Great List of Questions about Kids’ Sports and Church

I came across a great article filled with good questions for Christian parents to ask themselves about their various commitments to their local faith family (church) and to other entities such as kids’ sports teams (or replace team with “band” or “debate” or whatever…).  You can check out the full list of questions here, but [...]

Would you let this person teach your youth? How about your youth leaders?

(Post, in which I “go off”.  there’s not a lot of “logical flow here”, I admit up front.  But sometimes you see something and it just eats at you and you’ve got to say something even if few people read it. But the evangelical corporate church climate is just ridiculous and downright evil at times.) [...]

Francis Chan and “The Blind Side”

On Sunday nights, some of our youth have been working through a video series by Francis Chan called “Crazy Love” based on the book of the same title.   In chapter 4, Chan turns up the heat in the book, going after what he calls “lukewarm” Christianity (other terms like “cheap grace” (per Bonhoeffer) mentality might [...]

Problem with youth today…

Is the problem with today’s youth that they have rejected the professed beliefs of their ancestors… …or is that they have too readily and passionately embraced the ACTUAL beliefs of their parents and leaders? or to self-examine… what things do I love that will destroy the lives of those I influence?

Justification by Child-rearing…

I came across an interesting article in TIME magazine yesterday about the pushback against the so-called “helicopter parenting” that seems to be on the increase.  The article is here and is worth the four pages of reading. Feel free to comment on the article itself here as well. As a someone who has worked with [...]