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5 Tech Questions to Ask Every School Principal

For anyone with school-aged children, it’s back to school time! Many school buildings have spent the summer cleaning, upgrading, and in some cases, incorporating new technologies into their classrooms. As a father of four children spanning pre-school through middle school, I keenly understand the busyness that accompanies the school routine. Sports.…

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The Serious Comedy of Keith Deltano

Keith Deltano stands before hundreds of high school students mocking the locker-room talk so many guys engage in. Many male teens face the peer pressure to prove their masculinity by sleeping around: “When are you going to be a real man?” Deltano shouts, “You tell that loser: ‘My dog had…

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3 Challenges to Accountability with Your Kids (and How to Overcome Them)

Rather than let challenges to accountability frighten us away, we can anticipate potential problems and address them early on. By planning ahead, we can gain confidence to start needed conversations about pornography, sex, and healthy habits. Some of these challenges are related to our children but others are solely in…

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3 Critical Steps to Protect Children After Betrayal

For the woman who has experienced the devastation of betrayal, the pain runs very deep. Her life has been thrown into a tailspin. But as bad as this crisis feels, the anguish is compounded exponentially when children are involved. Seeing their young lives impacted so negatively only adds to the…

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"What Makes a Great Small Group Leader?" – Chapter Review

The following is a review of Chapter 4 of Why Small Groups? by C.J. Mahaney. This free e-book is available on the Sovereign Grace Ministries online store and is a helpful guide for accountability groups. . . . . There are many different kinds of Christian books. There are some…

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Why do teens sext?

Twenty percent of teens have sent or posted nude or semi-nude pictures or videos of themselves, either over the Internet or through cell phones. The question many adults are asking is what motivates this kind of behavior. A couple weeks ago danah boyd spoke at Columbia University for The ReadWriteWeb…

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Parents Make Little Headway in Porn Prevention Without Honesty

In my experience parents often become ineffective helping their children avoid pornography when they discover how honest they must be for that process to actually work. I’m not talking about the child’s honesty, but the parent’s. Too many parents have embraced a refusal to be real with their children as…

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Crucified with Christ: Overcoming Sin (Part 4)

“Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.” (C.S. Lewis) When Paul looked in the mirror, when he took a long, honest look at himself, he knew there was nothing good in…

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How to monitor teens online: A parental question in the digital age

When it comes to Internet safety, the early and middle childhood years can seem cut-and-dry for parents: set rules, monitor, block, filter. Easy. But as kids become teenagers, parenting can feel like uncharted waters—especially online. Two important facts, when mixed, often cause great confusion… The Internet is full of dangers…