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Youth Culture Today is a 60-second daily radio spot from CPYU and Walt Mueller, now available as a podcast. It provides a quick glance into the world of teenagers and today's youth culture f...
Somewhere there’s an assumption flying around that Christian kids are somehow immune from being vulnerable to the growing tide of negative i...
Parents, some new research on the effects of social media, screen time, smartphone use, and videogaming on eleven to twelve year olds warran...
One of the cultural pressures that’s trickling down quickly from our adult world into the world of children and teens is what’s become known...
I was fortunate to have Christian parents who modeled Christ-like grace in our home. When I think of my parents’ grace, one specific instanc...
Would you agree with this sentence: “It is becoming common knowledge that social media use has led to harmful psychological consequences, in...
All this week we’ve been looking at how smartphones are cutting into the sleep time our kids desperately need, and what we as parents must d...
All this week we’re looking together at how smartphones are cutting into the sleep time our kids need, and what we as parents must do to rem...
All this week we’re looking together at the issue of how smartphones are cutting into the sleep time our kids desperately need, and what we...
All this week we’re looking together at the issue of how smartphones are cutting into the sleep time our kids desperately need, and what we...
Are you a parent who laments the fall-out from smartphones and how they’ve permeated and changed not only youth culture, but your very own c...
Our children need parents who will openly explain and discuss what is happening to their bodies as they pass through puberty. We live in a w...
One of the subtle, or maybe not so subtle, traps of social media is the way that we use it as a digital megaphone to trumpet ourselves. And...
I was recently at a social function where I asked a mother how her fifth grade daughter was doing. “Well”, the mom replied, “She’s a little...
Parents, did you know that understanding the world of your kids is a part of your parental calling? Youth workers, Sunday School teachers, p...
Meta is the company that owns Facebook and Instagram. While there might not be too many teenagers hanging around on Facebook these days, our...
Parents, today I want to ask you a question that you might find a bit odd. The question is this, Are you doing what you can to convince your...
Recently, the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence in El Paso, Texas, began raising awareness among their constituency about a new type...
One of the most essential lessons we need to teach our children and teens is that God calls them to be responsible stewards and caretakers o...
It’s a fact that many of you who are listening to my voice right now are weighed down under the burden of a child or grandchild who has ente...
Are you, like me, tired of all the boasting that goes on on social media? Are you tired of having to face the temptation of giving in to the...
As we get ready to celebrate power of the Cross and the Resurrection of Jesus this weekend, I want to ask you if you’ve taken any time to ta...
The TikTok video was titled, “Go to bed old, wake up hot.” The video is just one in the growing number of online tutorials posted by social...
For those of us who have experienced the death of someone we love, we spend more time thinking of them when the calendar turns to the annive...
It’s spring and the farmers are out in force prepping their fields and planting seeds with the hope and anticipation of a bountiful harvest....
The beverage coolers in one of our local quickmarts take up almost two entire walls. There’s everything in there from a variety of water pro...
Paul Kingsnorth has written an engaging and thought-provoking book on technology which serves to warn us by looking ahead to the dangers tha...
As a parent, what is your posture regarding how your kids will best navigate today’s youth culture? I want to warn you against two dangerous...
The title of a research study from the University of Hawaii recently caught my eye. The study title is this: “Frequency of Negative Adult Sp...
Are you aware that Time Magazine’s 2025 Person of the Year is actually a group, rather than an individual? Named as winner were the “Archite...
Parents, do you understand that seeing your kids come to Jesus is not just about belief, repentance, forgiveness, and eternal life? Somethin...
All this week we’ve been looking at barriers to lasting faith and the reality that far too many kids are leaving high school, home, and chur...
All this week we’re looking at barriers to lasting faith and the reality that far too many kids are leaving high school, home, and church, t...
All this week we’re looking at barriers to lasting faith and the reality that far too many kids are leaving high school, home, and church, t...
All this week we’re looking at barriers to lasting faith and the reality that far too many kids are leaving high school, home, and church, t...
Several years ago here at CPYU we began what we call our College Transition Initiative. This initiative was our response to the concern pare...
Several of my youth worker friends are reporting that many kids in their youth groups are feeling increased loneliness. The data supports th...
Parents, today I want to encourage you to have your family attend a church where the adults, teenagers, and children all worship together ra...
One of the slang terms you might hear male teenagers use these days is “homiesexual.” We all know that a homie is someone who is a close fri...
In his book Against The Machine , writer and thinker Paul Kingsnorth contends that thanks to digital technology and advances in AI, we are m...
Now that all of my children have moved out of adolescence, I’m realizing they didn’t come equipped with a switch or button that could be tri...
I was recently going through some old family photos from back when I was an elementary-aged boy. I came upon one picture that brought back m...
Blaise Pascal described a universal hole in the soul as a Godshaped vacuum. Alister McGrath describes Pascal’s model as “a God-shaped emptin...
The folks at Defend Young Minds have released some new data telling us that social media is now the most common way that kids are exposed to...
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is all the buzz right now. It’s come on the scene quickly, and so many are enamored with what it can do. For...
Raising children in the Christian faith is not an easy job. In fact, the more intentional we are about pointing our kids to Christ and equip...
As we finish up our week-long look at nurturing our kids away from materialism, here are some practical guidelines to help you address this...
Today we continue our week long look at steering our kids to the Lord, and away from the idolatrous trap of materialism. There is no quick w...
All this week we’re looking at how to help our kids see and run from the idol of materialism. We need to teach them that the accumulation of...
All this week we’re looking at how to push back on the idol of materialism. Materialism is fed by a marketing machine that it is estimated n...
All of us, parents and kids alike, are swimming in a cultural soup which promotes materialism. We are encouraged hundreds of times a day to...