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Do Our Kids Want to Learn about Jesus?

Our friends at the Barna Institute have released a new report on members of Gen Z and spirituality that is titled “The Open Generation”. There’s some encouraging news for those who love and lead kids regarding their interest in Christianity.…
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Episode 49: “School As Mission Field” with Travis Deans

Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Kyle Hoffsmith (website) Old North Church (Kyle’s church) Linda Oliver…
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A Good Friday Prayer for our Kids

On this Good Friday, I want to share with you what I call a parent’s version of the Book of Common Prayer’s Good Friday prayer. Gracious God, the comfort of all who sorrow, the strength of all who suffer: Let…
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Easter Literacy

It’s been over a decade since The Barna Research Group released a list of notable trends in the church, including one alarming trend that we must think about this week. Overall, the Barna Group reported that the Christian Church was…
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Pointing Kids To God’s Providence

What questions do your children and teens verbalize and ponder as they encounter the inevitable difficult situations and circumstances of life that come with living in a broken and sin-saturated world? When things in their lives get turned upside-down and…
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