Parent Prompt: Navigating the Gender Conversation
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. Perhaps the biggest and most confusing youth culture shift of the last decade are beliefs and…
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God’s Plan for Sex and Gender: 10 Teaching Points for Home and Church
Our children and teens are being educated on matters of sex and gender by a current cultural narrative that engages in 24/7 messaging, even to children as young as pre-school age. This education – or more accurately mis-education – takes…
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Episode 48: “Preparing to Read Scripture” with Matt Smethurst
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) Linda Oliver…
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Easter Literacy
It’s been over a decade since The Barna Research Group released a list of notable trends in the church, including one alarming trend that we must think about this week. Overall, the Barna Group reported that the Christian Church was…
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Episode 47: “Trusting The Gospels” with Peter J. Williams
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Pointing Kids To God’s Providence
What questions do your children and teens verbalize and ponder as they encounter the inevitable difficult situations and circumstances of life that come with living in a broken and sin-saturated world? When things in their lives get turned upside-down and…
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Episode 164: “Suffering Draws Us Closer To God” with Dan and Kristin Sterk
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Episode 45 – “Teaching the Resurrection” with Sean McDowell
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Episode 162: “Theology of the Body” with Timothy Tennent
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One Mark of Spiritual Maturity
Some of us in the church believe that we’re doing a good job if we’re raising our kids like those three little monkeys on the statue. You know them – Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil. We…
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