The Church

The Unaffiliated and Affiliated

Some new research on the religious lives of members of Gen Z is worth pondering. After looking at ten thousand surveys and one-hundred fifty interviews with young people ages thirteen to twenty-five, The Springtide Research Institute separated respondents into the…
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Episode 120: “Redeeming Power” with Dr. Diane Langberg

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: Dr. Diane Langberg (Bio and Journey) DianeLangberg.com Diane Langberg online training…
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Building Relationships with Kids

Today’s message is one for every adult who is listening. I’m including parents, grandparents, friends, neighbors, youth workers, teachers, and anyone else who is involved in a church where there are children and teens. My friends David Kinnaman and Mark…
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Adult Friends

I recently walked with two parents through some difficult circumstances involving a teenage child. Dad and mom were blindsided by the discovery of some ongoing habits and poor behavioral choices. As a difficult parent-teen confrontation loomed on the horizon, there…
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