To All Kids Starting School. . .
School starts today in our town. Here’s some good stuff that popped up in my Facebook news feed the other day. It’s from my friend Nate Stratman, the Pastor of Family Ministries at First Pres. in Colorado Springs. It’s great…
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Why I Communicate With The Dead. . .
No. . . I haven’t gone all “Long Island Medium” on you. That kind of stuff is just flat out nuts, dangerous, and off the charts wrong. What I am saying is that I’ve learned that there are a host…
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Parents, Kids, and Sports Pressure. . . .
Are you caught up in Little League World Series mania yet? I’ve tracked the annual event since I was a wide-eyed Little League dreamer myself, playing in the East Abington Little League outside of Philly. There was never any post-season…
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Media. . . Body Image Map and Mirror for Our Kids. . .
If you ever sat through any of our CPYU training on the power of media, marketing, and music, you know that we refer to culture as both a “map” and a “mirror.” Another way we say it is that culture…
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“I Missed It”. . . A Tragic Parental Lament. . .
When I was the father of young children. . . several years ago but not really that long ago. . . I heard my friend Ken Davis say something that hit me like a brick and has stuck with me…
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Lessons on Pornography. . .
Last week Lisa and I traveled to the beautiful Berkshire hills in Western Massachusetts. We made a short getaway together out of an invitation to have a heart-to-heart conversation about the dangers and brokenness of pornography with a group of…
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Running On Empty. . . The More You Have The More You Want. . .
The other day I discovered a large bank of full bookshelves at the back corner of an indoor flea market. They were a running a special. . . ten books for ten bucks! Dangerous for me. I walked out with…
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Thoughts On Dungy. . .
What in the world is happening with Tony Dungy?!? That’s what I wondered when I logged on to my smart phone to check the news the other day. I’m on vacation. . . a vacation that includes no television (it’s…
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Le Tour. . . Le Youth Ministry. . . and Le Life.
Things aren’t the way they’re supposed to be. Life hurts. Our best laid plans rarely come to fruition. These are realities that I was thinking about last night as Lisa and I shared a wonderfully encouraging evening with a long-time…
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Same-Sex Issues. . . Some Reading Suggestions. . . Part 3. . . .
Over the course of the last eighteen months and my focused reading on the same-sex issues that have been at the forefront in our culture and the church, my prayer has been that God’s Spirit would guide me into a…
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Same-Sex Issues. . . Some Reading Suggestions. . . Part 2. . . .
Yesterday I posted a list of three books that I’ve recently read that have been most helpful in framing a Biblical response to the issue of same-sex attraction. . . a topic that’s led to much debate of late in…
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Same-Sex Issues. . . Some Reading Suggestions. . . Part 1. . . .
A few months ago a youth ministry friend asked me to blog on what I’ve been reading in response to my desire to sort out the same-sex issues that have been so prominent in culture in recent months. “I need a…
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