Spiritual Nurture: Make Life Hard For Your Kids
In today’s world, parental intervention and running interference for our kids has become standard practice… But are these practices that make for good parenting?” Download the free Spiritual Nurture handout here.
Praying that our Kids Come to Themselves
Here’s an interesting strategy to consider as you think about how to lead the teenagers you know away from a culturally-influenced self-centered lifestyle, to a God-centered lifestyle: pray for crisis to enter their lives. Self-centeredness with no room for God…
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Episode 193: “How Jesus Helps Parents When They Feel Like Failures” with Lauren Whitman
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.RSS FEED – click here.Access from Apple Podcasts. EPISODE SPONSOR: This episode of Youth Culture Matters is brought to you in part by Judson College. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful…
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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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