When Do Kids Feel Loved
It’s been my experience that research findings often-times confirm what we’ve known to be true through observation, intuition, and just good-old common sense. That’s certainly the case with a new study entitled “When Do Adolescents Feel Loved?” that’s been published…
Read More
Yearning for Heaven in our Suffering
One of the great Christian truths that we’ve overlooked and even forgotten in our day is this: that God does his best work in our lives when he brings us to the end of ourselves through the gift of suffering.…
Read More
The Spiritual Storm of Adolescence
Parents and youth workers should certainly tell the truth and point kids to the truth. But we must also take courage, realizing that when teens question the Christian faith while investigating other faith systems, they may in fact be taking…
Read More
Busyness and Spiritual Growth
Parents, I know that most of you are feeling the heavy weight that’s come with parenting during 2020’s coronavirus pandemic. Your work schedules and locations have changed. You’ve had to grapple with new economic concerns. Many of you have had…
Read More
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…
Read More
Episode 119: “Encouragement for Bi-Vocational Youth Leaders” with Jordan Martin
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: Jordan Martin Martin Paving Duffy Robbins Marv Penner Youth Ministry…
Read More
Episode 118: “Effective Youth Ministry” with Ron Belsterling
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: Ron Belsterling (bio) American Gospel: Christ Alone (Netflix Documentary) CPYU Virtual…
Read More
Spiritual Nurture in the Home
More and more, I’m encountering Christian parents who express fear about passing on the faith to their children. They don’t want to force-feed anything to their kids, and they worry that their kids won’t respond well to efforts to nurture…
Read More
From Generation to Generation
One of the most haunting verses in Scripture is one that we should ponder if we care about the spiritual growth and development of our kids. It’s found in the book of Judges, Chapter two, verse ten. The Israelites have…
Read More