Teens

Proverbs 22:6  Direct your children onto the right path,     and when they are older, they will not leave it. (NLT) Out with the old…. I am approaching 2015 a bit melancholy. I knew my son’s senior year of high school would bring its mixture of pride, joy, sadness and tears. ...

Work is our design; it is our purpose.  Work us allows us emulate God: He still works—creating, unifying, restoring and healing!  We follow His example with work that is good for others, good for us and good for the Kingdom of God.  Do you hear his call to great, good ...

I remember trying to fit in. I tried to be cool, I tried to be fly, I tried to find my place in the pack, so to speak.  There weren’t a whole lot of kids who understood what speaking in tongues were, there weren’t many of us who spent our lunch hours having our own Bible study ...

More than ever before, faith and Christianity are being challenged, in the world at large, but even more so on college campuses.  Despite a study by Neil Gross and Solon Simmons and published in Sociology of Religion stating that the majority of college professors are not atheists or agnostics, and ...

“I’m nervous now when teens tell me they’ll be attending a Christian college,” a youth pastor recently told me. His statement was part of a discussion that confirmed the trend I’d observed with youth with whom I’ve kept in touch through the post-college years: many are walking away from their ...