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A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World

We don’t have to lose the next generation to culture. In this practical guide, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle explore questions including: What unseen undercurrents are shaping twenty-first-century youth culture? Why do so many kids struggle with identity? How do we talk to kids about same-sex marriage and transgenderism? How can leaders steer kids away from substance abuse and other addictions? How can we ground students in the biblical story and empower them to change the world? With biblical clarity, this is the practical go-to manual to equip kids to rise above the culture.

A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World – Audiobook

We don’t have to lose the next generation to culture. In this practical guide, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle explore questions including: What unseen undercurrents are shaping twenty-first-century youth culture? Why do so many kids struggle with identity? How do we talk to kids about same-sex marriage and transgenderism? How can leaders steer kids away from substance abuse and other addictions? How can we ground students in the biblical story and empower them to change the world? With biblical clarity, this is the practical go-to manual to equip kids to rise above the culture.

Grandparenting Screen Kids: How to Help, What to Say and Where to Begin

Grandparenting Screen Kids is a grandparent’s guide to start bridging this gap. Relationship expert Gary Chapman along with coauthor Arlene Pellicane will help you understand this different (and often troubling) world of iPads, YouTube and video games. They will offer activities to keep your grandkids occupied without screens and assist you in navigating differences with your adult children.

Honest Prayers for Mama Bears

In the everyday battle of raising kids who love Jesus while living in a world that doesn’t, God invites you to come to Him. No cleaning up, no pretenses, no fancy words—all you need is to tell Him what’s truly on your heart and then ask for the wisdom, encouragement, and protection that only He can provide. From the bestselling team behind Mama Bear Apologetics® comes a one-of-a-kind book of prayers gathered from mamas just like you, speaking to the spectrum of seasons, concerns, and needs faced throughout Christian motherhood. You will become more vulnerable and intentional in your conversations with God as you pray in specific and timely ways for your family, your community, and even for yourself. Honest Prayers for Mama Bears puts words to the cries of your heart as you seek clarity and truth in today’s confused culture. Through these praises, confessions, thanksgivings, and petitions, you’ll lay your burdens at your heavenly Father’s feet and experience His comfort and hope as you entrust Him with your unedited thoughts.

Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality

Starting at a young age, kids are being fed damaging misinformation about sexuality, gender identity, and human biology. As a parent, it’s up to you to help your children understand God’s truth about these integral concepts in the face of the candy-coated lies that saturate today’s world. In the footsteps of the bestselling Mama Bear Apologetics comes this invaluable guide to training your kids to know and respect God’s design in a world that has rejected it. This book will equip you to understand God’s design for gender, sex, marriage, and family as a beautiful portrait that reveals the nature of God Himself, identify the tactics being used to trick children into adopting an unbiblical view of sexuality under the guise of Christian-sounding words like love, identity, tolerance, and justice, and teach your kids to treat those who hold different beliefs with gentle, Christlike compassion without compromising biblical values. As society continues to blur the lines of what is good, true, and acceptable, God’s standards remain clear and unchanging. This book will give you the wisdom to confidently raise your children to understand sex and gender through a biblical lens.

Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality and Gender Identity – Updated and Expanded

In today’s world, children are constantly exposed to confusing and often harmful ideas about sexuality, gender identity, and human biology. As a parent, it’s more crucial than ever to guide them with clarity and biblical truth, helping them navigate these challenging topics while honoring God’s design. The Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality and Gender Identity is an invaluable handbook for training your kids to know and respect God’s truth in a world that doesn’t. Expanded and revised with updated research and two brand-new chapters, this book will equip you to understand God’s design for gender, sex, marriage, and family as a beautiful reflection of His nature, identify the tactics that distort biblical sexuality under the guise of Christian-sounding words, such as love, identity, tolerance, and justice, and teach your kids to show Christlike compassion to others while upholding biblical truth. As society continues to blur the lines of what is good, true, and acceptable, God’s standards remain clear and unchanging. This book will give you the wisdom to confidently raise your children to understand sexuality and gender identity through a biblical lens.

Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality Discipleship Workbook

Talking to your children about gender, sexuality, and marriage can be challenging. But the difference between what the Bible and the world have to say about these topics can be a gateway to teaching them to love and cherish God’s sacred truth. This helpful study guide companion to Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality will prepare you to turn these tricky conversations into amazing opportunities for kingdom discipleship. Inside this workbook, you will find active reading notes highlighting vocabulary, themes, and questions that further your study of each chapter from Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality, highlighted verses from Scripture that illuminate the tender heart behind God’s design for sex and gender, and discipleship activities to help you engage your kids in age-appropriate dialogue about sensitive issues like homosexuality, transgenderism, pornography, and more. Perfect for individual and small group study, this workbook is the resource every Mama Bear needs to advocate for God’s truth with wisdom and confidence while equipping her children to understand His perfect plan for human sexuality.

Mama Bear Apologetics Study Guide

When your kids come home from school asking questions about everything from moral relativity to cultural Marxism to whether God even exists, you need to be prepared with biblically sound answers. With this user-friendly companion to the bestselling book Mama Bear Apologetics®, you’ll understand the secular worldviews your children face every day and build the foundation of faith and knowledge you need to equip them to respond to culture’s lies. Perfect for individual or group study, this study guide will help you examine more thoroughly the issues facing your children, and analyze them from a biblical perspective, discover practical ways to empower your kids with God’s wisdom for cultural challenges, and counter nonbiblical viewpoints with truth, love, kindness, and respect. Knowing what is true is the best way to argue against what is false. The Mama Bear Apologetics® Study Guide will ready you to be confident as you seek effective ways to help your kids stand strong.

Mama Bear Apologetics™: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies

Mama Bear Apologetics is the book you’ve been looking for. This mom-to-mom guide will equip you to teach your kids how to form their own biblical beliefs about what is true and what is false. Through transparent life stories and clear, practical applications – including prayer strategies – this band of Mama Bears offers you tools to train yourself, so you can turn around and train your kids.

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World’s Religious Traditions

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World’s Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world’s major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this important domain of life. It specifically and intentionally focuses on theological and philosophical perspectives from within religious traditions, creating space for the religious traditions to find their voices.

Parents Rising: 8 Strategies for Raising Kids Who Love God, Respect Authority, and Value What’s Right

Parents Rising provides real help for the real problems that parents face. In today’s world Christian parents are raising children in a culture that is not Christian-friendly and it can sometimes seem like a losing battle. In this book for parents and caretakers of teenage children or younger, Arlene Pellicane gives you eight strategies for raising kids who love God, respect authority, and value what’s right.

Pocket Prayers for Mama Bears: 100 Powerful Prayers

In the everyday battle of raising kids who love Jesus while living in a world that doesn’t, God invites you to come to Him—no pretenses or fancy words required. Featuring 100 select prayers from the original Honest Prayers for Mama Bears, this travel-friendly collection is small enough to take with you anywhere. Find solace and encouragement as you pray for your family, community, and even yourself. No matter where you are or what you face each day, these prayers will give voice to the cries of your heart and help you experience God’s comfort and hope.

Right from Wrong

According to Josh McDowell, our children are being raised in a society that has largely rejected the concepts of truth and morality. In Right From Wrong, McDowell offers hope and provides families and the church with a sound, thorough, biblical and workable method to clearly understand and defend the truth.

Screen Kids: 5 Skills Every Child Needs in a Tech-Driven World

Technology rules—but should it? Help wean kids off excessive dependence on screen time while acknowledging its benefits. Chapman and Pellicane present wisdom, science, and stories on fostering life skills while protecting and nurturing growing brains, establishing boundaries, recognizing warning signs, keeping youngsters safe online, and preventing social media from becoming their standard of success.

Shaped by God: Twelve Essentials for Nurturing Faith in Children, Youth, and Adults

Faith formation doesn’t just happen it’s a Spirit-led lifelong process of shaping and reshaping. In this accessible anthology, twelve experts share their perspectives on faith formation at home, in worship, in education, in intergenerational contexts, in people with developmental disabilities, and more. Indispensable reading for pastors, church leaders, education committees, parents, and educators.

Talking with Your Kids About God: 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have

Do you feel overwhelmed or uncertain about how to share your Christian faith with your children? Natasha Crain’s practical, easy-to-understand guide equips you to have 30 specific conversations that address the topics of God’s existence, scientific questions, the Lord’s character, religious beliefs, and the difference God makes in the world. Each chapter concludes with “Key Points” and a “Conversation Guide.” Adaptable for any age.

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