Do Our Kids Want to Learn about Jesus?
Our friends at the Barna Institute have released a new report on members of Gen Z and spirituality that is titled “The Open Generation”. There’s some encouraging news for those who love and lead kids regarding their interest in Christianity.…
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Training up Fools for Christ
Those of us who embraced the Christian faith during our childhood and teenage years have memories of how hard it was to live faithful lives in a midst of a culture that encouraged us to do otherwise. Much of our…
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Living Christianly in Today’s World
What should we be teaching our kids about what it means to live as a Christian in today’s world? Can they just live as they please, following the course of this world while believing if they raised their hand or…
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Parent Prompt: Modesty
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. When the topic of modesty comes up, most people only see it through the lens of…
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Episode 167: “Examining Modern Lies” with Alisa Childers
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: Alisa Childers Alisa Childers Podcast Alisa Childers Podcast on YouTube Unshaken…
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Easter Literacy
It’s been over a decade since The Barna Research Group released a list of notable trends in the church, including one alarming trend that we must think about this week. Overall, the Barna Group reported that the Christian Church was…
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Leading Kids to Service and Sacrifice
I recently read about Gary Haugen’s experience as a Christian called to respond to the horrible genocide in Rawanda. Haugen says, “When you are standing in a mass grave in Rawanda, the question that came to my mind was not…
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What Makes Us Great?
As a Christian parent, what is your greatest desire for your children? I’m afraid that all-too-often, we allow our desires for our children to be shaped by the ideals of the kingdom of this world, rather than by the ideals…
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Teaching Kids to Ignore the Rules
One of the most quoted bible verses about parenting is found in Proverbs 22:6. It says, “train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Our greatest responsibility…
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The Danger of Vainglory
The Westminster Shorter Catechism asks this question: “What is the chief end of man?” The answer: “To glorify God and enjoy Him forever!” The Gospel is about God in His mercy and grace doing for us what we could not…
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