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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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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A Compelling Witness for our Kids
In his book, “The Patient Ferment of the Early Church”, Alan Kreider offers an explanation of how Christianity took root and grew in the Roman Empire, even though the church was marginalized, despised, and discriminated against. The parallels to the…
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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.
Escape into Social Media, or Christ?
I recently read through the report on teens and media from the University of California and found some thought-provoking data. The report is titled “Reality Bites: Teens and Screens 2024.” The survey found that that the number one reason young…
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Can we Flourish without Biblical Christianity?
Russell Kirk was a twentieth century social critic who back in 1992 said something very important regarding the changes taking place in culture as it slides further and further into secularism, and what needs to take place. Kirk said, “If…
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Cultivating Life Long Faith 5
All this week we’ve been looking at David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock’s book Faith for Exiles, and the five ministry practices churches and families must pursue to lead kids into life-long faith. The research done by Kinnaman and Matlock indicates…
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Cultivating Life Long Faith 2
All this week we’re looking at David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock’s book Faith for Exiles, and the five ministry practices churches and families must pursue to lead kids into life-long faith. The research done by Kinnaman and Matlock indicates that…
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