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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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Peer Pressure 1

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/17

Without the accumulated wisdom, experience, and fully formed intellectual capabilities of adults, kids and teenagers are especially susceptible to negative peer pressure. They’ll often allow peer influence to eclipse rational judgment in the decision-making process. Negative peer pressure is frightening to parents because we remember facing it when we were kids. We don’t want our kids to make the same mistakes and bad choices we did. We want to protect them from the painful pull between doing what

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Burden Bearing for our Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/14

In Galatians 6:2 we are told to “bear one another’s burdens.” As one who has had burdens to bear, I’m so appreciative of those Christian brothers and sisters who step up to hold me up and to help me carry the load. Parents, your kids carry many burdens as a result of living in a difficult culture. Psychologist Dr. Diane Langberg, offers some great guidelines on how to bear burdens that can be applied to burden-bearing with our kids. The first thing you must give is your time. You cannot know your

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Instagram and Makeovers

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/13

While driving in my car recently I was listening to the local sports talk radio station out of Philadelphia. As a Philly native and longtime listener, I’m not all surprised by many of the outlandish and entertaining things I get to hear while listening. But I have been surprised by a commercial I’ve heard air several times over the last few weeks. The ad begins with a host of young and energetic voices all talking on top of each other. Then, this question is asked: “What do you want to be?” After

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Parenting and God's Word

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/12

From the moment they’re born, our kids need parents who tune themselves in to the most reliable source of parenting information and instruction. God has given us the Bible to guide us through these difficult and confusing days in our fallen world and rapidly changing youth culture. Our approach to parenting must be guided by God’s Word. Study the Bible with diligence so that you’ll fill a deep well from which to draw great wisdom, help, and advice. Discover what it says to the life-shaping messages

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Sex Ed and Roo

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/11

Parents, I want to tell you about a troubling sex education resource that’s available 24/7 to answer any questions your children and teens might about sex, sexuality, and gender. It’s Planned Parenthood’s onoline app called Roo. When accessing Roo, the app tells kids, “I’m here to answer your questions about bodies, sex, relationships, and more.” Roo is advertised as quote, free and private, so go ahead and ask the things you don’t want to ask out loud.” One of the most common questions asked of

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Teen Suicide

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/10

We continue to hear reports that rates of depression and suicide are on the rise among children, teens, and young adults. These ugly realities are no respecter of persons, touching Christian families and individuals as well. You and your kids are not immune. There are many preventive measures we can take as we hope and pray that the kids we know and love will be spared the anguish of depression. One of these measures is to constantly remind our kids that God is their source of strength in times of

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The Danger of Living by Feelings

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/07

Our kids are growing up in a feeling-oriented world. If you don’t feel something, it can’t be real. A few years ago I read Mother Teresa’s book, Come Be My Light. This collection of journal entries and letters indicates that for over fifty years Mother Teresa didn’t feel the presence of God. Perhaps what surprises me most is how much press the book’s message is getting as if her lack of feeling God is a surprise. Mother Teresa’s experience is normal. Emotions rise and fall, come and go, increase and

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The Latest on Kids and Sexting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/06

With the pandemic leading kids to spend more time online, it’s not surprising that researchers have found that from 2019 to 2020, there was a two-fold increase in children between the ages of nine and twelve reporting that they sent nudes and other self-generated sexual abuse materials. In fact, seventeen percent of all kids ages nine to seventeen say they have shared nudes. This increase was more pronounced among pre-teens and boys. One in four boys ages nine to twelve now say that is is normal to

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Communicating Biblical Truth

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/05

Parents, we need to use a combination of words Jesus uses quite often in the Gospels with our kids. On several occasions he tells his listeners, “You have heard that it was said. . .” followed by a faulty belief of the time. Then, he turns conventional “said” wisdom upside down with one of his Kingdom sayings that point listeners to the way that it really is, or at the very least, the way that it should be. He does so by following up with “But I tell you. . . .” These words tell us alot about the

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Phubbing

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/04

Today, I want to encourage us all to stop engaging in a practice known as “phubbing”. . . which is spelled p-h-u-b-b-i-n-g. Phubbing is a term that was first coined about ten years ago by an Australian advertising agency to describe the smart-phone induced practice of snubbing interaction with others in your physical presence by engaging with your phone. One study that is already five years old and likely outdated, found that more than seventeen percent of people admit to phubbing others at least

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Should Parents Snoop?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/03

Parents often ask me whether or not it’s appropriate for them to snoop around their child’s room, backpack, car, smartphone, texts, and social networking sites. While it’s important for a teenager to have a sense of private space, there is absolutely nothing wrong with invading that space if you have any suspicions at all that your child is engaging in immoral or dangerous behavior. If our teenagers are making decisions that are harmful, we must step in and do everything we can to protect them from

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Parent's New Year's Resolution

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/31

Parents, here’s a challenge to adopt a new years resolution that has you bent on gaining weight. No, I’m not encouraging to go against conventional new year’s resolutions and decide to eat more so that the scale in your home goes on overload. Rather, I’m encouraging you to resolve to weigh yourself down each and every day with the life-giving good weight of ingesting more and more of God’s Word into your mind and heart. As the great J.I. Packer once wrote, “Wisdom is divinely wrought in those, and

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Social Media's Negative Impact

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/30

In recent months, there’s been an increase in discussions regarding the negative impact of social media on our children and teens. I don’t find any of this surprising and I’m sure we will see these issues continue to mount. Research is showing the connection between increased amounts of time spent on social media, and a decline in mental health. There have been significant and measurable increases in suicide. Emergency-department admissions for self-harm have increased. For example, between 2010 and

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Allyship - Word of the Year

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/29

One of ways that you can keep up with changes in today’s youth culture is to check out the word of the year. As culture changes, words that are no longer relevant are removed from the dictionary, and new words that have found a place in conversation are added. The folks at dictionary.com have labeled the word “allyship” the 2021 word of the year. Dictionary.com says that the word acts as a powerful prism through which to view the defining events and experiences of 2021. Allyship is defined as “the

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Pushing Back on a Cultural Christmas

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/28

If you’re like me, there are two ways that I lose sight of what it is that we just celebrated on Christmas day. First, I’ve allowed the familiarity of Christmas to diminish the meaning. I grew up in a Christian home where Christmas was centered on the birth of Christ. Even though I value that heritage, I realize that the bible readings and Christmas hymns have become so familiar that I’m tempted to listen and sing without actually focusing on the wonder of the incarnation. Second, I’ve allowed the

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You'll Shoot Your Eye Out Kid

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/27

A couple of weeks ago, I had my annual viewing of the classic movie, A Christmas Story. Like all good classic movies, there are a host of one-liners from A Christmas Story that just stick with you. One is Santa’s response to little Ralphie when he asks for a Red Ryder BB gun: “You’ll shoot your eye out kid!” Those words resonate with me because my boyhood was filled with annual requests for my own bb gun, something I was lacking but which all the other neighborhood kids had. I never got one. In

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Rejoice in the Savior

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/24

On this Christmas Eve, I want to share with you one of my favorite Christmas scripture passages. Perhaps you can share it around your table tomorrow. In the Gospel of Luke, we are told that eight days after his birth, Jesus was brought by Mary and Joseph to Jerusalem to be circumcised. While there, they took Jesus into the temple where an upright man by the name of Simeon took the infant in his arms. God had promised Simeon that he would not die until he had seen the Lord’s Christ with his own eyes

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Bible Reading

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/23

How important is Bible reading? The late theologian J.I. Packer says, “The ignorant Christian is a vulnerable one. We must know our Bibles and be clear on God’s works, will, and ways, or we shall fail in our spiritual warfare.” The good news from the American Bible Society’s 2021 State of the Bible research found that during the course of the recent pandemic, the number of adult Bible users increased. This is good news as not only do our children learn from our bible reading example, but as we read

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Telling Kids the Truth

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/22

If our children came home from school, day-after-day, and we asked them “What did you learn?”, and they would answer, day-after-day “I learned that two plus two is five”, we would be diligent about correcting them. We’d also be wise to put them in another school. As the school of life catechizes our kids 24/7 in today’s world, we must be continually seeking to know what they are learning. And where we find that the cultural narrative has mis-educated them, we must offer diligently-dispensed

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Social Media Parental Insight

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/21

One of my favorite scenic spots is Bearskin Neck in Rockport, Massachusetts. As you stand on high ground, you get an awesome view of the Atlantic Ocean. But there’s one spot where you can look over the edge at a forty foot drop straight down into the shallow water and rocks. Because there’s not fence, parents nervously watch and hold on to their children to keep them from falling. This parental caution is warranted, and it serves as a great metaphor for how we should be protecting our kids as they

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