Cultural Discernment

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Parenting Strategies for a Toxic Culture

Here at CPYU we are always telling parents that there are three essential elements to a healthy, biblically-based response to an alarming youth culture trend. First, when we realize that something is trending, we are to exercise a prophetic influence…
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Following the Bible or Culture

In today’s world, our kids are encouraged by the cultural narrative to live their lives at the level of their experiences and feelings. If a decision needs to be made or a belief is embraced, those decisions and beliefs should…
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Overcoming Parental Ignorance

One of the questions I field from frustrated youth workers just about everywhere I go is this: How can I get parents to sit up and take notice of the many dangerous cultural trends influencing their children and teens today?…
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The Meaning of Pride

Today, I want to share some words from Rick Reed in his Salvo Magazine article on the word Pride. Reed writes, “Until 1970, the former understanding of pride as one of the seven deadly sins was regarded as a foundational…
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Exposing Culture’s Lies

The Bible tells us about the way things in our world should be. As Christian parents raising teens trying to find their way through a world that’s broken and terribly mixed-up, we are given a responsibility to help them wade…
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Counter-Culture Kids

You be you is a current cultural mantra which encourages our kids to embrace, pursue, and become their authentic selves. Our kids are learning that to become their authentic selves, they are to follow their feelings and desires. In her…
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Parent Prompt: Safetyism

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. In his timeless book Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton once wisely quipped that the modern world is “full…
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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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Sexualized Music and Sexting

Back when I was a teenager, there was a growing movement in the church to steer kids away from popular music that referenced things like drugs, sex, and violence. Many parents and youth workers were criticized for monitoring what their…
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