Cheer Them On! – A Youth Min Metaphor
Last Monday I drove down to Philadelphia to meet three friends who were part of my own high school youth group experience back in the early 1970s. While we’ve stayed in touch over the years, we last year began what…
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Youth Min & Culture Cohort: Come Learn With Us!
We’re starting something new for youth workers. . . and we’re inviting you to join us! Over the years it’s been my great joy to get into the undergrad and graduate classroom on hundreds of occasions, teaching youth workers how…
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A Back-To-School Prayer For Our Kids
School is starting. This year, some of our kids are heading to a building. Others are going to school online. Still others are being home-schooled out of necessity or by choice. I love looking at all the first-day-of-school pictures that…
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Ancient Words Of Blessing
How can we bless our children, our families, our youth groups, and the larger body of Christ as we assemble together? I was challenged to consider the ancient practice of blessing as I was reading through the account of Solomon’s…
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What Can We Learn From Detransitioners?
Things were once the way they were supposed to be. Things are not now the way they are supposed to be. One day, all things will be restored to the way they are supposed to be. . . and that,…
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Opening Ceremony Thoughts. . .
Last week, the 2024 Olympiad opened in Paris. As a kid and young adult, I watched almost every Olympic event that was covered on TV. At the time, it was network TV functioning in a world without Cable, Internet streaming,…
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A Short Word For Youth Workers. . . And All Of Us, Really
Let’s be honest with each other for a moment. There’s no denying the fact that we live in a cultural moment where the course of this world is pouring gasoline on the fire that burns in all of us. .…
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A Physician’s Chat On Transgender
Imagine having to grow up in today’s world as your body goes through that very natural and God-ordained transformation from being that of child, to being that of an adult. Puberty has become so complex because the questions “What’s happening…
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Transitioning and Truth
The news Lia Thomas received last week was not what Lia Thomas wanted. You might know Thomas as the news-worthy male college swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania who became the first openly transgender college athlete to win a Division…
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Teaching God’s Design For Sex and Gender: Truths #6 to #10
Conversations about sex and gender are front and center this month. Consequently, our children and teens. . . and even ourselves. . . are swimming in a directive cultural soup that maps out what to believe about sex and gender, along…
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Teaching God’s Design For Sex & Gender: Truths #3, #4, #5
Conversations about sex and gender are front and center this month. Consequently, our children and teens. . . and even ourselves. . . are swimming in a directive cultural soup that maps out what to believe about sex and gender, along with…
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TEACHING GOD’S DESIGN FOR SEX AND GENDER: TRUTH #2
Conversations about sex and gender are front and center in today’s world. Consequently, our children and teens. . . and even ourselves. . . are swimming in a directive cultural soup that maps out what to believe about sex and gender, along…
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