How to L-O-V-E Hurting Kids
In his book “Help my Kids are Hurting,” my friend Marv Penner offers an acronym to help us think through the skills needed to help wounded kids. The letter L stands for listening – the most fundamental skill needed by…
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Love Your Neighbor
One of the accusations oftentimes made against Christians is that we are legalistic, judgmental, intolerant, and hateful. Truth be told, there are many times when we fail to be Christlike in our interactions with non-believers, and these criticisms are justified.…
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When Do Our Kids Feel Loved
It’s been my experience that research findings often confirm what we’ve known to be true through observation, intuition, and common sense. That’s certainly the case with a new study entitled “When Do Adolescents Feel Loved?” that’s been published in the…
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Episode 36 – Teaching the Bible: 1 John
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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Caring about Love and Sex
Are you paying attention to the lies that are creeping in to the church? New Testament scholar and culture-watcher Dr. Michael Kruger points out that one of the most widespread of these false ideas says that Christians should care more…
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Episode 155: “Exploring Faith’s Big Questions” with Mary Jo Sharp
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: Mary Jo Sharp (website) Darkroom Episode 7/Suffering – Max Wants to…
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How Should We Love?
Our kids are growing up in a world where it is believed that to love someone is to affirm them in whatever they desire or pursue. But this is not love at all. As Christians, Jesus tells us that we…
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What is Real Love?
Do you remember your first crush? I was thinking about my own middle school years when I recently heard a pop music star ruminate on how enjoyable those initial feelings of infatuation really are. For me, infatuation left me feeling…
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Loving as Jesus Loved
The Bible tells us that one of the evidences of the fact that we have been born again and are in Christ is love. Followers of Jesus are called to love each other because we’ve been loved by God. The…
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Valentine’s Day, Kids, and Sexuality
It’s Valentines Day – a day when many of us go out of our way to say “I love you” to those who are special to us. Parents, do you know that expressing love and paying attention to your children…
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