The Met High School Ministry: Recent Episodes
Zack Butterfield
Zack wraps up his final series tonight as we dig in to the secret of being content. We learn to remember that through all circumstances and any plot twist, we learn to be content knowing everything will be ok because God is with us through it all.
We continue the Plot Twist Series. Tonight we look at how to handle the frustration when people closest to you don't seem to understand you. When parents don't "get you", God still does.
We all encounter plot twists in our life stories. High Schoolers will at some point have unexpected difficulties and unplanned frustrations. But how do we handle these twists? It turns out Paul offers a lot of advice as we go through this series. We will discover that even though the plot may twist, it doesn't mean the story is over.
We wrap up our Stepping Up series as we look at Joshua face the walls of Jericho. We learn an essential truth: God knows what He is doing, so we need to keep walking. He already holds the victory for us. All we need to do when we step up, is be obedient to Him.
We continue looking at the life of Joshua. In this podcast, Joshua has to step up as the new leader after Moses' death. After telling God all the reasons why he felt unqualified, God gave him a pep talk for the ages. We will discover that when we face challenges and opportunities we should remember: Who God is matters more than who you are not.
High Schoolers face all kinds of challenges and opportunities. There are chances where they are called to a variety team or tryouts for a play, or face really tough exams. This is a time where they are called to Step Up. It turns out that God wants us to be the kind of people to step up to reach the potential He has for us in these moments. In this series we look at the life of Jonah and see how an ordinary guy stepped up to reach his extraordinary potential in incredible challenges. We will discover that we can do the same.
Tonight Zack discuss what boundaries we should have to keep dating fun and keep our relationships healthy. Not only do we find the Bible has physical boundaries we should follow, but there are other helpful ones as well.
Becoming someone is more important than finding someone. As Zack continues the dating series, we talk through the importance of looking for things within yourself that make you more dateable, namely the ability to love like Jesus loves.
Zack continues our dating series this week and gives teens 5 attributes to make sure you have so you are ready to date well.
Tonight, Zack kicks off a 6 week series on High School dating. What makes us datable material? What makes us dateable material to the RIGHT people? How can we approach our dating life to set up for success rather than regret? Listen in as we begin to tackle all these questions.
Special guest Kelsey Aslinger wraps up our Close series. This passionate college student gives her testimony and great message on picking what we pursue can give us the closeness to God we desire.
Tonight we dig deeper into what closeness to God looks like. Join in as Zack gives a closer look to the words of Jesus and also offers a question that can change your prayer life.
We all have close friends. But sometimes, those friends drift apart. Nothing bad happened, just lift happens. Sometimes it feels like God is not close to us. Life seems to happen and our relationship with him seems to drift. In this series we will talk about God's desire to be close to us. Tonight, we discover that God is always pulling us in His direction.
Tonight, Zack presents a written short story of two sisters with a broken relationship. With a baby on the way for one, the other weighs the significance of letting go of her bitterness before it's too late. Zack points to the lessons in this story as a parable to the hope we have in Jesus found in the Christmas message.
We end our Wired series exploring the idea of community. How important is it to connect in a community of people? How does that impact our connection with God? Can't we just be an island by ourselves and avoid conflicts altogether?
After a video introductory message, we learn in week 2 of Wired that "God loves you as you are." We explore what this means when we think about God and ourselves.
Tonight, we look at Jesus' interaction with a lost person. He is our greatest example of how we should feel about and talk with people in spiritual darkness.
Tonight, Zack talks about our enemies. Who are they and how do we treat them? After looking at how Jesus deals with his enemies, we discover that the answer to the question may be different than we expected.
Tonight, we have special guest Pastor Ken join us for a session of Q and A. No question is off limits. Listen in as Ken answers questions about life, the Bible and even himself.
Jesus tells us whatever we do for the least of these we do for him also? Who are the least? What should we be doing for them? Why is it so important to Jesus to do help them? In this series, Zack will talk through Jesus' interactions with the least and what that means for us. Tonight we look at how Jesus deals with the poor/sick.
Abortion is an issue that has been thrusted to the front of our conversations with the latest planned parenthood exposure videos. What does abortion mean for teenagers? What do they say to friends thinking about it? Listen in as Zack talks through this big issue.
Issues is a hot button word. It usually denotes a topic that is controversial involving people with strong opinions. In this series, we will talk about three different major issues teenagers are either facing or talking about. Tonight,we talk about homosexuality. What does the Bible say about it? What does the world say about it? How should Christians respond. Listen in as we answer these questions.
Tonight, Zack wraps up this series with this thought, God wants us to go from the average who takes to the awesome who gives. When we give of our money, time and talents for the Kingdom, we find the awesome life we were meant to live by following Jesus, the ultimate giver.
Faith is very personal, but also made to be very public. On average, many people miss the opportunity to share their faith. But God wants us to have the awesome experience of sharing it through our words, actions and even in our defeats. Listen in as Zack speaks more about this.
We are made by an awesome God who has Awesome plans for our lives! Sometimes, we miss out on the awesome and settle for average due to many different reasons. This series goes through area of our lives where we could change from being average to being awesome. Tonight, Zack walks through going from being a follower to being a leader for Christ.
We end our series with a really powerful worship experience. Tonight we look at the toughest little god to fight, the god of me. We dig into scripture and then take the time to examine what false gods could be in our life and give them up to the One True God.
Tonight we look at two false gods that captivate the hearts of high schoolers, and how to tackle them head on. The god of food and the god of sex.
Tonight we dig deeper into the gods that rule the hearts of teenagers. We look even deeper at the gods of entertainment such as sports, tv and phones.
Tonight, Jason Dildine gives our students the Biblical view on the importance and impact of worshiping God in our lives.
We start a new series tonight and it's all about idols. These are the gods that are in competition with the True God for our hearts. Join us as we begin tackling this big issue and start addressing the idols teenagers face.
Ashley and Ashley from Choices Pregnancy center talk to us about the choices we have when we or our friends face an unplanned pregnancy
When Jesus and his disciples found themselves in the middle of a town that worshiped everything but God, he asked His disciples the pivotal question, who did they think he was. Peter, speaking up first, declared his fait in Christ as God's son. Life will have moments where student's are surrounded by people who have their different God's in place as well. This message challenges them to speak up when others are silent.
Life is filled with moments to shine, rise above and even leave a legacy. This was the case for Peter's life as well. In this new series we will follow 4 key moments Peter was given to leave a legacy for Christ's glory instead of his own. This week we will look at his moment, and our moment to be bold when others are afraid.