Engaging Culture 5
Today we conclude this week’s look at strategies for engaging the soul of today’s youth culture. The strategy we need to address is one that is difficult, simply because it’s employed in times of deep family pain and hurt. It’s…
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Parenting for Deep Faith
My friend, youth pastor and writer Mike McGarry, offers some great advice to youth workers and parents on how to prepare students for a lifelong faith. This is important to consider as the research consistently points to the fact that…
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Safeguarding Our Kids
Our friend, counselor Julie Lowe, has written a brand new book for parents that addresses many of the safety issues our kids and families face in today’s world. The book is called Safe Guards: Shielding our Homes and Equipping Our…
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The Dangers of Helicopter Parenting
One of the most frustrating realities facing college administrators and faculty is the rise in helicopter parenting. It seems that more and more parents are hovering over their college-aged children, running interference for them if they are unsatisfied with a…
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Prayer for Foolish Children
In his sermon on the mount, Jesus offered a very clear picture of the two options we all have as we travel through life on this earth. He said, “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and…
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Discipline and Love
One of the great undercurrents driving so much in today’s youth culture and culture-at-large is the belief that everyone has been given the right to define right and wrong however they might choose. In addition, it is now seen as…
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When We Forget God
Way back in 1983, the Russian political prisoner Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave a compelling Templeton Prize address. In his speech, Solzhenitsyn spoke about the horrors of Soviet communism and how they came to be. He said this: “Men have forgotten God.…
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