Read With Us! An Invitation To Spiritual Growth. . .
“What are you reading?” That’s a question I love to ask as I’m always looking for books that might enhance my own spiritual walk and/or my knowledge of faith and culture. Sometimes, I’m just looking to read for enjoyment or…
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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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Youth Ministry’s Transgender Moment. . . Some Helps. . .
As the school year gets started and we begin another season of youth ministry, the kids will be coming back. And they will be bringing with them, more than ever before, a host of unfolding beliefs and behaviors on sexuality…
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Counter-Cultural Guidance As You Head Off To Worship Today. . .
Thought for today as you head off to worship. . . whether you are listening, teaching, or preaching. . . “If leaders and teachers are just ‘stewards of God’s mysteries,’ then there’s no such thing as a ‘great Bible teacher’…
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Is Love A Feeling Or A Decision?
My teenage self couldn’t grasp or even imagine what my Dad told me over and over again. At the time, my attraction to the opposite sex was marked by overwhelming feelings. My dad, in the spirit of “ruining everything” 😉 made…
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Lewis on Marriage and Sexuality. . .
“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ’s words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism – for that is what the words ‘one flesh’ would be in modern English. . . The…
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New Forms Of Body Dysmorphia and Disordered Eating. . .
Perhaps the best way for me to state it is like this: If my grandmothers were ugly, they didn’t know it. I know that the statement sounds a bit crude and harsh, but I don’t remember either of them being…
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Wisdom Or Foolishness? . . . Reflections On A Condo Collapse. . .
It’s been just a couple days over a month since the Champlain Condo that sat beachside in Surfside, Florida crumbled to the ground in just a matter of seconds. When I heard and then saw the news early on the…
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Youth Sports. . . Fostering Or Limiting Spiritual Growth? . . .
When I read the Bible, I sometimes find myself shaking my head in disbelief as I ponder stories that reveal the absolute stupidity of God’s people. For example, this morning I was reading in the Old Testament book of Judges…
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A Short Word on Kids and Transgender. . .
God’s ordained gender binary. . . His good and grand creational design. . . continues to be challenged. It’s a very sensitive and important issue that involves real human beings. . . all of them divine-image bearers full of value,…
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Teaching Kids To Navigate Culture. . . A New Resource From CPYU. . .
It’s the shortest book I’ve ever written, but perhaps the most important. Youth workers and parents alike realize that the cultural narrative which shapes kids’ understanding of what to believe and how to live is pervasive, attractive, convincing, and compelling.…
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Is Olivia Rodrigo’s Influence “good 4 u”? . . .
I don’t think I can remember anything like this in the world of popular music. Olivia Rodrigo, an 18-year-old actress, singer, and songwriter pre-released her first single off her debut album back in January. . . just a little over…
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