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Helping Hurting Kids 5
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 17, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week we’ve been looking at some of Dr. Marv Penner’s strategies and skills for helping hurting kids. Marv has developed a set of skills based on the acronym L.O.V.E. The letter E calls us to quick action, by taking steps to eliminate immediate dangers. Many hurting kids are involved in beha...
Helping Hurting Kids 4
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 16, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week we’re looking at some of Dr. Marv Penner’s strategies and skills for helping hurting kids. Marv has developed a set of skills based on the acronym L.O.V.E. The letter V calls us to validate what’s happening in the lives of hurting teenagers. Many kids in pain have been told that their ...
Helping Hurting Kids 3
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week we’re looking at some of Dr. Marv Penner’s strategies and skills for helping hurting kids. Marv has developed a set of skills based on the acronym L.O.V.E. The letter O refers to what we offer students who choose to risk sharing their hearts with us. They’ve come to us because they bel...
Helping Hurting Kids 2
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 14, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week we’re looking at some of Dr. Marv Penner’s strategies and skills for helping hurting kids. Marv has developed a set of skills based on the acronym L.O.V.E. The letter L concerns listening, the most fundamental skill needed by anyone working with wounded kids. Many teenagers are convinc...
Helping Hurting Kids 1
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 13, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week I want to talk about responding to hurting kids, and some great lessons that I’ve learned from my good friend, Dr. Marv Penner. For years, Marv has been equipping youth workers, counselors, and parents to understand and help kids who are experiencing brokenness in their lives. The fact...
Honor Your Father and Mother
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 10, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis weekend we celebrate Mother’s Day. As Christians, this day should bring to mind the fifth commandment, which reads, “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.” Over 40 years ago, Dr. John Huffman wrote this about the 5th comman...
Phones and Loneliness
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 09, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsNearly half of today’s teenagers say that they are on their phones and online almost constantly. The Pew Research Center surveyed a cohort of teens, ages thirteen to seventeen, along with parents, back in the fall of last year. The findings are interesting and helpful as we consider how to best ...
Why Kids Say They Use Drugs
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 08, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf you grew up through your own adolescence ten, thirty, or fifty years ago, you remember what it was like to encounter and try to navigate peer pressure. Throughout the decades, peer pressure was often a top or the number one reason teenagers gave for choosing to experiment with alcohol and dru...
Parental Spiritual Progress
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 07, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsI recently read these words from pastor Alistair Begg: “No church of Jesus Christ progresses beyond the spiritual progress of its leaders.” While those words are important for those in church leadership, I got to thinking about just how true they also are for leadership in the home. As parents, ...
Boys and Eating Disorders
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 06, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsA study published late last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that there has been sharp increases in the rates of hospitalizations for boys with eating disorders. This is news that we all must pay attention to, as historically, eating disorders have been portrayed as ...
Leading Kids Onto the Path of Life
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 03, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe famous theologian, Augustine, once said this: “This is the authentic happy life, to set one’s joy in you, grounded in you and caused by you.” After many years of wandering and struggle as a young man, God took hold of Augustine’s heart and called Augustine to Himself. It wasn’t long after th...
You Want To Be What When You Grow Up?
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 02, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsI was recently thinking back over what I had planned to do when I grew up. Why? I was reading about what one survey calls one of the most desirable career options kids are thinking about in today’s world. Are you wondering what that job is? It’s a job that wasn’t even an option just two decades ...
Delta-8 THC and Our Kids
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - May 01, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsImagine walking today into a twelfth grade English class at your local high school. You stand in the back of the room, undetected, and look around at the twenty students who are seated at their desks. According to the latest research, you can correctly assume that two out of these twenty student...
Puberty Blockers and Gender
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 30, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAs conversations in our culture continue over how to navigate the increased traction the transgender ideology is getting among our kids, we should be paying attention to what is happening across the pond in the U.K. The world’s largest gender clinic has been the Tavistock clinic in Britain. Heal...
The Benefits of Suffering
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 29, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsParents, what are you teaching your kids about the presence of pain and suffering in their lives? Are you preparing them to face whatever difficulties life may bring by immersing themselves in what the Scriptures teach about the formative role adversity plays in our lives? In Psalm one-hundred-n...
Parents and Phone Distraction
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 26, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsEver since the smartphone debuted back in 2007, I have encountered a growing number of parents who lament how much time our kids are spending on their smartphones, and the way that time has undermined their teenager’s well-being. There’s a growing amount of data that supports these concerns, and...
Seriously Serious Faith
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 25, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsEvery now and then I run across a challenging quote about the Christian faith from someone who does not embrace the Christian faith. And every now and then, these quotes serve as a wake-up call or much needed punch in the gut. That was certainly the case when I encountered this quote from author...
Dangers of Drug Abuse
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 24, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBeginning way back in 1975, the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research has been surveying high school students on their behaviors regarding drug and alcohol abuse. The survey launched when it was recognized that the 1960s had brought a widespread epidemic of illicit drug use amon...
The Dangerous Lie of Making Yourself
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 23, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat does the cultural narrative tell us and our kids about what we are to believe about who we are? How and where do we find our identity? Is who we are a given? Or is who we are someone or something we have the responsibility and privilege to create? In her helpful new book, “Self-Made: Creati...
Christ Our Passover
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 22, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf you have a calendar on your wall that lists holidays, you will notice that today begins the Jewish remembrance of the Passover. This annual holiday celebrates the escape of the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery, a story that is recounted in Exodus chapter twelve. The name Passover includes ...
Parenting for Deep Faith
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 19, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMy friend, youth pastor and writer Mike McGarry, offers some great advice to youth workers and parents on how to prepare students for a lifelong faith. This is important to consider as the research consistently points to the fact that far too many kids are not only graduating from high school, b...
Teen Abstainers
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 18, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe latest edition of the Monitoring the Future National Survey on drug use among our teenagers, cites good news that I would like to pass on to you today. The survey, which has been conducted annually since 1975, offers some encouraging data on what the survey labels as “abstainers.” Abstainers...
Sports Idolatry
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 17, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWith March Madness now being over for about a week, it’s a good time to think about the place sports holds in our lives. Some recent data from the Pew Research Center offers five facts about Americans and sports. First, about half of Americans say they took part in organized, competitive sports ...
Pop Stars and Abortion Pills
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 16, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsDo you think that pop music has an influence on the values, attitudes, and behaviors of our kids? The truth is that it’s not just the lyrics that influence, but the high-profile lifestyles and stories of the pop stars themselves. Popular singer and Grammy award winner Olivia Rodrigo is one star ...
Kids and Government
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 15, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf I remind you that today is known as tax day here in the United States, some of you will breath a sigh of relief that you have completed the tedious work of pulling your tax returns together. Others of you, if you’ve forgotten about today, might now be panicking over your procrastination. What...
Dangers of Porn 5
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 12, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsToday, we wrap up our look at the categories of Pornographic Style of Relating, or PSR, that Dr. Andrew Bauman tells us undermine God’s good desire for our sexuality and human flourishing. After the first four categories of control, objectification, speed, and hunger, Bauman cites a fifth: isola...
Dangers of Porn 4
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 11, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsToday, we continue our look at the categories of Pornographic Style of Relating, or PSR, that Dr. Andrew Bauman says undermine God’s good desire for our sexuality and human flourishing. After the first two categories of control and objectification, comes a third category, speed. He writes, “the ...
Dangers of Porn 3
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 10, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsYesterday, I told you about Dr. Andrew Bauman, a Christian counselor whose own experience and study on the effects of pornography has reported on the dire effects of pornography on young men and young women. Bauman has written about the development of what’s called a pornographic style of relati...
Dangers of Porn 2
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 09, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIt’s no secret that our kids are being misinformed and misshaped by the pervasive presence of online pornography in today’s world. Because they are sexual beings who are naturally curious about their developing God-given gift of sexuality, we should be instructing them in age appropriate ways ab...
Dangers of Porn 1
Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller - April 08, 2024 04:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOne of our greatest concerns about smartphone use among children and teens relates to pornography. With ninety-five percent of teens having access to a smartphone, we should be concerned about exposure to pornography, either intentional or unintentional, along with both the short and long-term e...
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