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On Demand Media with Phillip Telfer [Podcast]

The days of 3 TV stations and no remotes are truly over and now it’s media, 24 hours a day in the palm of our hands. The addiction is real and all too common in our society, especially with our kids.

With today’s technology, kids have access to on-demand media choices. Do you monitor what your child is watching? Are you teaching them to make wise choices to protect their spiritual lives? Phillip Telfer has ministered to youth and families …

Ministry through Media with Alex Kendrick [Podcast]

When we think of ministry, we generally think of what goes on inside the local church. Websters defines ministry as a person or thing through which something is accomplished. So it is possible that accomplishing true Christian ministry might be best accomplished outside the local church.

So could movies, music and other tools outside the local church be effective tools of ministry? Could they actually help us be more efficient and effective inside the walls of the church? Today, we speak with someone who is doing just that. Alex …

Practical Parenting with Josh Temple [Podcast]

Last time on License to Parent we spoke with Joshua Temple, an insider at Shepherd’s Hill Academy. If you missed that episode, you can listen to it online Here.

Today we continue the conversation and dive into parenting troubled teens and some of the mistakes parents make along the way. One such mistake includes trying to become friends with our kids. That will come, but first is a process and a period of …

Glow Kids with Nicholas Kardaras [Podcast]

Why is it that so many of our kids seem to be accepting distorted and illogical ideas, attitudes, actions and values that are opposite to the things we’ve taught them, and it seems, the things that traditionally have been considered good, wise and profitable for human well-being and fulfillment? Have you also noticed that today’s kids are easily bored and have become more & more superficial, shameless, self-absorbed? Could today’s proliferation of digital technology actually play a role in any of this?

Metaphorically speaking, today's kids are born with digital DNA. Yet, as more science is understood about this issue, the more this metaphor may actually be closer to reality. It may not only explain our kids' extreme aversion to boredom; but, also …

Four Battles Every Young Man Must Face with Jonathan McKee [Podcast]

We live in a time when the pursuit of short-term gratification at the expense of long-term benefits isn’t as frowned upon as it used to be. Perhaps it’s because there are just so many short term pleasures and exciting things readily available and at our fingertips these days; literally at the push of a button.

And, when so many of these instant pleasures avail themselves at every turn without any peer pressure to resist, then, like sheep to the slaughter, it can be just too easy to allow our emotion to cloud our reason and proceed with something that we'll …

Assassination Generation with Dave Grossman [Podcast]

It’s been a debate for several decades now. Do violent TV programs, movies, music—but particularly, violent video games have any link to teen violence or rebellion? Do these things have any link to the ever-increasing mass shootings we’re seeing in schools and other public venues across America today? Since the evidence and the studies seem to affirm this notion, could this be part of the reason why so much of our Christian nurturing, as parents, seems to have had a zero-sum impact on the habits, attitudes and behaviors of so many of our kids?

I asked a group of our SHA kids how many had armed guards in their schools. About 75%—80% of their hands went up. Several more knew a school near them where a shooting had happened; and, one student had a shooting take place in the very school she …