Changed Heart
Our teenagers’ lives are marked by a convergence of realities that often result in sinful behavior. They are fallen and depraved beings, they are at a developmental stage where impulsivity is strong, they believe they can make good decisions, and…
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Episode 105: “Is Youth Ministry Programming Dead?” A Roundtable Discussion With Youth Workers
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: Doug Franklin LeaderTreks Moving from Programming to Pastoring (blog from Doug…
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Parenting, Sin, and Struggle
One of the most heart-breaking and difficult aspects of being a Christian parent who longs to see his kids embrace and mature in their own faith, is the rocky nature of adolescent faith. Much of their “wavering” is simply a…
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Parental Love and Sexual Choices
What does parental love and attention have to do with a teen’s sexual choices and activities? Research has shown that teens will often use sex as a means to express and satisfy emotional and interpersonal needs that have little or…
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Five Challenges Facing Parents Today
From time to time my dad verbalizes just how difficult it is to raise children in today’s world. Like many older folks, he remembers the relative innocence of childhood back when he was raising his boys in the 1960s and…
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