Parenting and Soap
I once heard it said that raising teens is like holding a wet bar of soap: too firm a grasp and it shoots from your hand: too loose a grasp, and it slides away. A gentle but firm grasp keeps…
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Walking Through Adolescence with our Kids
The amount of change and questioning our kids face makes teenagers more vulnerable to stress than any other age group. Things that would never bother us as adults can be devastating to a teenager. The stuff we might write off…
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Spiritual Nurture: How Do I Discern God’s Will?
When I was in high school, I can remember being asked the question over and over again: “What are you going to do with your life?” It may have been in the form of “what’s your plan for after high…
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Spiritual Nurture: Our Kids and Decision-Making Discernment
The cultural trend is what I call “too much time spent living life in the moment.” This is “Carpe Diem!” and “YOLO” taken to an extreme. While followers of Jesus are called to make the most of every moment, we…
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Spiritual Nurture: Entrusting Your Children to God
How can we entrust our children to Him in a contemporary world full of distractions that so easily leads both children and parents away from the faithful pursuit of the chief end of “glorifying God and enjoying Him forever?” The…
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Spiritual Nurture: Who’s In Charge?
Our kids need parents who will bring them up in the nurture and discipline of the Lord. Gentle, non-judgmental parenting is not good parenting. Have you read Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6? We are to raise them in the nurture…
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A Sexualized Society
I’m on the couch, watching a movie with three of my grandsons, ages seven, ten, and eleven. Each one of these boys is inching closer to puberty, which means living in a body that is able by God’s design to…
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Parent Prompt: Teen Loneliness & Smartphone Use
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. One of the great promises of the digital revolution was deeper connection—tools that would give us…
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