• Jason Pauli lives in Erie, PA with his wife, 3 sons, and baby girl. He's a pastor at Grace Church where he spends a lot of time with teenagers.

Ten Days Of Why The 80s Rock And The Decade You Grew Up In Stinks – Days Six & Seven

You know the weird thing? Old Vanilla Ice used to cut little slashes in his eyebrows. I’ve seen kids doing it today. They have no idea why everyone my age is looking at them  funny.
I’ll be impressed if you can tell me his real name without googling

Michael Jackson took the music [...]

Ten Days Of Why The 80s Rock And The Decade You Grew Up In Stinks – Day Five

The only groups that could do something like this today and get the reaction U2 gets here? The Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana… It’s why your decade stinks and the 80s rock!

Ten Days Of Why The 80s Rock And The Decade You Grew Up In Stinks – Day Four

One of those videos that “changed everything”… Aerosmith was reborn, rap entered the mainstream, and we all took the laces out of our Adidas’, bought huge gold chain necklaces, and started wearing Kangol hats.
Aerosmith and Run D.M.C. broke all the rules and took a huge chance here.

Ten Days Of Why The 80s Rock And The Decade You Grew Up In Stinks – Day Three

Ah the video that made Courtney Cox famous. Everyone thinks of “Friends” when they think of Courtney… I think of “The Boss”.
Oh and that Ace Ventura movie she was in. And those creepy commercials for “Dirt”.

Ten Days Of Why The 80s Rock & The Decade You Grew Up In Stinks – Day Two

I couldn’t believe I heard this song in The Watchmen. I mean I’m glad it was in there… I just couldn’t believe it. This song was released in German and English here in the States. The German version was always higher on the charts – I never, ever understood that.
I played air synthesizer to this [...]

Ten Days Of Why The 80s Rock & The Decade You Grew Up In Stinks – Day One

Reason #1: Twisted Sister – Dee Snider looked like a football player in drag

My #1 way to avoid “moral failure”

I found several ways to avoid moral failure from some high profile ministry fellas at Monday Morning Insight today. In church world, 90% of the time, ”moral failure” means you’ve committed adultery. For 9% of the time it means you were doing it in your brain in a public way like going to a strip club, consuming porn, [...]

Disaster Preparedness – Then and Now

I took Logan into school late this morning after a doctor’s appointment to try to discover why he has such a sexy, raspy voice.
I walked in to see the hallways lined with kids on their knees bent over with their heads down. My first thought was that it was a nuclear bomb drill. Turns out [...]