I'm grateful for my friend Troy Lamberth who produced this video: Preparing Your Teens for College is available for up to 50% off through March 3. … [Read more...] about Promo Video – Preparing Your Teens for College
Archives for February 2014
Preparing Your Teens for College
I'd like to say thank you to everyone who has already helped in some way to spread the word about my new book, Preparing Your Teens for College. It was the result of over 16 months of fairly intense work. It was a far harder book to write than Thriving at College, but I believe it has a far greater potential for fruitfulness. It's written to parents, youth pastors, guidance counselors, ministry leaders and anyone else involved in the great work of equipping parents to train their teens to leave home with the faith, character, and maturity to be successful not just in college but in the … [Read more...] about Preparing Your Teens for College
The High School That Will Get You a Job
Fantastic cover story on P-Tech high schools by Rana Foroohar in the latest edition of Time magazine. P-Tech high schools are six-year programs in which graduates earn both a high school diploma and an associate's degree. Thanks to industrial partnerships, they also graduate with a guaranteed job paying $40,000 or more (something only one in five 27 year olds, let alone 20 year olds, have today). Here's the opening: Sarah E. Goode is the name of one of the first African-American women ever to be granted a U.S. patent, in 1885, for a foldout bed that converted into a desk--a prescient object … [Read more...] about The High School That Will Get You a Job
Christians Get Depressed Too
David Murray, author of Christians Get Depressed Too: This series of films from HeadHeartHand Media presents five Christians with five very different stories of depression and of how God gave them hope and help to recover. Each 35-40 minute episode tells the story of one such Christian. Their reflections are intercut with interview footage from six counselors representing a wide range of Christian knowledge and experience. While the pain of depression is evident, the overall tone is hopeful and practical. We’re convinced that this holistic and biblical approach to depression will equip … [Read more...] about Christians Get Depressed Too
Louis Zamperini’s Amazing Story – Coming to the Big Screen
My wife read Laura Hillenbrand's breathtaking, runaway best-seller Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption when it came out in 2010. What's not captured in this title is that upon his return to America Louis Zamperini experienced the converting power of God's grace, which gave him a supernatural ability to love his enemies, even the man who had tortured him. The book is fantastic (from what I've heard) and I hope to read it myself soon. All the more so because this Christmas a major motion picture is being released (directed by Angelina Jolie). I hope the … [Read more...] about Louis Zamperini’s Amazing Story – Coming to the Big Screen
Let Them Come Home (John and Abraham Piper)
Abraham Piper (son to John and Noel Piper) spent four years as a young adult wandering from the Lord, at which time he was decisively saved. This essay he wrote sometime later would be useful to Christian parents wrestling with how to interact with their non-Christian adult children. He unpacks twelve principles: 1. Point them to Christ. 2. Pray. 3. Acknowledge that something is wrong. 4. Don’t expect them to be Christlike. 5. Welcome them home. 6. Plead with them more than you rebuke them. 7. Connect them to other believers. 8. Respect their friends. 9. E-mail them. 10. Take them … [Read more...] about Let Them Come Home (John and Abraham Piper)