Digital Body Checking
One of the latest social media trends on Tik Tok, Instagram and other platforms is the posting of photos by young women showing their abs and protruding hip bones. These posts are often times accompanied with the hashtag body checking,…
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When Do Our Kids Feel Loved
It’s been my experience that research findings often confirm what we’ve known to be true through observation, intuition, and common sense. That’s certainly the case with a new study entitled “When Do Adolescents Feel Loved?” that’s been published in the…
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The Risks of Embracing God’s Sex and Gender Standards
Since this is Pride month, I’d like to spend this week sharing some words of wisdom from HarvestUSA’s John Freeman, on how to remain faithful when others embrace lgbtq+ theology. John tells us to expect misunderstanding and persecution. Our culture’s…
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Helping Kids with Body Image
In today’s appearance-oriented world, chances are good that your kids won’t get the right body-image perspective anywhere but from you. Of course, gaining the right perspective begins by showering your kids with love and acceptance that isn’t conditional on what…
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Tempering Appearance Pressure
Our children need parents who will openly explain and discuss what is happening to their bodies. Most of these changes occur during the middle school years, when group acceptance is of the utmost importance and when peers – because of…
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Bullying and Youth Group
With bullying being an issue for so many kids in today’s world, we need to be sure that our churches are building a youth ministry setting that’s safe. As a step towards making this a reality, counselor Julie Lowe offers…
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Performative Disapproving
One of the best ways to track cultural changes is to look at the new words that make their way into the dictionary each and every year. Back in January, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary added a two-word phrase that is worth…
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When Do Kids Feel Loved
It’s been my experience that research findings often-times confirm what we’ve known to be true through observation, intuition, and just good-old common sense. That’s certainly the case with a new study entitled “When Do Adolescents Feel Loved?” that’s been published…
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Following Jesus
What is our purpose in life? We discover our true purpose and identity when we see ourselves as individuals made in the image of God for a relationship with God. The way into that relationship with God is through following…
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The Like Button and Depression
If you’ve watched the compelling and eye-opening Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, you are familiar with Justin Rosenstein. He is one of the many brilliant young tech developers who appear in the film to trumpet the personal and societal dangers…
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