Help nonbelievers students know they belong in your group

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it

Three Things Youth Ministers Need to Know

by Tim Challies

Four things to consider as we seek to disciple the teenagers who act out or try our patience at youth group

Nothing is wrong with posting our updates and accomplishments on social media, but we must remember that true worth from our work will be found in what Christ says about it.

Sean McDowell

Murthy told CNN on Sunday that he believes being on social media “does a disservice” to kids early in their teen years

Trump: the “gender confusion” pushed on our nation’s youth is a form of child abuse

An analysis of 3,757 U.S. parents with children under the age of 18 found that roughly 40 percent say they are “extremely or very worried” about their children’s mental health

Roughly a third (35%) of U.S. parents say it is extremely or very important to them that their children have similar religious beliefs to their own

“Today’s 18-year-olds are like the 12-year-olds from a decade ago.”

Walt Mueller

liberal parents feel Outraged when schools hide their minor children’s gender “transitions” from them until it is too late to intervene

Inside the car, they also discovered a gun and some marijuana.

‘Finally, A Church That Is Acting Like A Church’. Insists On Traditional Bathrooms, Locker Rooms

Policy can be limiting to transgender-identified individuals, board claims

The Cyberguy’ Kurt Knutsson breaks down third-party supervision over TikTok and widespread collegiate bans on the app

One of the biggest problems with today’s young adults is a “failure to launch.”

Don’t miss this parenting video by Alexandra Motz. It’s really good. Alexandra is a part of HomeWord’s Pass it On training program

“People often talk about how the children in these situations are vulnerable, but it’s the families as a whole that are vulnerable,”

The average age of first consuming porn is age 12

It follows the Calendar Year, and has longer readings that take you through the Old Testament in (almost) its entirety each year, and the New Testament twice each year.

Top 10 Think Biblically Podcast For 2022

She refused to side with not only called for police to be defunded but for the disruption of the nuclear family and for “a queer-affirming network.”

Biden administration attempted to end the reporting requirements for teachers. If so we would have 16 allegations with criminal charges, not the full 772.

Biden Education Department to Curtail Trump-Era Effort to Track Teacher Sex Crimes

I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce

The Blaze

The machine learning chatbot is inaccessible on school networks and devices, due to “concerns about negative impacts on student learning,”

The mandate forces doctors and hospitals to perform gender-transition procedures on their patients even if this violates their conscience and best medical judgment

Teachers unions held children’s education hostage to secure multiple multi-billion-dollar ransom payments from taxpayers

The recent events reignited a decades-long conversation about the use of rap lyrics in courtrooms across the country

Wow! This is a powerful blog by Brandon Janous and our friends at Parent Cue. This blog made me want to lean into my family…

I love this rendition the Nativity Story. It was filmed in Kenya and imagined by children with some of their cultural traditions. It’s beautiful

O Come All Ye Faithful, Except When Christmas Falls on a Sunday

And How to Fix It WEBINAR

Because children are vulnerable, they need to be protected. After more than two decades as a family counselor, Julie Lowe has…

How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Allowing transgender students to compete on girls’ teams put biologically female athletes at a disadvantage and deprived them of honors and opportunities

A transgender student in Oklahoma was charged with assault after the student allegedly punched two female students in the girls’ restroom

A high school group that promotes a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology

Two Freebies for a Holly-Jolly Youth Event

More disturbing information is surfacing regarding the police-hating drag queen, Marti Gould Cummins, whom Joe Biden invited to the White House

Biden has previously described Republicans as “immoral” for passing laws to block transgender procedures for children

Many cited high rent, money concerns, and job losses as reasons why

Violent and disrespectful classroom behavior has led to a staggering 50 teachers and bus drivers to quit a Florida school district in the last two years

American Academy of Pediatrics executive admits children on trans hormones ‘probably will be infertile

We’ve all been there… Your plans fell through, something changed, or you just got too busy… and you have to come up with a new plan!

Well, it’s that private information could potentially end up in Chinese hands and used in ways that would negatively impact Americans

The app misleads children in particular about the level of inappropriate content and the security of consumer information

A weekly listing of hot cultural items from the Internet, music, television, and movies

Marijuana abuse among 6- to 18-year-olds has increased 245% since 2000, while child alcohol abuse has steadily declined over those years

School counselors must be prepared to talk about sexting and pornography use with students, and to change the narrative about these behaviors

Making their brain structures appear several years older than the brains of comparable peers before the pandemic

Two Fed-Up Pastors Have Brilliant Solution to Drag Queen Story Hour: ‘Push Back on Evil’

In June, Newendorp shared a poem, “Jesus at the Gay Bar,” to Instagram. “Love Jesus. Be gay. Get ordained,”

After inhaling, the sticky and sugary content of the vaping liquid sticks to the teeth — causing all the damage

She was pimping me and I didn’t like that. She would pimp me to men

The Balenciagas Of An Anti-Christian World ‘Condemn’ Child Abuse While Castrating, Traumatizing, And Exploiting Kids

Over the last 15 years I have learned some things in regards to caring for and leading volunteers and I wanted to share my top 4 thoughts

18 Festive Holiday Celebrations

Who has my heart? What are my motives? How do I make choices?

“We found our students had disengaged more and more from real life as their phones became their world,”

Prior projects have found a connection between adolescent social media use and disordered eating or negative body image

Thousands of child victims are being denied justice and George Gascón and his group of radical prosecutors can care less

Sleepaway summer camp can help promote essential socio-emotional abilities in kids, such as the ability to control oneself, cooperate, or help others

Words cannot adequately express the joy grandkids bring us and the sadness we so often feel when they live far away from

Loving our children’s children can also bring heartache or pain. Larry Fowler puts it so well in his book Overcoming

Growing Body Of Evidence Shows ‘Social Influence’ Is Causing Teens To Undergo Sex Changes

To some degree, Christians date and marry nonbelievers because of a lack of imagination

Father, I know that I’ve spent much more time this week fearing for my child rather than depending on you. Forgive me for trusting so much in myself and so little in you

So when you are tempted to beat yourself up for parenting failures (real or perceived), look up to see God’s smile upon you

In a culture where the majority of people self-identify as Christians, it’s important for youth workers (and all Christians, in general) to double-down on a commitment to Christology – which asks two big questions, “Who is Jesus” and “What did Jesus accomplish?”

As teen, 18, tells how her reaction to the jab saw her miss her Year 12 exams

Michigan Department Of Education Provided Educators With Materials On How To Create A ‘Gay Straight Alliance’ Club

Contextualization is really about effective communication and making sure what we say is the same thing that is received. I am not changing the message

Kids and student ministry leaders need to work together to create a discipleship plan that goes from preschool through high school

Prioritizing personal faith life over professional ministry success

As youth ministers, we are no strangers to the mental health crisis facing the teenagers we serve

The Barna Group conducted a global survey that included over 24,000 teenagers from 26 different countries

A critical period for neuroplasticity in the frontal cortex during the teenage years, a time at which risk-taking behaviors and mental illness risk peak

Discipling Those Called to Ministry Leadership

(& What to Say to Them)

Sharing life together with the parents allowed me to set an example to strengthen the relationship between the students and parents

A childlike faith isn’t at odds with intellectual curiosity. In fact, a child’s appetite for learning could be the conduit through which he is brought to a saving faith

In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse

Greg Stier

Shying away from hard subjects does little to prepare children to defend a faith that’s increasingly under attack

by Melissa Keffler

By Walt Mueller

Despite long-term trends away from religion, Barna Group finds openness in teens

by Christian Vargus

5 ways you can nurture faith that goes beyond youth group

We must not fall for the lie of culture that our bodies are to be changed to meet our self-perception

The state of Generation Z’s faith

We have a generation of young people for whom the call to repentance must include a call to turn from porn

But understanding how teenagers see the world or what makes them behave in a certain way is important

One 15-year-old caller said 80% of their friends vape and they feel strongly addicted, they vape upon waking and pick it up every five minutes