Youth Pastors and Self Promotion
Today, I want to mention a youth culture trend that is not only shaping the lives of children and teens, but adults as well. Specifically, I’ve seen this trend take root and grow among many who lead and guide kids,…
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What Gen Z Wants
Our friends over at the First Things Journal recently passed on some interesting words from Gen Z writer, Freya India, that she had posted on her Substack online newsletter. Her take on Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012,…
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Youth Pastors and Self Promotion
Today, I want to mention a youth culture trend that is not only shaping the lives of children and teens, but adults as well. Specifically, I’ve seen this trend take root and grow among many who lead and guide kids,…
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Showing Humility on Social Media
All this week we are looking at Paul Tripp’s new book, Reactivity: How The Gospel Transforms our Actions and Reactions, and what it means to respect the dignity of others, remembering that all human beings are divine image bearers, especially…
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Teaching Humility
When popular theologian, writer, and pastor Tim Keller passed away last month, I was in the midst of reading his daily devotional on Proverbs, God’s Wisdom for Navigating Life, with a group of friends. We were actually in the midst…
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Parent Prompt: Modesty
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. When the topic of modesty comes up, most people only see it through the lens of…
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Boasting and Humility
There’s a great lesson for our kids in a story told about retired baseball player Chase Utley. It seems that when Utley was a little boy playing ball, he complained to his father about a fellow player who did quite…
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Being Performative
In his play “As You Like It”, William Shakespeare has his character Jacques utter these now-famous words: “All the world’s a stage, and all men and women are merely players.” If those words were true when first written way back…
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Bragging and Boasting
One of the trends you can’t miss if you’ve spent any time watching professional football is the increasingly common practice of displaying boastful and arrogant behavior. Whether it’s a quarterback sack, an interception, running for a first down, or scoring…
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Family TableTalk – Conversation 83
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Pride vs. Humility
“My greatest character trait is my humility.” Those words were uttered tongue-in-cheek by a friend back in college and I’ve heard the same thing said by others several times since. It’s always said as a joke. But I wonder if…
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