Trend Alert: Language is Important – Problems with the Term “Gay Christian”
This CPYU Trend Alert, written by Dr. C. Scott Shidemantle, Professor of Biblical Studies at Geneva College, in Beaver Falls, PA, tackles the issues of language, the problem of “gay Christian” terminology, a challenge to use more biblical language, and…
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Dear Parents and Youth Workers
I recently ran across the transcript from an interview I conducted fifteen years ago with theologian and author, David Wells. My last question to Dr Wells was this: If you were to address a room full of youth workers and…
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Following the Bible or Culture
In today’s world, our kids are encouraged by the cultural narrative to live their lives at the level of their experiences and feelings. If a decision needs to be made or a belief is embraced, those decisions and beliefs should…
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Episode 173: “Lies about Sex and Gender” with Rosaria Butterfield
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, books, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Rosaria Butterfield Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria…
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A High School Student Who Stands for Truth
Back in February of this year, a sixteen-year-old high school junior at St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Renfrow, Ontario Canada, was suspended for voicing his concerns and moral objections to the school’s transgender bathroom policies. Josh Alexander was actually arrested…
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Episode 171: “Holy Sexuality” with Christopher Yuan
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, books, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Christopher Yuan Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s…
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A Story of Teen Honesty
Several weeks ago, a 14-year-old high school freshman name Connor Halsa went on a fishing trip with his family to Minnesota’s Lake of the Woods. As Connor was patiently waiting to hook a fish his line suddenly tightened up. Something…
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Teaching Truth
It is a bad thing when we get swept up in the current of what the Apostle Paul calls “the course of this world”, leaving our minds and the ability to discern between truth and lies at the door. Rather…
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Exposing Culture’s Lies
The Bible tells us about the way things in our world should be. As Christian parents raising teens trying to find their way through a world that’s broken and terribly mixed-up, we are given a responsibility to help them wade…
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Counter-Culture Kids
You be you is a current cultural mantra which encourages our kids to embrace, pursue, and become their authentic selves. Our kids are learning that to become their authentic selves, they are to follow their feelings and desires. In her…
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