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 127: “Purity Culture, Modesty, and a Better View of Biblical Sexuality” with Rachel Joy Welcher
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Episode 125: “Lessons from the Past, Wisdom for the Future” with Steve Garber and Steve Turner
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Episode 122: “Expressive Individualism, Social Imaginary, Deathworks, and More” with Carl Trueman
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Episode 120: “Redeeming Power” with Dr. Diane Langberg
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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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Episode 119: “Encouragement for Bi-Vocational Youth Leaders” with Jordan Martin
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