The Best Gift a Parent Can Give
Today is Christmas day, and I want to take a minute to tell you about the greatest gift that I ever received from my parents. Yes, over the years I received many Christmas gifts from my folks. But as the…
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A Prayer for a Wandering Child
Today, I want to share with you a prayer for a wandering adult child, included in Kathleen Nielson’s wonderful book, “Prayers of Parents for Adult Children”: “Lord God, I do not know and cannot see her heart, but all her…
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Praying for our Children and Teens
The prayers we find in the Scriptures are prayers that we can pray for our children and teens. In II Thessalonians 3:5, the Apostle Paul follows up his statements on God’s faithfulness and promised protection from the evil one with…
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Entrusting Children to God 1
My fourteen-year-old self had gone to bed at my usual 9pm time. Two hours later, I woke up to use the bathroom. While walking undetected past my parents darkened room, I not only heard my dad whispering, but I heard…
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Teaching Kids to Walk with God 2
All this week we’re looking at what we need to embrace for ourselves and in turn teach to our kids about what it means to walk with God. The guidance comes from the writings of the seventeenth century Puritan writer,…
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Praying for our Children and Teens
The prayers we find in the Scriptures are prayers that we can pray for our children and teens. In II Thessalonians 3:5, the Apostle Paul follows up his statements on God’s faithfulness and promised protection from the evil one with…
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Entrusting Children to God 5
Today we conclude our week-long look at what it means to entrust our children to God. To entrust our children to God is to completely entrust our children to God! While yes, we have been given the aforementioned responsibilities to…
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Entrusting Children to God 1
My fourteen-year-old self had gone to bed at my usual 9pm time. Two hours later, I woke up to use the bathroom. While walking undetected past my parents darkened room, I not only heard my dad whispering, but I heard…
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Episode 191: “The Power of Praying Moms”
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.RSS FEED – click here.Access from Apple Podcasts. EPISODE SPONSOR: This episode of Youth Culture Matters is brought to you in part by Judson College. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful…
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Episode 73: “Teaching the Bible Effectively to Students Struggling with Mental Health” with Leslie Schmucker
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) Josiah Rios…
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