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Insight for Today's culture

Righteousness [One Minute Feature]

Train your kids early the real meaning of love and righteousness and they will grow up prioritizing their spirit over their flesh.

Teaching your children the importance of love and righteousness has become difficult to teach in our culture today. Do you believe in teaching the true meanings of love and righteousness? Do you see children look upon material things as love or do they understand the true meaning of it?

Love and Righteousness

The term righteousness is not used anymore these days even in the church. Love is a term we hear regularly but it’s not always properly defined. If we train our kids from an early age about the importance of love and righteousness and properly define them both, they will not be foreign concepts to our kids when they get older.

To many parents focus on Junior’s honor and material prosperity in life too often at the expense of genuine love and righteousness. But when Proverbs 21:21 says, he who pursues love and righteousness finds life, prosperity, and honor, it’s not the other way around. It’s the matter of prioritizing the spirit of our kids over the flesh.

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Slugger-less [One Minute Feature]

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefor shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. Proverbs 20:4

In today’s society our kids think in digital mode, so getting them to plan for the future seems to be getting harder and harder. What are some ways that you believe can help teach your children to plan for the future?

In Season

Getting teenagers to look and plan ahead has always been a challenge. Proverbs 20:4 says, a slugger does not plow in season so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing. So how do we foster responsibility in our teens. Well, give them some responsibility. As teens, it’s not only what they need, deep down it’s what they want. It makes them feel needed and adult-like.

Let them do your grocery shopping, absurd you say? I don’t think so. Let’s change that Proverb to say, a slugger that doesn’t shop in season so at mealtime he looks and finds nothing. It’s the principle we are looking at here. In all my years, I have learned kids will do what is required of them to do.

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Raising Strong Daughters with Meg Meeker Part 1 [Podcast]

When Behavioral terms have no real meaning anymore, then that becomes the ingredients for confusion and chaos in the minds of our children.

It is not an easy job being a parent to any child, but even harder being a parent to a daughter. What are some parenting techniques you use to raise a daughter in our toxic culture? Are you discussing with your daughters about today's vial sexual …

Moral Priority [One Minute Feature]

The moral value of marriage no longer exists in our ever so changing culture. This could only lead to the extinction of the moral value of life if we continue to let it.

In our society today, it seems that you can do whatever you want no matter the devalue of morals in what has happened, such as adultery. How are you teaching your children to obey not only the laws of the land, but the law of God? Do you believe it is still wrong to cheat on your spouse and are you teaching your children the value of marriage?

Contract of Marriage

Recently it was reported a man took a video to prove his wife was cheating on him, now he iss in danger of jail time. It use to be that if one spouse caught the other in the act of cheating, the offended spouse could legally shoot both offending parties dead in the bed. This was called a crime of passion, and that was taught in my 1978 criminal law class.

On the internet, you can see a mugshot of Frank Sinatra, arrested in the 1940s for adultery. But America no longer sees the sanctity of marriage with the clarity it used to. In no way am I advocating violence of any kind. I am simply making the point that marriage isn’t held in the same high regard anymore and that's affected our kids as negatively as anything else.

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Generalities [One Minute Feature]

Teach your children how to think and not what to think and society’s brainwashing will have no power over their minds.

Our society today has begun teaching our children that it is wrong to even state facts anymore because it may offend someone. How are you teaching your children the opposite without offending anyone? Is this even possible?

How to Think

We must keep our kids from being brainwashed into politically correct, but logically factually incorrect ways of thinking. It’s hard to speak in generalities anymore without offending someone. But our kids should know that we must be able to speak in generalities without having to qualify our every statement or communication is lost.

But that is right where we are at today. If I were to say that Chinese people are shorter than Americans, someone is sure to use the fallacious argument that I am a bigot, because Chinese and NBA player, Yao Ming, is 7’6. If the truth remains even with Yao Ming in the equation, then Chinese people on average are still shorter than Americans. Let’s teach our kids how to think not what to think.

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Nothing New [One Minute Feature]

To this generation, it is easy for them to forget that it is the generations of the past that have built the history that helped discover the phenomenas of today.

If the power was to go out and the batteries died in our kid's smartphone, how do you think they would react? Do you think that they would have the intelligence to survive without looking it up on their smartphone? With that simple question, do you as a parent understand how important it is that your child has the knowledge without the digital brain.

Digital Brain

Because of their lack of historical knowledge, many kids today think their generation is the smartest generation in history thanks to Google and the smartphone. As a humbling reality check, let’s remind our kids that the smartphone is a device that was built on the knowledge and the intelligence of historical figures that today's kids often consider to be backward.

Ask your kids how smart they would be if the power went out because those backward folks and the generations that preceded them had no smartphones to help build the smartphone. But what they had was the knowledge of and a respect for history to build upon. It was President Truman that said, “there’s nothing new in the world except the history that you don’t know.” Smart man...

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The Blame Game [One Minute Feature]

As parents we should teach our kids to take personal responsibility for their own actions. If not, they will learn to blame others for their own doing.

In our society today, do you believe that we are tolerant of everything? DO you think that we jump to blame before resourcefully finding out the truth?

Blame of Tolerance

We live in a world of both tolerance and blame, but does it not seem a bit oxymoronic to tolerate anything and then blame others for everything. when we don’t like what hyper tolerance has actually helped to create. This insanity is bringing confusion and anxiety to our kids.

Blaming others when we should be taking on the responsibility to address and fix the problems at hand isn’t building character in our kids or in us for that matter. From race relations to disaster relief, our kids see the media also blaming others before seeking wise and logical solutions. So for their character's sake let's teach our kids to exchange blame for personal responsibility in the light of objective truth.

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