An Important Resolution
Parents, here’s a challenge to adopt a new years resolution that has you bent on gaining weight. No, I’m not encouraging you to go against conventional new year’s resolutions and decide to eat more so that the scale in your…
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Wise Parenting
When I first got started in youth ministry I was a young single man who, truth be told, thought he knew a whole more than he actually did. One of my most arrogant moves was to somehow believe that I…
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Episode 202: “Purposeful Parenting: What Kind of Proverbial Fool Am I?”
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: God’s Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs by…
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Spiritual Nurture: How Do I Discern God’s Will?
When I was in high school, I can remember being asked the question over and over again: “What are you going to do with your life?” It may have been in the form of “what’s your plan for after high…
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Spiritual Nurture: Our Kids and Decision-Making Discernment
The cultural trend is what I call “too much time spent living life in the moment.” This is “Carpe Diem!” and “YOLO” taken to an extreme. While followers of Jesus are called to make the most of every moment, we…
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Helping Kids See Their Sin
Advances in neurological science point to the amazing complexity of our God-made brains. Because their brains are still developing, our children, teens, and even young adults have what is called an underdeveloped impulse control. This makes them less prone to…
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Does Online Time Undo Us?
In his book “Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age”, Samuel D. James describes how our liturgies, or the repeated habits we have developed in the way use technology, have served to deform us in five specific ways.…
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Helping Hurting Kids 3
This week we’re looking at some of Dr. Marv Penner’s strategies and skills for helping hurting kids. Marv has developed a set of skills based on the acronym L.O.V.E. The letter O refers to what we offer students who choose…
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Words of Wisdom 5
All this week I’ve been passing on some great words of wisdom from one of my heroes of the faith. Dr. John Stott was a theologian whose writings have shaped the way I think about faith, life, and family. In…
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Words of Wisdom 4
All this week I’m passing on some great words of wisdom from one of my heroes of the faith. Dr. John Stott was a theologian whose writings have shaped the way I think about faith, life, and family. In his…
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Words of Wisdom 3
All this week I’m passing on some great words of wisdom from one of my heroes of the faith. Dr. John Stott was a theologian whose writings have shaped the way I think about faith, life, and family. In his…
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