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Parent Prompt: Youth Sports & Church Participation

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. Download the Parent Prompt here. By: Jason Engle, CPYU Research Fellow and Teaching Pastor at Westwood…
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Episode 211: “Loneliness” with Shelby Abbott

Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast:Shelby AbbottWhy We’re Feeling Lonely (and What We Can Do About It) by Shelby AbbottOther books by…
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Episode 95: “Reframing Dating for Students” with Foster Toft

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)Foster Toft (Bethel Church Indiana)Three Biblical Truths…
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Cultivating Life Long Faith 5

All this week we’ve been looking at David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock’s book Faith for Exiles, and the five ministry practices churches and families must pursue to lead kids into life-long faith. The research done by Kinnaman and Matlock indicates…
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