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Insight for Today's culture

Undivided [One Minute Feature]

“Teach me Your way, O Lord, and I will walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.” Psalm 86:11

In today’s society, parenting seems to get harder and harder with every generation. When parenting your kids, are you more lenient on your kids than your parents were on you? Do you raise your kids from the worldview or God’s view?

Godly Parenting

Today there are as many parenting approaches as there are belief systems. Pop psychology has many approaches influencing not just secular parenting experts, but Christian ones too. Yet, in many cases, they contradict the principles and mandates of scripture, and often, with devastating results.

Psalms 86:11 says, “teach me Your way, O Lord, and I will walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.” So, when it comes to parenting, do we fear violating popular views more than God’s view? Worldly views lead to worldly results, so let’s keep our hearts undivided and raise our kids with God’s view in mind.

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Continuum [One Minute Feature]

As the old saying goes, “there is a time and place for everything,” and that includes our emotions.

In our culture today, our children need to see our imperfections, but just not all the time. As a parent are you truly yourself in front of your children? Do you let them see the emotions behind that person they look up to?

Extreme Emotions

I think there’s wisdom in allowing your kids to see the full continuum of your personality and your emotions. Too much of either extreme, however, can be harmful to your kids’ emotional well-being. I see so many parents who are afraid of getting angry, getting silly, or perhaps even crying in front of their kids. This really is not a problem.

The problem is when our extreme emotions become the norm, like the parent who’s always “flying off the handle”, always crying, or always doing something inappropriate or just plain silly. Your kids need to see you angry once in a while, but controlled anger. There are times to cry or be silly, but life is about balance and this balance is the best way to bring emotional health to your kids.

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Too Much [One Minute Feature]

Not only is the internet full of false information, it also has become an idol to our children searching for something they will not find searching the web.

Too much of anything can be a bad thing, especially when it comes to technology and our kids. Do you monitor the time your kids spend on the internet, phones and gaming? Is there down time for technology for everyone in your household, even parents?

Stick To It

When you had a few tools and supplies in your garage you not only knew where to find them all, you knew how to properly use them all. Then, over time, you acquired a lot more tools and supplies and that’s when you had trouble actually finding what you needed, so you go to the hardware store and buy what you swore you already had only to stumble upon the thing a month or two later.

The point is that too much of anything can be as exasperating and debilitating as not enough. The internet is like that. Our kids are flooded with content, much of it false, and it’s proving to be just as exasperating and debilitating as not having it at all, because to cite George Bernard Shaw, false knowledge really is more dangerous than ignorance. Talk to your kids about that.

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Foundations Two [One Minute Feature]

In spite of what today’s culture says, the biblical foundations of family still work today.

Having a Godly foundation may not be politically correct, but it is the correct way to raise your children. Do you believe that you have a good foundation to stand on when raising children? Do you stick to the foundation in which you believe is Godly?

Stick To It

Last time I talked about the importance of having foundations for life and child-rearing, but it seems that in recent times we have bought into the politically incorrect lie that the parenting foundation of Godly discipline is actually abuse. That training our kids what they ought to do is narrow-minded and expecting too much though both things can be abusive if not tempered by the holy spirit and a biblical worldview.

Let no one detour you from the righteous biblical foundations that demand you properly govern and train your kids with high behavioral expectations and start young. This doesn’t make you unrighteous, just the opposite. For Psalm 11:3 says, when the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?

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Pop Culture with Tina Maria Griffin [Podcast]

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:2

Can you imagine in our culture today that so many musical artists do not believe in Christ? Do you see how the media glamorize evil in our world? Do you think they are brainwashing our children with today’s pop culture? Tina Marie Griffin grew up …

Blossomed [One Minute Feature]

Our culture has become dependent on digital technology that if it were to shut off, people would literally be hysterical and would not know what to do, especially our kids.

Are we reaping what we as a society have sown? Do you believe that the moral standards that we once knew are no longer valued by our society?

What We Have Sown

I was talking with an expert about what digital technology is doing and has done to our kids, a PHD in fact. We agree that the anarchy that we are seeing as a form of cognitive dissonance and the absence of logical consistent thought with no objective moral standards. What we are seeing are the adult products of a generation of kids who have amused themselves into imbecility with the foolishness of one another's ignorance, lies and advice on the internet. Add to that a full childhood of violent video games. We saw these days coming and now we are giving all these disconnected thoughts and logic for sake of adult kids of the new millennium free range to take their warped worldview and ruin everything that past heroes have freely given them.

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No Shame [One Minute Feature]

To be ashamed of yourself for being in the wrong is natural but in today’s culture it doesn’t exist.

As a culture, we have seen the emotion of shame disappear. Do you believe that kids are less shameless today? Do you believe being ashamed is wrong?

Shame on You

There has been a lot written about the effects of shame. Too many Christian writers have bought into the faulty secular psychological theory that shame is always a bad thing. Consequently, too many parents have too. But shame is a God-given emotion that actually plays as a positive role in our lives in its proper context.

Shame is like fire and water, that it can be destructive in one context, while productive in another, but that’s not what we have been taught. It’s the mistake we make when biblical concepts, definitions, and standards get forsaken and twisted surrendered to secular theory. You think the Antifa rioters are ashamed of their actions, not in your life, but they should be.

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