Parents. . . Take 5 Minutes To Learn About Your Kids And Pornography. . .
You can’t effectively address a danger until you see and understand the danger. For the follower of Jesus Christ, Paul’s words in I Corinthians 6:18 offer a warning about the great danger of “sexual immorality”, along with a very blunt…
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Will We Speak Up For The Transgender Kid? . . .
What does it look like to respond with love to our kids who say they are embracing an LGBTQ+ lifestyle? What does it look like to lead them well? We can start by seeing them as God sees them. .…
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“What The Heck Is Easter?”. . . Four Life-Changing Words. . . .
The fallout from our culture’s growing reality of biblical illiteracy hit me hard a couple of years ago when the day after Easter my daughter-in-law, an athletic trainer at a large suburban high school, shared with me a conversation she…
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I Am Free. . . Thank You Jesus. . .
Good Friday. . . thank you Jesus. As I grapple with the glorious and almost incomprehensible meaning of today, I will spend time looking at this David Arms painting that’s in our house. Arms writes this about his painting “Free”: The…
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Will Smith, Hillsong, Branding. . . and Me. . .
Brand. While it’s one of the most-used words in today’s lexicon, I’m not sure we should like how it’s being used. Or maybe, we should aim to use it properly. The term brand as it’s most-used these days originated in the world…
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Youthworkers. . . A Way To Help Parents Teach Easter. . .
The fallout from our culture’s growing reality of biblical illiteracy hit me hard a couple of years ago when the day after Easter my daughter-in-law, an athletic trainer at a large suburban high school, shared with me a conversation she…
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Easter Week, Trauma, and the Cross. . .
We’re almost there. Easter week. . . a week that’s gotten better as I’ve gotten older. In fact, as I’ve gotten older life has gotten worse in many respects, thus leading to new experiences of the joy of Holy Week…
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“You’re Not The Boss Of Me”. . . Authority In Today’s World. . .
I’ve long since forgotten what occasioned the fight between two neighborhood boys that required my intervention. Since the scuffle between these two fourth graders was happening in my backyard and I saw it unfolding, I needed to step in. When…
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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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