Parents and Youth Workers. . . Is Love Love?
“Love is love.” You might be hard-pressed to find a more dangerous three-word combination floating around as a life-shaper (or life-mis-shaper) in today’s culture. It’s thrown around widely and accepted just as widely. . . typically without thought or critique.…
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Youthworkers. . . As You Minister To Students Today. . .
As so many of us continue read, study, ponder, and respond personally and in our ministries to contemporary trends that mis-shape and de-form us and our kids, turning us into idol factories. . . including expressive individualism, living intuitively, bowing…
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Shepherding Kids 101 For Parents and Youth Workers. . .
It’s been said that a good sermon will comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. That’s certainly what the Word of God does to us. That’s what happened for me on Sunday when I was recalibrated (afflicted!) by a sermon…
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The Latest On Media Use By Teens & Tweens: A Helpful Infographic. . .
How much time are our kids spending with their screens in non-school-related activities? Our friends at Common Sense Media have released the results of their most recent media use survey. Overall, media use grew faster in the last two years…
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Sports Parents. . . Who Will You Be? . . .
The sun is going down later. Spring is springing. Athletic fields are filled with kids gearing up for participation in a variety of spring sports. Sadly, when the games begin, some of the most discouraging activity will be taking place…
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Wanted: Mentors. . . Dead Or Alive. . .
It sounds a bit counter-intuitive, but the greatest leaders are focused on following. They exercise and develop wisdom when they seek out and learn from wise and experienced mentors. Sadly, in our day and age of chronological snobbery where we’ve…
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Youth Ministry and the Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. . .
Note: This is the week when Carl Trueman’s new book, “Strange New World”, is released. It’s the shortened version of his previous book, “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.” At Carl Trueman’s request, the folks at 9Marks asked…
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Bleacher Theology. . . Some Thoughts on Kids, Parents, and Sports. . .
This morning, I was sitting and looking at the pictures here in my basement hideout. Pictures of my kids. . . now all grown. I started rifling through some photos of them all on my computer, including shots of all…
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God’s Plan For Sex & Gender: 10 Teaching Points For Home and Church. . .
Our children and teens are being educated on matters of sex and gender by a current cultural narrative that engages in 24/7 messaging, even to children as young as pre-school age. This education – or more accurately mis-education – takes God’s good…
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A Prayer When Getting Dressed. . .
We do it everyday. We get dressed. Our children and teens do it as well. When they are little, we help our children get dressed. And something I read over the weekend issued a challenge to turn the simple, daily…
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Providence In A Time Of War . . . CPYU’s Free Tool For Teaching Your Kids. . .
What questions are your kids verbalizing and pondering as they hear about and process the war in Ukraine? How are they responding to the humanitarian crisis, the fighting, and the knowledge that these things are not just something that happens…
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Is The News Making Your Kids. . . And You. . . Afraid? . . .
Truth be told. . . the news of recent days has rattled me. It has rattled me for the people of the Ukraine and all others who are being touched in unimaginable ways by this conflict. It has rattled me…
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