About a year ago, USA Today ran an article entitled: Has the sun set on Sunday school? After taking some time to report on the inception and original purpose of Sunday schools, the author cites a couple of reasons why Sunday school is on the decline: 1. Families are too busy. Parents and kids, as […]
Category Archives: Culture
Dear Parents, “Please Challenge Your Children (and Yourself)”
Dear Parents, I was recently talking to a mother of a 7th grade student who was sharing with me that her son didn’t want to come to Sunday school and Youth group at church. “Every Sunday morning and every Wednesday evening is a battle,” this Mom shared. “I make him go, even when he doesn’t […]
Kid Tech Infographic
Here are a few things that caught my attention: “Nearly half of first-time mobile tech users aren’t even in kindergarten yet.” Speaking from first-hand experience, my two girls are very adept at handling an iPhone and an iPad. We have to monitor the input and the frequency, but the interaction with these digital devices is […]
“I Really Want You to Have a Cell Phone, too!”
Hayward Wesleyan’s discipleship pastor, Heath Davis, and myself have been trying to engage our church (and the community) in conversations about technology. We have learned a lot. During one of our conversations, we were talking about kids are getting cell phones younger and younger. One father shared a remarkable exchange he recently had with his 5th […]
Children Can Handle More than We Know
Teach children their dependence upon the Holy Spirit to work in their lives
Questions Children Ask about God and the Bible
I’m always trying to exegete our current culture—both the good and the bad—to get an idea what affect it is having on the children and teenagers I and our small group leaders interact with on a weekly basis. Culture is always a moving target than I’m trying to understand. So I wondered where our children […]
20 Things to Know About Today’s Kids
A video compilation about today’s kids.
Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives
There is a seminal article written a while back called: Digital Immigrants and Natives by Marc Prensky, that has vast implications on how we teach, parent and disciple children and teenagers. This post consists of notes from a lecture by Kristin Anderson @ Bethel Seminary back in 2007 (which, for conversations on the current digital landscape might […]
Technology and Us (and our Kids)
The television. Also known as: the TV. Love it or hate it, the TV has been an influential force in the last hundred years. From its early, crude transmitted silhouette images, to black and white with no sound, and then eventually sound, and later into color and recently high definition sets that hang on the […]
Modern Family Infographic
The study of 2000 Brits was commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to mark the release of Modern Family Season 3 on DVD and Blu-ray. Results that stand out: Average amount of family time per day [marker]2:55 minutes[/marker] Average amount of TV per day [marker]5.2 hours[/marker] Average family sleeps well. Kids go to bed […]