By Walt Mueller A kid is a kid is a kid. . . or so I thought when I first got started in youth ministry. Somehow and some way, I missed the fact that each and every one of these precious image-bearers had a unique story. It wasn’t so much was I saw as I looked…
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By Walt Mueller Back in the summer of 2016, 17-year-old teenager Felix Alexander took his own life. Since then, his mother has dedicated her life to helping other parents understand the role that social media plays as the new “playground” for cyber-bullies, and the role cyber-bullying plays in making an already difficult transition from childhood to…
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*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on EurekAlert. Positive family relationships during adolescence appeared to be associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms from adolescence to midlife in a new observational study of about 18,000 adolescents followed up until they were 32 to 42 years old. The study examined differences between males…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on EurekAlert. Young people who are hooked on their smartphones may be at an increased risk for depression and loneliness, according to a new study from the University of Arizona. A growing body of research has identified a link between smartphone dependency and symptoms of depression…
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Dr. Jim Burns One of the ironies of parenting is that we have to give our kids freedom to fail in order for them to grow up. If you over-parent your teenager, your actions are shouting to her that you don’t believe she can succeed by herself. We must go through the process of releasing…
October 2019 Teaching Series for Middle School Small Groups What We’re Learning: In the Know A lot of people have a lot of different opinions about who God is and what He is like. Does God throw lightning bolts at us from the sky when we do something wrong, or does He love us no…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on ScienceDaily. Adolescents with higher levels of physical activity performed better in school during transition from primary school to lower secondary school than their physically inactive peers, a new study from Finland shows. However, the researchers, from the University of Jyväskylä, found that increased physical activity…