Pleading For Our Kids. . . .
Early this morning I was reading in the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5, about a distraught father named Jairus. As I pondered his two-sentence urgency-filled request to Jesus I kept thinking about kids today. Jairus said to Jesus, “My little…
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The Latest On Teen Drug Use. . . A Helpful Infographic. . .
I’ve never met a parent who says, “I want my child to grow up to abuse drugs.” There are, however, many twisted individuals making millions of dollars off of their pursuit of the desire to promote addiction. And for too many…
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A Little Exercise In Priorities. . . Football vs. Family. . .
The NFL Playoffs are in full-swing. Last Sunday night, a friend who’s here in the U.S. from her home in Northern Ireland landed in Boston just before dinner. The friends who met her at Logan stopped for dinner at a Buffalo…
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The Great Slip-Up. . . And Satanic Exposition. . .
This morning, I was reminded of a short-yet-thick and significant thought from Os Guinness that captures a mistake that we so easily make and must constantly/consciously work to avoid. Consider the perils of living by the latter-half of what Guinness…
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Pornography And The Brain. . .
This morning I got up early to head south to Daytona Beach. I’m spending the next couple of days with a group of youth workers talking about significant trends in youth culture. This afternoon, I will be speaking about pornography’s…
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A Prayer For Year’s End. . .
While they often get a bad rap, the Puritans sure knew how to pray. For several years now, the Puritans have taken me deeper in prayer as I’ve found a friend in the Puritan prayer book, The Valley of Vision. Heart-yearnings…
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Marketing As Map And Mirror. . . Three Ads To Deconstruct Christianly. . .
Nobody ever asked me, but if they did happen to challenge me to come up with a first-thought one-word response to the word marketing, I would probably respond with either powerful or pervasive. It’s both, and with experts estimating that the average American encounters…
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Kids, Christmas, and Too Much Stuff. . .
Because we live in the most affluent nation on earth, it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that accumulation of stuff is the pathway to fulfillment and redemption. Sadly, what most people never discover is that what we…
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Distracted Teen Drivers. . . A Helpful Infographic. . .
Why did I care so much about my kids and their driving habits when they first got their licenses? Well. . . simple answer is that I remember many of the risks I took when I was first out on…
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Teens And Bad Decisions. . . A Practical Simple Strategy. . .
This morning, I logged on to my Google News Feed and checked out the stories that came up with the key words “Teen,” “Teenager,” “Adolescent,” and “Adolescence.” Sadly, the news that pops up is usually less than positive. Today, however,…
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Teens And Online Safety. . . A Helpful Infographic. . .
We stumbled on this helpful infographic that’s worth passing on to parents. It’s all about some of the deeper and darker corners of the online world. No, we don’t believe that technology, social media, and the internet are inherently evil…
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Ditch The Phones. . . A Thanksgiving Table Challenge. . .
Alone together. . . is that what every member of your family will be tomorrow? Parents, this is for you. Youth workers, this is for you to pass on to the families you know and love. Can we just ditch…
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