A Dangerous New Youth Culture Trend. . .
Recently, the FDA issued a warning to parents, teachers, health care professionals, and all others who care about the well-being of children and teens. It’s a warning about what’s become known as “The Benadryl Challenge”. Challenges between kids are nothing…
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Kids, Sports, and Christian Nurture. . .
Every time I pass it with an out-of-town friend in the car, I point them in its direction and watch their eyes fill with wonder and awe. Spooky Nook Sports sits just off the highway among farmers’ fields just a…
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Where Are We Headed? Freedom, Anarchy, or Repression?
I’m a bit uneasy these days. Are you? We are horribly divided in so many ways, and I’ve had a growing inkling for several months that on November 4th of this year, all hell is going to break loose. It…
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Why Am I Called A Christian? . . .
As you celebrate God’s good gift of Sabbath today, here is a question from the Heidelberg Catechism to ponder. . . Question 32. . . “But why are you called a Christian?” The Catechism provides an answer that reminds us…
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The Sex-Positive Movement and our Kids. . . Part 3
This week, I’ve been posting a three-part series on the Sex-Positive Movement, a trending and powerfully dangerous influence on all our kids. Today, Part 3, an overview of God’s grand and glorious design for sexuality and gender. Be sure to…
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The Sex-Positive Movement and Our Kids. . . Part 2
This week, I’m posting a three-part series on the Sex-Positive Movement, a trending and powerful influence on all of our kids. Today, Part 2, an overview of the core beliefs of the Sex-Positive Movement. What Cardi B and the culture-at-large…
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The Sex-Positive Movement and our Kids. . . Part 1
This week, I’m posting a three-part series on the Sex-Positive Movement, a trending and powerful influence on all of our kids. Today, Part 1. Almost thirty years have passed since an interviewer asked Madonna if she saw herself as “a…
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The TikTok Suicide Video: Guidance For Parents. . .
It was just two weeks ago, on Monday, August 31, that a 33-year-old Army veteran who had served in Iraq took his own life by firearm. . . all while livestreaming his death on Facebook. While we know little to…
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Why I Shocked My Dogs. . .
This morning I sat here thinking back over all the sad and sorry brokenness of the last six months. I was prompted to do so by receiving word that my friend Tim Russell’s memorial service is being held tonight. .…
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Jerry Falwell Jr., Becki Falwell, and Me. . .
“Everything is broken” sang Bob Dylan back in 1989. Has there ever been a song title that tells the honest-to-goodness truth in a more direct way than that? I don’t know. What I do know is that the older I get,…
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Cardi B, WAP, And Our Kids. . . Some Thoughts. . .
So the female rapper Cardi B has us all thinking. She’s got us all talking. And as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most-Influential-People of 2018 (labeled by Time in that list as a “pioneer”), her latest single release has landed…
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A Prayer For Kids At The Start Of The School Year. . .
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 rather than choice. I love looking at all the first-day-of-school pictures that…
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