Travis Deans

Northeast Regional Coordinator with National Network of Youth Ministries ( and campus ministry trainer (

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

Free youth ministry book!
I wrote a free PDF book that I’d love to share. It’s only 24 pages so it’s easy to download and easy to print. It’s called the Youth Ministry Toolbox and if you go to https://t.co/1YqBqXOtyL you can request a free copy.

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

@TheBuccosFan @Kane410 @nnym Thanks so much Scott! It was great to see you guys!

[✞ Richard ✞ @Richard_gh1]

"My home is in heaven. I’m just traveling through this world."

- Billy Graham

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

@MattSmethurst @dandarling That’s some crazy foresight there!

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

This is so good!

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

Is there any hope that gas prices can go down soon?

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

Haha! What a great statement!

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

Bingo 🎯

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

Wow!

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

The Bible:

· 0 errors
· 66 books
· 40+ authors
· 0 contradictions
· 3 different languages
· 3 different continents
· 63K+ cross-references
· written over 1500 years
· all telling the same story

This is how we know it’s God-inspired and not man-made.

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

This is awesome! Thankful for people like this!

[Brandon Tatum @TheOfficerTatum]

🚨 A Chattanooga cop rescues a mother and two children from a burning apartment and the Ring doorbell footage is incredible.

Officer Eli Rogers arrived to find flames blocking the front door and a family trapped inside. He didn't wait.
He went in, got them out, and made sure everyone survived.

"I tried to thank him… That's my whole world. That's my daughter." — Rachel Blaylock

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

Fake Christianity: God loves me, so I can do what I want.

Real Christianity: God loves me, so I do what he says.

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

There is a Creator!

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

Vision is an absolute marvel of Divine Engineering.

It requires a minimum of 3 systems working together from the start, or we don't see.

1. Eyes to capture light & convert into signals
2. Pathways to transport the signal
3. A brain to process it

Evolution can't build it one step at a time, because there is no vision until all those systems exist and function together.

Compounding the complexity further, each of those 3 systems themselves require a minimum number of more complex subsystems to function properly.

For instance, all eyes require opsin proteins.

Opsin is a highly complex protein that holds a special light-sensitive molecule called retinal; when a single photon hits the retinal, it instantly flips shape, triggering the opsin to change its 3D shape and trigger a precise cascade which converts the light into an electrical signal to be sent to the brain where it can be understood as vision.

Opsin alone, is useless. It needs the retinal molecule plus the full cascade, or it does nothing.

This is the case with ALL vision systems, confirmed over and over again the lab.

No partially formed system produces any vision, or any other function for that matter.

Many uninformed Evolutionists attempt to argue that we see different levels of complexity in vision systems, which they say is evidence that vision evolved gradually from simpler systems.

But the evolutionary scientists themselves refute this.

Even the very simplest possible system of vision - the infamous "light sensitive cell" - still relies on a similar highly complex, interconnected network of proteins and other molecules.

Mainstream evolutionary science even teaches that vision systems evolved independently, from scratch, at least 40 different times.

The reason is because many vision systems are so different, operating with such unique parts, that one simply could not have evolved from another.

The fossil record itself refutes the concept of step by step construction of vision systems.

Complex eyes appear early in the fossil record, fully formed & functional.

There is no increasing complexity in the fossil record - it's a complete contradiction of evolutionary predictions.

The vision system has all the Hallmark evidence of design.

A complex, interconnected web of information processing systems with incomprehensibly precise timing & coordination between them all to produce a highly specialized function.

Nature does not, and cannot, produce such a system, not with all the time and resources in the entire universe.

Everything you see is a testament to the Power of our Creator.

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

@richardaross @SWBTS Very cool!

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

@AdamDurso @NickyCruzOrg His story has been a great inspiration to me and millions of others! That is amazing. I’ve met Erik Estrada who played him in the movie but I’d love to meet Nicky someday.

[Wendell @wendelltalks]

Why Christianity Is the Only Faith That Actually Solves the Problem of Evil Instead of Explaining It Away.

The problem of evil is the single greatest objection people raise against God.
It goes like this. “If God is all powerful and all good, why is there so much suffering in the world?

It’s a fair question. Pain is real. Cancer, war, betrayal, abuse, natural disasters, the list is long and heavy.

Every honest person has felt the weight of it.
And every worldview has to answer it.

Most of them don’t.
Eastern religions often say evil is an illusion, something to rise above through enlightenment.

Islam says it’s all part of Allah’s will, and you simply submit.

Atheism says evil is just a social construct or the result of blind evolution, there’s no ultimate standard, so there’s no ultimate problem.

New Age spirituality tells you to manifest your way out of it.

None of them actually solve it. They either deny it, blame God for it, or tell you to ignore it.

Christianity alone does something radical.

Jesus didn’t stand far off and explain suffering from a distance. He stepped into it.

He took on real flesh, felt real pain, and allowed the full weight of evil, every sin, every injustice, every tear, to fall on Him at the cross.

The innocent One became the guilty. The holy One took the wrath. He didn’t dodge the problem of evil. He absorbed it.

Then He rose.
That’s not an explanation.
That’s a solution.

Christianity doesn’t pretend suffering doesn’t exist. It doesn’t blame God for it. It doesn’t call it an illusion.

It says the King entered the brokenness, defeated death, and promised that one day He will wipe every tear away and make all things new.

Until then, He walks with us through it, not as a distant observer, but as the One who has scars in His hands and feet.

This is what real faith looks like.

Not the version that offers cheap answers or empty platitudes when the pain hits.

The version that looks evil in the eye, points to the cross, and says, the King already defeated it, and He will finish what He started.

To every person wrestling with the problem of evil right now, whether it’s in your own life or in the world around you, hear this clearly.

The Christian story is the only one that doesn’t run from your pain.
It enters it.
It redeems it.
And one day, it will end it forever.

All glory to the King who didn’t explain evil away, He conquered it with His own blood.

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

I’m giving away this book for free! Just visit https://t.co/1YqBqXOtyL to request a free PDF copy!

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

@richardaross So good! I don’t think youth ministry is an either or situation, but rather an all of the above ministry!

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

Jesus, help our brothers and sisters in Christ in this part of the world!

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

It is highly dangerous to be a Christian today in North Korea. 

In May of 2023, an entire family, including a two-year-old child, was condemned to life imprisonment for the crime of possessing a Bible. 

That same month, a man already incarcerated in a detention camp was beaten nearly to death for the crime of quietly praying. 

Please pray for our Christian brothers and sisters in North Korea, and pray that the light of religious liberty may reach even the darkest corners of our world.

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

YES!!!

[Shane Pruitt @shane_pruitt78]

Other local Bible-believing churches are not your competition or rivals. They are your family and teammates.

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

@MrT Thank you Mr. T - I love your encouraging words!

[Travis Deans @tdeans]

So funny!!!

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

If Jesus's Resurrection Were a Hoax

Prolly my favorite sketch we ever did at @TheBabylonBee

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

If Jesus's Resurrection Were a Hoax

Prolly my favorite sketch we ever did at @TheBabylonBee