Latshaw joins us on the show tonight to talk about following Jesus in college. Polly works as a college admissions counselor and also works part-time for Cru.
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Website: https://www.cru.org/highschool
On today's video, Jake Loftis and Daniel Mitchell talk about how to share the gospel and start spiritual conversations with your friends at school.
Check out the GodTools, Jesus Film, and Perspectives apps on your phone!
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Website: https://www.cru.org/highschool
On today's video, Jake Loftis and Daniel Mitchell answer your question about addictions and how to think about them Biblically.
Here are a few of the resources we mentioned!
https://thefreedomfight.org/30-day-challenge-sign-up/
https://fightthenewdrug.org/about/
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Special guest, Tyrone Tompkins, shares his thoughts on how Christians are to pursue justice and stand against injustice. But how do we do this in a Christlike and God-honoring way?
On today's episode, Jake and Daniel talk about God’s heart for justice.
Welcome to the Cru High Show, the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/highschool
Resources: https://www.cru.org/communities/hs/category/resources/
Link to 18-year-old Brandt Jean’s forgiveness: https://youtu.be/dJH4adVazl4
The Cru High Show is the program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
This week, Jake and Daniel take some of your questions:
1. Do faithful followers of other religions go to heaven?
2. What does the Bible say about sexuality and gender?
3. What Bible translations are the best?
4.Why does there have to be so much violence in the Old Testament?
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Website: https://www.cru.org/highschool
The Cru High Show is a program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
A lot of the content from this came from Mike Winger’s “Evidence for the Bible” series. Look it up!
The Cru High Show is a program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: https://www.cru.org/highschool
The Cru High Show is a program dedicated to transforming high schoolers into true followers of Christ. Through this podcast, we want to mobilize you to love God and love others. We know you have questions about reaching your community, and we believe that God gives direction and wisdom to those who ask.
Instagram: @cruomaha
Website: www.cru.org/highschool