Teens

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  3 Ways to Combat the Teen Mental Health Crisis Teens’ mental health is in crisis. We can see how the aftermath of walking through a global pandemic, coupled with the effects of a more digital world, have led to an explosion of mental health-related...
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  10 Dos and Don'ts of Helping Your Child Learn to Adult In fact, 1 in 3 adult children, ages 25- to 34-years-old, live at home according to a new report from the Census Bureau. Steve Arterburn Apr 12, 2023
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  What Do I Do When My Teen Doesn't Want to Attend Church? Be reminded that the unwavering prayer of a parent is powerful. You will witness the gradual transformation of your child's character in due time–because a steadfast prayer that is aligned with God’s will... Liz Pineda Apr 10, 2023
• 10 Things Your Teen Does (and Doesn’t!) Want from You Proverbs 22:6 (NKJ) says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it."Engaging with your teenager can often feel like one might approach a bear—very carefully,... Betsy St. Amant Apr 05, 2023
• 7 Dating Guidelines for Your Kids You may be tempted to expressly forbid them from any form of interaction with members of the opposite sex before they are well into their twenties. But guess what? Doing that may cause them more harm than... Keren Kanyago Apr 03, 2023
• 5 Ways to Engage Millennials and Gen Z in the Local Church Gone are the days when families drove to church in their Sunday best and went to Wednesday night Bible study. While this might have been a priority at one time in our history, it is no more. In an age when... Michelle S. Lazurek Mar 20, 2023
• 6 Ways to Connect More Deeply with Your Teen If they fall and fail, let them learn a lesson. While it may be heartbreaking and difficult to witness, this can also be when God shows up the most in their lives! So, bring out your greatest weapon –... Alicia Searl Mar 15, 2023
• 5 Important Prayers for the Next Generation of Believers I know you’ve said it before – or at least thought it: “I wouldn’t want to be raising children right now with the direction this world is going.” “I worry what my grandchildren will grow up believing.” “If... Cindi McMenamin Mar 13, 2023
• What to Do When Your Teen Shuts You Out In Abba, we see one of the crux truths in all of parenting: our job is not the outcome; our job is the input. Hard though it may be when we feel shut out by our older kids, when we choose to love them as a... Elizabeth Spencer Mar 08, 2023
• 5 Ways the Church Can Effectively Engage with Gen-Z The often hokey attempts at entertaining the kids they were trying to keep around was not what kept me in the church. It was truth, community, and more than anything, a purpose and call to God’s... Jason Soroski Mar 06, 2023
• 4 Reasons Younger Generations Have Left the Church If Christians are no more than present-day Pharisees, why should the younger generation even consider attending church? Vivian Bricker Mar 01, 2023
• What Culture Is Teaching Our Kids about Sexuality: 7 Ways to Respond As spiritual mentors for Gen Z and beyond, we must lovingly and logically challenge this relativistic mindset because it cannot bear the weight of scrutiny. Feelings provide a faulty foundation. Though... Erin A. Barry Feb 27, 2023