Even Jesus had to make it through the mess in the middle. After years of mentoring his disciples, they still didn’t seem to get it

Youth ministry is not dead. Youth ministry is not even dying. Contrary to how we all may feel while climbing out of a sweaty church van after a week-long mission trip

Dr. Stephen Levine, a clinical psychiatrist who founded an Ohio gender clinic in 1974, is concerned about hormones being used to treat distressed transgender children

Indeed, if anything, the report underplays the ghoulish revenue potential for these procedures, since it fails to mention the complications

by Jonathan McKee: 3 Ways to Help Our Kids Tap into Truth

Does Church Really Help My Kid?

3 Ways to Help Our Kids Tap into Truth

by Jonathan McKee

(Here’s a post that Jonathan sent me, I believe about two years ago that we never posted. My bad)

A few months ago Buzzworthy and TruthTheory each published articles claiming religious kids were less generous….

So, what do I mean by good communication between an adult leader and a young person?

A Storytelling App Beloved By Gen Z

Probably, nothing will change until enough mama bears sink their teeth and claws into these crooked pedophiles and grooming school administrators and school board members

As soft-on-crime LA District Attorney George Gascón — whose woke policies have been blamed for rising crime the city and surrounding areas — has faced mounting criticism over his progressive directives to reform prosecutions

US consumer prices rose by more than forecast to a 40-year high in September, pressuring the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates even more aggressively to stamp out persistent inflation

There could have been two dead kids because of two stupid grown men

This might lead to dependency on highly addictive drugs

9 Reasons Why Media Is At Fault.

According to Pinterest.

“Putting off marriage, going to college, entering the workforce, women are doing that at much higher rates than they used to,”

Go to church your first Sunday in college. The most influential, biblically founded advice for me in my freshman year of college

School choice advocates defeated union opposition that tried to stop law even after it was signed

Sharon Osbourne Agrees with Kanye West on BLM ‘Scam’ Wants Donation Back

Tim Keller is one of the greatest thinkers in our world today. I loved his thoughts on Why Does Anyone Become a Christian?

Serving Each Other and Falling in Love Again Every Day

..said the group could provide false documentation to hide children’s whereabouts while they participated in gay activities

When young people are adopted into the body of Christ and the local church family, youth ministry shifts from ministry FOR teenagers to ministry WITH teenagers

Cardiologist calls for the immediate suspension of all COVID shots as real-world data show they cause more harm than good

25% Of People Who Received Covid-19 Vaccination Missed Work Or Reported A “Serious Event” Affecting Their Normal Life Functions, According To CDC Data

The father has been instructed by the court to call his child by a new, chosen name, new preferred pronouns, and to refer to the child as being of the new, chosen gender. Golisano Children’s Hospital recommends puberty blockers.

Offers puberty blockers to kids, cross-sex hormones, guides for boys on “tucking”, and guides for girls on “chest binding.” They also promote their services in helping young children fully transition

Last the National School Boards Association’s letter to the DOJ asking them to investigate parents who were opposed to critical race theory

There’s how many mental health disorders that make you hate your body, and the solution isn’t to change your body, it’s to fix your brain.

Four former Connecticut high school female athletes are suing the state for its policy allowing transgender students to participate in women’s sports

Aimed at minors, incorrectly markets puberty-blocking drugs as safe substances that can be used “like a stop sign” to halt puberty

Pro-Trans Group Behind Virginia School Walkout Plans To ‘Rehome’ Gay Kids Who Hate Their Parents

If a child comes into the state by themselves, the bill states that “A court of this state has temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in this state and the child has been abandoned

The best research data we have is “The Binding Health Project”. This was an online survey of 1800 chest-binding females and was conducted in 2014

The “Equality Act.” It would “demolish existing civil rights and constitutional freedoms — and is a grave threat to parental rights” and “result in lifelong physical and emotional harm to countless children, who would be subject to even more dangerous drugs and surgeries,”

Despite Biden’s move to force America to accept transgenderism in school locker rooms, the states have been passing their own laws and sports and education rules putting limits on transgender students

Thousands were allowed to enter the U.S. without proper vetting and hundreds pose a national security risk

Josh Evans

“Isolated in a world full of connection.”

Here are four ways our ministry intentionally connects with parents

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Dogs should be groomed not kids! Transgender grooming in schools

Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are helping market high-potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as your mother’s ‘medical marijuana’

This is a direct result of having an open border. The strategy was quickly devised  in response to seven student overdoses over a three weeks – at the Bernstein campus and Hollywood High School.

Even if inflation slows in coming months, Americans will have to spend thousands more in 2022.

Unveils the Marxist strategy of creating false racial tension between Americans, with its ultimate goal of obtaining power, destroying capitalism and replacing God with government

Nation’s top early childhood development organization tells educators to ‘use tenets of Critical Race Theory’ when working with babies

Man admits to killing teen after political dispute

The effects of social media and the evolution of parenting

The promise of Heaven reminds us that our suffering is not to last forever

The intelligence report warns agents the freed prisoners have been seen within migrant caravans traveling from Tapachula, Mexico toward the U.S.-Mexico border as recently as July

Some states are spending taxpayer dollars to push progressive left causes

Yes, Boston Children’s Hospital is doing ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries on kids

The proposed petition would prohibit minors from receiving sex-reassignment surgery and puberty-blocking hormone treatments, and would also require that older patients sign a consent form and wait 24 hours before starting such treatments

That would roll back some accommodations and tighten parental notification requirements

A Guide to Developing and Delivering Messages That Stick

Four Insights About Parents That Should Radically Impact Your Ministry

Close the border: She thought she was taking a painkiller but it was laced with fentanyl

Mostly out of love and good intentions, we parents offer support in ways that our teenagers experience as stress because our support can come with qualifiers

How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups

Seducing Our Daughters’ the impact transgenderism is having on girls

Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension is the inheritance given to Christians, and the Spirit is the guarantee of our place with Christ, connecting us to the promised glory to come

Get to know youth with the long game in mind

A parent is the number one spiritual influence in a child’s life, Rooted wants to equip and encourage parents as they seek to grow their child in knowledge and love of Jesus

What is the possible significance for the Anglican communion?

The ghastly fad of genital mutilation will end when the lawsuits begin

I have nothing in common with activists who are trying to sterilise children and invade sex specific places

Household debt growth also slowed to a 7.4% annual rate from 8.3% in the first three months of the year

Help equip you with resources to share with parents for any upcoming Fall Kickoff or Back-to-School

In this episode, Alice is joined by Davis Lacey, a former youth pastor who now leads a young church plant in Ellijay, GA

Assailant Arrested –It Was Not His First Arrest – Nearly Killed the Child

Staff Member Who Searched Him Overdosed From Exposure

Parents Feel that The Biden administration proposed new regulations on Title IX will danger children’s safety in schools

Effectively leading and discipling them into a lifetime of vital Christian faith

Students who take notes by hand have higher GPA, remember more than those who type on digital devices

Talking with your teen about high school helps them open up about big (and little) things in their lives

Online Communities of Adolescents and Young Adults Celebrating, Glorifying, and Encouraging Self-Harm and Suicide are Growing Rapidly on Twitter

Ministry With Stressed And Fearful Students

How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation. by Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk

Small group management is tricky and requires a delicate balance of fun, focus, and
accountability

Proof America is not a racist country…

Skipping Breakfast May Increase Chance of Kids and Teens Developing Psychosocial Health Problems

…Not Violence

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Teenagers in the U.S. are gaining the skills they need to prevent them from falling prey to the cartels that are targeting them viciously with fentanyl-laced pills

“I don’t hide how I feel, but I can’t pretend I’m promoting an agenda even though I clearly am with all the stuff I’m doing.”

A teen charged with setting a fire that killed five members of a Senegalese immigrant family in Denver, Colorado, has become the first person to challenge police use of Google search histories

A Dad Took Pictures of His Son at a Doctor’s Request, then Google Labeled Him a Sex Offender

“strong-armed” the (CDC) and school districts to “keep schools closed,” “passed resolutions affirming , and radical gender theory,” and is currently “orchestrating strikes nationwide, which will cause further learning loss.”

In an ongoing investigative series, City Journal contributing editor Christopher F. Rufo

The union’s own accounting, it spent $66 million on political activities. Another $117 million spent for primarily political contributions

stop the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl and defeat the Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for the vast majority of the fentanyl that is being trafficked in the United States

Are you ready to partner with parents to help shape the faith of their teenagers? What is your plan? How are you going to encourage and equip them?

Why remain in such a low-pay, high-pressure position? Why not escape to get a “real job” in ministry, a job where you are loved and respected? And where the pay is more than the typical barista’s?

16% of Americans in a new Gallup poll reported smoking marijuana, up from 12 percent last year and more than double the all-time low of 7 percent

The Wharton analysis of the

What is so troubling is that, not only did Biden circumvention Congress with the constitutional control of the purse, but this plan has divided the nation.

“Protestants in this area are probably the most liberal. But if they’re Catholic — conservative…You don’t hire them.”

Only 7% of liberal students were concerned about how their professor’s ideology would affect their grades while that rate is 6 times higher for conservatives at 42%

The poll captures the rising intolerance on our campuses. It has become an article of faith among many students who seek to cancel speakers and professors who hold opposing views

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