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The Complexities of Parenting in a Digital Age

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Deuteronomy 11:18-19, Proverbs 22:6, Isaiah 30:21, Romans 7:15, 19, 1 Corinthians 10:23 , Psalm 119:37

Raising kids today is more complicated than it was when I was a kid. Parents feel out of control, hopelessly overmatched by the deluge of devices. And we can’t even count on one another to back us up....

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The Struggles of Parenting in the Digital Age

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Jonathan Haidt

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When I talk with parents of adolescents, the conversation often turns to smartphones, social media, and video games. The stories parents tell me tend to fall into a few common patterns. One is the “co...

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Modern Parents Need Help with Technology

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Andy Crouch

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Deuteronomy 11:18-19, Proverbs 22:6 , Exodus 20:8-10, Matthew 6:33, Romans 12:2, Psalm 119:37

If there is one word that sums up how many of us feel about technology and family life, it’s Help! Parents know we need help. We love the way devices make our lives easier amid the stress and busy...

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The Eternal Question: “Why?”

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Job 38:42 , Exodus 3:1–14 , Ecclesiastes 3:1–14, Romans 11:33–36, John 14:5–6 , Psalm 139:1–6

If you’ve been around a kid who’s just learned to ask “why?”, it can be a bit much. You’ll be asked, “why is grass green?” “Why do birds fly?” “Why do I get hungry?” and much, much, more. Pa...

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Nudges for the Worse

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Andy Crouch

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Deuteronomy 6:6-9 , Genesis 13:10-12, Exodus 32:1-4 , Matthew 4:8-10, Romans 7:15-20, Psalm 1:1-3

As popularized in Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s fascinating book by the same name, nudges are small changes in the environment around us that make it easier for us to make the choices we want to ...

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Living with Pain in a World Governed by Technique

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Alan Noble

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Genesis 11:1-9, Exodus 16:13-36, Ecclesiastes 1:12-18, Luke 10:38-42, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Psalm 127:1-2

Living in a society governed by technique conditions us to believe that in every way life is easier than it ever has been. Technique is the use of rational methods to maximize efficiency, and we...

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Simon Sinek

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Authority

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

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Discovering our Common Struggles

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Alan Noble

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1 Kings 19:3-8 , Proverbs 14:13 , Lamentations 1:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Matthew 11:28-30, Psalm 42:5

Get to know someone really well, and almost without fail, you will discover a person who routinely struggles to get out of bed in the morning. And not just because they’re tired. They can’t get out of...

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Caring For Them is What We’re on this Earth For

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Thomas G. Long

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Isaiah 1:17, Colossians 3:12, Romans 12:10, Proverbs 31:8-9, Galatians 6:2, Matthew 25:40, James 1:27

In this beautiful illustration from Tom Long’s well-known preaching guide, The Witness of Preaching , a pastor shares a true story of what valuing human life can look like when God’s Kingdom takes ro...

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Defenders Of Children

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Ben Lansing and D. J.Marotta

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Exodus 1:15–22, 1 Samuel 1:20–28, 2 Kings 4:18–37, Matthew 2:16–18, Mark 10:13–16, Psalm 127:3–5

Pharaoh viewed the Hebrews as a growing threat to the Egyptian way of life, so he ordered all Hebrew baby boys killed. King Herod feared that a future king would arise from Bethlehem, so he ordered al...

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Heavenly Father We confess before you

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Jacob Traeger

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Heavenly Father We confess before you and before one another that we do not always trust your goodness. We are worried about losing control of our lives, and we are scared of what taking up our cros...

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Rod Dreher

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Exodus 16:1-36, 1 Kings 17:8-16, Ecclesiastes 3:1-13, Matthew 6:25-34 , Colossians 3:23-24, Psalm 118:24

Everydayness is my problem. It’s easy to think about what you would do in wartime, or if a hurricane blows through, or if you spent a month in Paris, or if your guy wins the election, or if you won th...

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God of grace, wisdom and hope—Father,

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Richard Herman

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1 Corinthians 4:14-17, Ruth 1:16-18, Mark 10:13-16, 1 Chronicles 29:19, Luke 15:11-32, Genesis 12:3, Joshua 24:15

God of grace, wisdom and hope—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—from whom every family in heaven and on earth gets its true name. You created us in Your image, making us for relationships, giving us meaning...

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The Messy Middle

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William Bridges

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Crises

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2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Hebrews 10:23, Romans 12:2, Psalm 37:23-24, Philippians 1:6, Isaiah 43:19, Ecclesiastes 3:1

The Messy Middle In his classic work Transitions, author and professor William Bridges shares an excellent anecdote about life in crisis: it can happen at any time and in a myriad of ways. It also de...

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The Cycle of Brokenness in Poverty

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Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert

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For some people the brokenness in these foundational relationships results in material poverty, that is their not having sufficient money to provide for the basic physical needs of themselves and thei...

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Soon and Very Soon?

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Mia Levetan

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Ecclesiastes 3:1, Genesis 18:10–14, Habakkuk 2:3, 2 Peter 3:8, Luke 2:25–32, Psalm 90:4

My kids are still young enough that they ask cute questions. My youngest is still learning what all the measurements mean. He’ll ask, “Mom, how long until we leave?” “15 minutes.” “Is that long?” “No,...

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Nearly Amish

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Andy Crouch

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Ecclesiastes 3:1, Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Proverbs 25:16 , 1 Corinthians 6:12 , Psalm 101:3, Philippians 4:8

Our family is radical, but we are definitely not Amish—although we love to eat the fruit, vegetables, meat, and cheese produced by our Amish neighbors forty miles away in Lancaster County, Pennsylvani...

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The Causes (& Solutions) of Poverty are Complex

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Timothy Keller

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Poverty

The poverty of an inner-city neighborhood like Sandtown was not initially the product of individual irresponsible behavior or family breakdown. A complex range of structural factors led to the exclusi...

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Jim Elliot

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Crises

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

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What It Takes to Birth a Multi-Ethnic Church and a Just Mission

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Mekdes Haddis

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Micah 6:8

A House for All People Every summer my church hosts a week-long summer camp where children experience the beauty and majesty of the Lord. The first year we sent our daughter to it, she loved it and l...

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Mother's Day Intercessory Prayer

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Richard Herman

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Luke 7:11-15, John 19:25-27, 1 Samuel 1:1-28, John 14:27, Jeremiah 30:17, Isaiah 66:13, Psalm 34:18

Thank You, Lord, for the gifts of life, of love and of care that come from You, wrapped in our moms and step-moms, in our grand-moms, great-grandmas, daughters, sisters, and aunts. We’re grateful for...

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Ken Myers

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[Suffering] may be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the saints of earlier centuries… it is the burden of living in a consumer culture where the individual looms lar...

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A Failure to Appreciate the Other’s Point of View

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John Stott

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Proverbs 18:13, Matthew 18:16, Romans 12:18, Proverbs 20:3, Matthew 5:24

Most quarrels are due to a misunderstanding, and the misunderstanding is due to our failure to appreciate the other person’s point of view. It is more natural to us to talk than to listen, to argue th...

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Work, Relationships, and Personal Maturity

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Tom Nelson

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Proverbs 12:11, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, Matthew 22:37-39, Colossians 3:23-24, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Psalm 133:1

Sharan Merriam and Carolyn Clark, in their fine study Lifelines , effectively show that life is fundamentally about two things—our work and our relationships. And maturity is found in having the c...

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Terry Tempest Williams

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Job 1:13-22, Genesis 45:4-8, Ruth 1:16-17 , Mark 5:21-43, John 11:1-44 , Psalm 34:18

An individual doesn’t get cancer, a family does.

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Tech is Too Easy

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Andy Crouch

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Genesis 11:1-9 , Exodus 32:1-6 , Ecclesiastes 1:9-10, Matthew 6:19-21 , Romans 1:21-25, Psalm 115:4-8

Now, technology is everywhere. I don’t mean just glowing screens and digital devices; I mean the whole apparatus of “easy everywhere” that has come into existence in just over the span of one human li...

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Brian Fikkert and Kelly M. Kapic

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The causes of poverty are extremely complex, and the solutions usually are unclear. To make matters worse, even followers of Jesus Christ do not have a shared understanding of what success in poverty ...

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Maya Angelou

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Diversity and Inclusion

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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Troubling Statistics about Mental Health in our Youth

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Max Lucado

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Isaiah 41:10 , 1 Kings 19:4-8, Jeremiah 29:11, John 14:27, Philippians 4:6-7 , Psalm 34:17-18

Most alarming is the absence of peace among our youth. Research from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is showing an epidemic of mental health problems among eighteen- to twenty-four-year...

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Crises Reveal God & Us

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Marlena Graves

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Crises

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Genesis 32:28, Exodus 3:14, Job 3:11, Psalm 139:14, Isaiah 6:5, Matthew 16:15-17

God uses our identity crises to reveal who we are and who he is. Sometimes these crises come out of nowhere. Something devastating happens. Someone close to us dies. We are diagnosed, or someone we kn...

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