Spiritual Nurture: Our Kids and Decision-Making Discernment
The cultural trend is what I call “too much time spent living life in the moment.” This is “Carpe Diem!” and “YOLO” taken to an extreme. While followers of Jesus are called to make the most of every moment, we…
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A Sexualized Society
I’m on the couch, watching a movie with three of my grandsons, ages seven, ten, and eleven. Each one of these boys is inching closer to puberty, which means living in a body that is able by God’s design to…
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Mother’s Day Truth 4
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: Any kid, anywhere, anytime. Sadly, there’s an assumption flying around that Christian kids…
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Kids and Self-Worship
Biola University theology professor Thaddeus J. Williams has written a great book on living in today’s culture titled, “Don’t Follow Your Heart: Boldly Breaking The Ten Commandments of Self-Worship.” Williams enlightens readers, young and old, on how to identify the…
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Put Down the Phones
With loneliness off the charts for kids in today’s world, we can reasonably conclude that more time looking at screens means less time with others. In her new book “the extinction of experience: being human in a disembodied world”, Christine…
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Teaching Discernment
As followers of Jesus Christ, we are called to develop the skill of knowing, understanding, and applying the truths of God’s Word to all of life, so that we might distinguish truth from error, wisdom from foolishness, and right from…
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Trends in Youth Ministry (Walt Mueller on the Youth Pastor Theologian Podcast)
Walt Mueller joins the “Youth Pastor Theologian Podcast”, episode 92, to discuss what’s happening in the youth ministry world today and how we got here. Listen to the podcast here.
Episode 197: “Building Meaningful Connections Across Generations” with Micah Marshall
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Micah MarshallRefuge Youth NetworkFree Resources from Refuge Youth Network CPYU’s Simple Seven (Super Bowl Edition)What happened…
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Helping Parents Understand Today’s Youth Culture – The Longer Haul in Youth Minstry Podcast
Walt Mueller is a guest on The Longer Haul in Youth Ministry Podcast. Listen here.
Family TableTalk – Conversation 105
The Filling and Spilling of Your Mind Download Conversation 105 here. Check back regularly for new conversations.