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Insight for Today's culture

Recount [One Minute Feature]

Reading scriptures will teach us of the judgment of sin, but also the blessing from God to his people.

In our culture today, so many people think there is no judgment for the sins they commit. What scriptures do you teach your children about the sins of the world and how they will be judged?

The Past In Our Present

Over and over in scripture, God asks his children to recall and recount what he has already done for his people and to the people of darkness. I think it would be wise for us to do the same thing with our children. Since culture has a pull on young people and ourselves for that matter.

Reading the first chapter of Romans with your kids would be a great start. You would be amazed at this chapter's similarities to American today. This is only one account of man’s sin and God’s judgment down through history. When we read Romans one and similar passages and scriptures our kids might just see that sin has never paid off and God is truly a holy God who both blesses and judges justly.

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Hate, Blame and Victim-hood with Jesse Lee Peterson [Podcast]

Teaching your children to rely on God for their worldview, moral character and to love and forgive others will help teach them the paths of maturity and independence.

Hate, blame, and victimhood have been taught to our children by our culture and are setting them up for a disastrous future. How can we as parents teach our children to see the brainwashing going on by our culture today? What are some of the steps to …

Intolerance with Sean McDowell [One Minute Feature]

It seems in our culture today when debate doesn’t work then the ideas are forced on you to tolerate.

In today’s culture instead of having debates, anyone with a different view is being silenced. Do you see the forcing of silence in our society? What are you teaching your kids when it comes to tolerance and intolerance and what is the difference today?

Force of Silence

“Those with a different view are being bullied to be silent. So what has happened is people are using power and just force to silent people with any kind of opposition, which destroys fruitful genuine debate. I mean Robert said in the Obergefell decision, “Look, by forcing this on the court those in favor of same sex mariage have actually lost the ability to have won the culture from within instead they have forced it from the top down.” I think he is right, that's what this new idea of intolerance and bigotry is and that is what is happening today.”

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Oil Change [One Minute Feature]

We should not just teach our kids the simple things, like sweeping the floor or to hammer a nail, but we should value the time that we are spending with them as well.

Some of the most simple things taught to our children can carry a sense of accomplishment that they do not get in our culture today. Thinking of how your dad taught you to change a tire or your mom showed you how to bake bread, what are some things you could teach your kids? Do you believe that the times have changed so much that these things are not necessary anymore?

The Simple Things

At Shepherds Hill Academy I am amazed at all the simple little things that were routine when I was a kid that today’s kids find fascinating. In today’s digital age not many kids work with their hands much anymore. Many kids do not know how to properly swing a hammer or use a hand saw to cut a board. Many can not read a simple tape measure or properly sweep the floor or clean a window.

Changing the oil in some of our camp vans made our boys feel useful and accomplished. When I sharpened a pencil in the shop grinding wheel, our boys thought that was the coolest thing they had ever seen. Let’s teach our kids some of these simple things. It will not be time wasted, but time well invested.

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I Love You [One Minute Feature]

Knowing how much your parents love you is so important to a child, no matter if it seems they can’t stand you or you are in the season of disliking them. Saying I love you no matter how you are feeling means so much more than we think.

We as parents sometimes just assume our kids know that we love them, but hearing it, could mean all the difference in the world. How often do you tell your kids you love them? Do your kids know that you mean it when you say it?

Three Simple Words

How often do you tell your kids that you love them? It is so easy in our hustle-bustle world to assume, neglect, forget, and otherwise, just fail to say those 3 simple little words to our kids, I love you. Don’t assume your kids know you love them.

You may be in a season where you don’t even like your kids but I will assure you telling them that you love them on a regular basis just might solve more character and behavior problems than you can imagine. Practice it in the mirror if you have to, but say it, they want and need to hear it from you. Don’t make it so robotic and cavalier that it becomes routine and meaningless, look your kids in the eye and mean it.

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Opportunity [One Minute Feature]

It’s important, especially in today’s time, to teach our children about the advantages of our economic opportunities here in America.

Our kids need to understand our history as the land of opportunity and why so many are still trying to get here for the American dream. Are you teaching your children the benefits of our free enterprise system? How are you explaining the difference between our country and those built on socialism and communism doctrine?

Land of Opportunity

Before your kids reach the teen years, teach them the benefits of our free enterprise system, which has taken quite a hit in times. Just the fact that a socialist like Bernie Sanders could garner so much support from young people should give us a rise for concern.

Our kids need to know the great history of our nation’s opportunity for career options compared to the demoralizing failure of socialism in Eastern Europe and the gross injustices associated with Red China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea. Ask your kids why aren’t people invading their borders to get in, but have never stopped trying to get into America. There is a reason we are called the land of opportunity.

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Speaking In Tolerance with Sean McDowell [Podcast]

True Freedom is not doing whatever we feel or want, but it’s having the capacity to do what is right by living according to God’s design.

In today’s post-modern and politically correct society that we live in, our kids are taught culturally a completely different definition of tolerance and intolerance than you were. Do you feel that we as parents tolerate our culture today? What do …