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Things Above Us’ Content Usage Guidelines

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What Things Above Us Content Can You Use? And How?

You are not only free but encouraged to share links to any of our content by email and social media, including quotations. We’ll love you for it! Just include a link to the post for any quote, please!

You are free to reference or quote up to 175 words of any of our text content in your own blog articles, presentations, documents, etc. as long as you honor the Content Attribution Policy below.

Unfortunately, we can’t let you republish in full any of our text-based content (blog articles) on the web. Why? Well, duplicate content is just bad for SEO, and we want as many people as possible to be exposed to good Bible teaching we expect to produce here.

You are not only free but encouraged to print posts or articles from Things Above Us for use in a small group or Sunday School! Please let us know if you do that it may encourage us. Again, be sure you honor the Content Attribution Policy below.

You cannot make money off of our content. We gave it to you for free, so you need to keep it free by passing it along.

You cannot claim our content as your original ideas (i.e. using our content and publishing it on a blog or site as your own). We love that you want to share it, but please just share the original link instead. Thank you!

Content Attribution Policy

Attribute Things Above Us (thingsabove.us) as the source.

Link to the original Things Above Us post you are referencing … if you repost our content on the web.

If you print a post or part of a post for use in Sunday school or a small group or other setting, please include the full link (URL) to the page on the printed material.

Thanks for the content love. We appreciate it!

**Adapted from HubSpot’s content usage guidelines, LOL.

George Alvarado

George Alvarado is an almost retired member of our Armed Forces (yes, he's older than he looks). He has a beautiful wife, a very tall son, and currently teaches at Pilgrim Bible Church in Washington. He is also an author, blogger, apologist, evangelist, and podcaster. He loves spending time with his family and friends, traveling, photography, and continuing his studies in linguistics and theology.

Garrett O’Hara

Garrett appears to have originated the term, but not the theology, "dispybapticalvinistic-expialidocious." He is a husband, a father of four children, a U.S. Navy veteran, and a semi-truck driver. He also holds a Th.M. in New Testament paid for mostly by the Post-9/11 GI Bill (don't tell Mikey Weinstein).

Allen Nelson IV

Allen S. Nelson IV is the pastor of Perryville Second Baptist Church in Perryville, Arkansas. He and his wife Stephanie have been married since 2006 and have 5 children. Besides enjoying time with his family, Allen loves teaching the Bible, reading good books, and time outdoors. He is the author of From Death to Life: How Salvation Works and Before The Throne: Reflections on God’s Holiness He is an avid Dallas Cowboys and Arkansas Razorbacks fan, which means he's always excited about 'next year.' You can follow him on twitter @cuatronelson.

Michael Coughlin

Michael Coughlin lives near Columbus, OH, and leads local outreaches to glorify our Lord and reach the lost with the gospel. Michael’s joys are spending time with his dear wife and children, programming computers, and studying and discussing God’s Word. He is a member of Covenant Bible Church.

Chuck Ivey

By God’s grace, Chuck Ivey grew up in a Christian home and came to know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior at a young age. He has been married to his wife Ashley for 20 years. They have seven high energy children by adoption (yes seven), also by God’s grace. Chuck works full time in local law enforcement as an investigator and chaplain. He serves as a deacon and teacher at Beech Haven Baptist Church in Athens, GA. Chuck is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary where he earned a Masters of Theological Studies. Coffee and books are involved. You can follow hi...

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