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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Episode 146: “The Right to Happiness” with Crystal Kirgiss and Duffy Robbins
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: Crystal Kirgiss Duffy Robbins “We Have No Right To Happiness” –…
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Raising Kids for Holy Worldliness
What does it mean to raise our children well? Many of us assume that the best approach is to shield and protect our kids from a culture that has more than its fair share of negative and dangerous influences. We…
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Episode 143: “Apologetics in a Post-Truth World” with Graham Dennis and Stephen Nichols
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: Graham Dennis (blog from Veritas Academy) Veritas Academy Stephen Nichols Reformation…
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The Danger of Living by Feelings
Our kids are growing up in a feeling-oriented world. If you don’t feel something, it can’t be real. A few years ago I read Mother Teresa’s book, Come Be My Light. This collection of journal entries and letters indicates that…
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Episode 17 – “Biblically Navigating Culture” with Walt Mueller
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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Episode 16 – Heaven and Hell
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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