Often when I go and speak with parents on this topic of identity formation, I’ll have dads and moms come up to me afterward and say something like this: “That’s why we’ve got to get back to the good ‘ole days when kids obeyed their parents and did what they were told.” Makes sense, right? Everything in our society would be better if our kids just listened and obeyed us. If they took their...
Because the media doesn’t report the spread of the good news across town and around the globe, it’s easy for Christians to be unaware of the incredible work God is actively doing today. The same God who turned the world upside down two thousand years ago is still changing lives and communities today.The gospel continues to spread and transform lives across cultures and contexts today, just as it...
After decades of working with young people, I assumed I understood their world. I was probably wrong about how much the culture had shifted beneath my feet. In a fast-changing society, an adult’s experience does not always keep pace with the youth, even if you are a parent, a teacher, or someone who works closely with children. Recently, I asked my Gen Alpha daughter why she thought adults so...
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene...
“Safety” is one of the most important yet most misunderstood words in our cultural moment. We hear it everywhere. People are searching for safe spaces, safe relationships, safe communities—and rightly so. Many people have been hurt in places that should have been marked by care and protection. Kids are chronically bullied in classrooms, and sins like anger and abuse are hidden in homes. Even the...
