Guiding Kids into Vocational Faithfulness
Parents, what will your children choose as a career? I remember wondering that about each of my four kids from the moment they were born. You have probably done the same. A new survey found that seventy-five percent of today’s…
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Youth Workers. . . What Are You Doing About These Nine Things? . . .
The data and anecdotes confirm what so many of us have suspected for a long, long time and now know. . . that our youth ministry efforts are not resulting in the kind of outcomes that we hope for. What’s…
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Snapchat’s New Parent Help Feature
Because we are facing the challenge of raising kids in a world increasingly filled with digital technology and social media apps, it’s important that parents focus on teaching their growing, vulnerable, and easily influenced children and teens how to navigate…
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Episode 34 – Teaching Passages at Different Paces
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Kyle Hoffsmith (website) Old North Church (Kyle’s church) Linda Oliver…
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Finding Identity in an AR World
I was recently chatting with some youth workers about the changes they are seeing in how their teenaged students form identity. They were lamenting the fact that kids are leaning less and less into God’s will and way for discovering…
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Episode 156: “Ministry to Parents” A Youth Worker Round Table Discussion
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. CPYU GIVE AWAY: Click here (Give Away Has Closed) to enter for a chance to win a Parenting Resource Packet – Bundle of…
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Online Predators
The Bible teaches us that we live in a fallen and broken world. Sin manifests itself everywhere and in every way. One of the most disturbing types of sin facilitated by today’s technology is online predatory behavior. While there’s conflicting…
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Raising Internet Zombies
“Papa. Are Zombies real?” That’s a question my young grandson asked me after seeing a TV commercial for a movie about these mythological undead corpses we’re told walk the earth. While I assured him that “No, Zombies are not real”,…
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Teen Smartphone Addiction
Ever since the smartphone became a standard accessory and even an appendage much like our arms and legs, experts have debated whether or not people can become addicted to their digital devices. The research evidence is quickly accumulating that says…
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Facing the Epidemic of Porn 1
“Today, there is an epidemic of pornography.” Those are the first seven words in Tim Chester’s very helpful book, “Closing the Window: Steps to Living Porn Free.” Chester says there are two factors behind the growth of our pornified culture.…
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Some Surprising Facts on Smartphone Use
Sometimes I think that just hearing and considering some of the statistics on our smartphone use and dependence will cause us to sit up, take notice, and peel back from our growing dependence on our electronic devices. Knowing these facts…
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Being Performative
In his play “As You Like It”, William Shakespeare has his character Jacques utter these now-famous words: “All the world’s a stage, and all men and women are merely players.” If those words were true when first written way back…
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