Love Your Neighbor
One of the accusations oftentimes made against Christians is that we are legalistic, judgmental, intolerant, and hateful. Truth be told, there are many times when we fail to be Christlike in our interactions with non-believers, and these criticisms are justified.…
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Episode 158: “Does Social Media Use Bring Out The Fruit of the Spirit?” with Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra SocialSanityBook.com The Gospel Coalition Thorns & Thistles –…
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What Story Will Your Kids Live
Parents, are you aware that each and every minute of every day your kids are choosing to live into some kind of story? In today’s world, the most pervasive and compelling story our kids choose to follow is that story…
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Episode 36 – Teaching the Bible: 1 John
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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A Little League Lesson
I’m guessing that by now you’ve already seen the viral video of the moving sequence of events that took place last month in a Little League baseball game after a 12-year-old player was hit in the head by a pitch…
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Living in Light of Eternity
From time to time I share with you some of the cultural lies our children and teens are being encouraged to believe. One such lie is this: Life in this world is more important than the afterlife. Dr. Michael Kruger…
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Right Doctrine
In his instructions to his understudy Timothy, the apostle Paul says this: Keep a watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. These words remind us…
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How Suffering Impacts Kids
All this week we’re looking at five lessons from the persecuted church regarding how God uses problems and persecutions for our good and His glory. These are lessons that we must teach our kids as they grow up in a…
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Teaching Kids to Work to God’s Glory
What will the kids you know and love see as the end or purpose of work? Why will they choose to pursue the job and career path they choose to pursue? Will their goals be economic in ways that make…
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Your Kids Have Been Made for a Relationship with God
As we prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day, I thought it would be good to spend our week looking at some helpful parenting truths. Today’s truth is this: Our teenagers were made to be in a relationship with God. Because our…
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Isolation vs Community
The English writer John Donne is perhaps most famous for writing the words, “No man is an island.” Donne was communicating the fact that in order to thrive, we must depend on others and the gift of community. The Bible…
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Is Religion a Bad Thing?
One of the growing trends in the church has been an aversion to describing Christianity as a religion. Today, many Christians see the word religion as something harmful. The word is frowned upon as it’s believed it represents rituals, dogmas,…
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