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Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller

Youth Culture Today is a 60-second daily radio spot from CPYU and Walt Mueller, now available as a podcast. It provides a quick glance into the world of teenagers and today"s youth culture for parents, youth workers and others who care about kids and want to help them navigate adolescence in ways that bring glory to God.

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The Price and Reward of the Cross

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/04/11

Our children need to learn that doing what is right is not always the easy choice. In fact, when Jesus called his disciples to “come and follow me,” he was inviting them into a life that would be difficult. In the same breath, he told them to deny themselves and “take up your cross.” On the surface, Jesus seems to be calling us to a very unattractive and undesirable life. But in reality, it is a call to the most attractive and desirable life a person could ever live. We need to teach our kids by our

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Knowledge for Parenting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/04/08

What does it mean to be a Christian parent? One way to parent to the glory of God is to be prepared before any difficult parenting times visit your family. Here are some things to know to get you ready for those difficult times. Embrace a biblical theology of the sovereignty of God. Yes, God is in control of all things. Embrace a biblical theology of human depravity. Yes, all of us and all of our kids are fallen beings. Remember that in a sinful and fallen world there are no guarantees, even if we

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Proper Sex and Gender Education

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/04/07

Our children and teens are being educated on matters of sex and gender by a current cultural narrative that engages in 24/7 messaging, even to children as young as pre-school age. This education – or more accurately mis-education – takes God’s good gifts of sex and gender and distorts them in ways that undo God’s grand and glorious plan for our children and teens. The reality is that whoever speaks to a child first about sex and gender will set the bar for what is understood to be true, resulting in

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Whose Authority?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/04/06

As Christians, we are called to follow the way and will of God as contained in the Bible, which is the Word of God revealed and written as God’s authoritative rule for all matters of faith and practice. The culture teaches that we are to live under no other authority except the authority of ourselves. The cultural mantras “you do you” and “follow your heart” teach us to live under the authority of our own personal desires, feelings, and intuition. But God calls us to deny ourselves, and instead live

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Have Your Kids Seen Pornography?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/04/05

A recent article in Psychology Today reports what most of us already realize is true, the majority of today’s adolescents have seen pornography, either because they have gone looking for it, or it has gone looking for them. As parents called by God to nurture our children through childhood and into a spiritually healthy adulthood, we have the responsibility to be keenly aware of pornography’s presence, its compelling draw, and the impact it has on our kids. When it comes to pornography, what they

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Marijuana and the Teen Brain

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/04/04

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware of the growing legalization of marijuana and its acceptance for recreational use. According the 2021 Monitoring the Future Survey, thirty point five percent of high school seniors report using marijuana in the last year. Researchers have found that teenagers who only smoke marijuana occasionally, are just as likely to develop schizophrenia as those who smoke marijuana daily. Smoking the drug at these lower frequencies of less than twice a week,

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Desiring What Cannot Satisfy

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/04/01

Here are some wise words from Bernard of Clairvaux to share with your kids. He writes, “God alone can satisfy our desires. A man with a lovely wife may still look lustfully at an attractive woman. A well-dressed person wants more expensive clothes. The rich envy the richer. You can find people who already own much property and have many possessions, still striving, day in and day out, to add another field to their estates. They have a restless ambition for promotion and honors. It is not very

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Kids and Credit Card Debt

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/31

Did you know that overall, Americans owe eight hundred and seven billion dollars across almost five hundred and six million credit card accounts? As parents of children and teens, this reality should serve as a catalyst to discuss wise spending habits with a generation of kids who grow up thinking and spending as if piling up debt is normal. Credit card companies are actively seeking out our kids. I hear from many parents that their kids receive pre-approved credit card offers in the mail. For the

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What Kids Think about Oral Sex

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/30

Several years ago, I had a conversation with Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician who saw a significant number of teenage girls in her practice. I remember Dr. Meeker telling me about some of the frank conversations she was having with girls regarding oral sex. Many of them thought that it was not to be considered sex because it couldn’t result in a pregnancy. Others mentioned that they thought it was safe. Dr. Meeker would then proceed to inform the surprised girls that every sexually transmitted

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Helping Teens Choose Life

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/29

In her helpful book, Teens and Suicide, Recognizing the Signs and Sharing Hope, Christian counselor Julie Lowe lists ten reasons we should give our teens for why life is worth living. They are ten messages rooted in the Gospel that each of us need to hear on a regular basis. What are they? You are not alone. You have value. You are greatly loved. You can find help. Your life has purpose. You will not always feel this way. There is a good way forward, even when life is hard. You are more than your

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Smartphones and Loneliness in School

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/28

There is a sad irony in the fact that today’s children and teens have more tools at their disposal to stay connected with others, yet there is a growing epidemic of loneliness. New research from San Diego State University has found that the proportion of fifteen to sixteen year old teens who feel alienated has tripled over the last twenty years. Fully one-third of our teens say they feel alienated from their parents, which is up from ten percent in 2000. Researchers say these increases coincide with

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Teaching Kids Right from Wrong

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/25

How should we go about teaching our children right from wrong? Are there timeless moral standards which we are called to know, follow, and teach to our children and teens? As Christians, we know that we are called to teach our children the timeless truths of God’s word. The difficulty of doing so in today’s world is that they are receiving a twenty-four-seven education from the culture that rarely is rooted in the truths of God’s Word. Dr. Carl Trueman has captured the reality of what our kids are

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Suffering and Growth

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/24

A couple of years ago I watched an interview that got me thinking about a huge mistake we oftentimes make as parents. The interview was with former major league pitcher Jim Abbott. Abbott is best known as the guy who made it to the major leagues in spite of being born without a hand on his right arm. During the interview, Abbott talked about his physical disability, how he was taught to handle it growing up, and what he learned as a result of having to overcome his differences from others. Abbott

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God and Satan on Sex and Gender

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/23

Paul Tripp has said that the Bible’s four most important words about sex and gender are these from Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God. . .” This establishes God as the maker of all things, including sex and gender. He declared all things “good”, while establishing a purpose and plan for all things, including sex and gender. But very quickly, the first four words spoken by the enemy of God in Genesis 3:1 – “Did God really say. . . ?” - led our first parents into questioning God’s love and authority

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Some Surprising Facts on Smartphone Use

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/22

Sometimes I think that just hearing and considering some of the statistics on our smartphone use and dependence will cause us to sit up, take notice, and peel back from our growing dependence on our electronic devices. Knowing these facts should also remind us of the importance to set borders and boundaries for our kids. Six out of ten adults say that couldn’t cope without their smartphone if they were unable to use it for just one day. Fifty-five percent of adults believe that running out of

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CTE and Youth Football

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/21

Last month was CTE awareness month. If you’ve been tracking with us here on Youth Culture Today for any amount of time, you know that CTE stands for Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy a progressive brain condition caused by repeated blows to the head and repeated episodes of concussion. I listened in on a webinar conducted by the Concussion Legacy Foundation, featuring a report on updated research, along with testimonials from the family members of four former college and pro football players who were

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Is Religion a Bad Thing?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/18

One of the growing trends in the church has been an aversion to describing Christianity as a religion. Today, many Christians see the word religion as something harmful. The word is frowned upon as it’s believed it represents rituals, dogmas, and structures. In a recent article, Kevin DeYoung makes a case for keeping the word religion in our vocabulary and actually seeing it as something good. He reminds us that historically, looking down on the word is only a recent development. The word religion

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Pornography and Sex Ed

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/17

Defend Young Minds is an organization committed to helping parents and other caring adults give young children the information, skills, and mindsets they need to defend themselves against pornography and sexual exploitation. In a recent online call to action, Defend Young Minds reminded parents that during 2022, they must be especially vigilant in this task as exposure to pornography is, as they say, always just two clicks away. Parents are reminded that in today’s world, pornography is actually

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Our Kids Are Not Our Do-Overs

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/16

Your teen is not your “do over.” I was once at a high school football game where a father in the stands was screaming and yelling at his son out on the field. About halfway through the game, another man in the stands turned around and said, “Hey Bill, you’d think that was you out there on that field!” It took a split-second for Bill to heartily yell back his answer: “It is!” Too bad for Bill’s poor son. Bill should have named his son “Mulligan.” In today’s achievement-oriented and status-conscious

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Navigating Puberty in Today's World

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/15

Do you remember what it was you were feeling and experiencing when your body was transitioning from childhood to adulthood with what seemed like breakneck speed? It happened for me during my Junior High years and I was consumed with two questions: What is happening to me? And, what do I do with what is happening to me? I can’t imagine what it’s like to navigate puberty in today’s world. Television, film, and social media is pounding them with thousands of images and messages daily, each one

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