Parent Prompt: Youth Sports & Church Participation
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Download the Parent Prompt here. By: Jason Engle, CPYU Research Fellow and Teaching Pastor at Westwood…
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Parent Prompt: The Doctrine of Justification
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Download the Parent Prompt here. By: Tim McAlpine, CPYU Research Fellow and Director of Faith Formation…
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Parent Prompt: Gaming – The Entertainment of Our Hearts
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Download the Parent Prompt here. By: Josiah Rios, CPYU Research Fellow and Associate Pastor of Middle…
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Trend Alert: K-Pop Demon Hunters & Inner Battles
By: Julie Lowe Download the full trend alert here. INTRO The world of K-Pop is often dazzling with choreographed precision, catchy beats, and polished images. Yet beneath the polished exterior, themes go deeper—exploring refrains of darkness, inner battles, and…
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3(D) Review: “Wood” by Taylor Swift
Download the full 3(D) Review here. Background/summary: Taylor Swift, pop star and darling of kids young and old alike, released her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, on October 3rd, 2025. The upbeat 12-track album is said…
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3(D) Review: “APT.” by Rosé & Bruno Mars
Released in October of 2024, this catchy pop-punk duet from 28-year-old Korean K-pop star, Rosé, and Grammy-winning singer Bruno Mars, won “Song of the Year” at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. This lead single from Rose’s debut studio…
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Parent Prompt: Fast Fashion
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. In today’s digital world, teenagers are being bombarded by a constant stream of marketing, especially in…
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Spiritual Nurture: How Do I Discern God’s Will?
When I was in high school, I can remember being asked the question over and over again: “What are you going to do with your life?” It may have been in the form of “what’s your plan for after high…
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Spiritual Nurture: Our Kids and Decision-Making Discernment
The cultural trend is what I call “too much time spent living life in the moment.” This is “Carpe Diem!” and “YOLO” taken to an extreme. While followers of Jesus are called to make the most of every moment, we…
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Spiritual Nurture: Entrusting Your Children to God
How can we entrust our children to Him in a contemporary world full of distractions that so easily leads both children and parents away from the faithful pursuit of the chief end of “glorifying God and enjoying Him forever?” The…
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Spiritual Nurture: Who’s In Charge?
Our kids need parents who will bring them up in the nurture and discipline of the Lord. Gentle, non-judgmental parenting is not good parenting. Have you read Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6? We are to raise them in the nurture…
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Parent Prompt: Teen Loneliness & Smartphone Use
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. One of the great promises of the digital revolution was deeper connection—tools that would give us…
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