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Building Relationships with Kids

Today’s message is one for every adult who is listening. I’m including parents, grandparents, friends, neighbors, youth workers, teachers, and anyone else who is involved in a church where there are children and teens. My friends David Kinnaman and Mark…
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3 Ways To Parent

The Barna Group identifies three approaches to parenting being utilized today. Parenting by default is what Barna calls the path of least resistance. In this approach, parents do whatever comes naturally as influenced by cultural norms and traditions. The objective…
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Spiritual Nurture in the Home

More and more, I’m encountering Christian parents who express fear about passing on the faith to their children. They don’t want to force-feed anything to their kids, and they worry that their kids won’t respond well to efforts to nurture…
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Pop Culture’s Life Shaping Power

In his book, The Culturally Savvy Christian, Dick Staub talks about the powerful role popular culture has taken in shaping our faith. Dick writes, “Popular culture has fed us a veritable potluck of beliefs about God, heaven, hell, truth, sex,…
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From Generation to Generation

One of the most haunting verses in Scripture is one that we should ponder if we care about the spiritual growth and development of our kids. It’s found in the book of Judges, Chapter two, verse ten. The Israelites have…
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Episode 117: “Another Gospel?” with Alisa Childers

Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Alisa Childers (website) Books mentioned or helpful to the conversation: Another…
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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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