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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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Gender Creative Parenting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/20

If you have ever looked closely at the ebb and flow of cultural history, you realize that when old values are challenged, the pendulum typically swings too far in the other direction. Recently, many have challenged the old gender-role notion that a girl who loves to play touch football should never be allowed to play with the neighborhood boys. I would argue that this gender role notion is way too restrictive. In fact, I remember some of our best neighborhood players being girls who were girls and

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Facing Depression

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/17

With so many of our kids experiencing and being treated for depression, it’s important that we develop a biblical perspective on depression that will help us help our kids walk through the dark periods they may be experiencing. In his book Depression: A Stubborn Darkness, Ed Welch says that “depression is painful. It is a form of suffering.” Welch reminds readers that almost every page of scripture offers insights, direction, and encouragement about suffering, including the fact that suffering

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Helping Kids with Body Image

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/16

In today’s appearance-oriented world, chances are good that your kids won’t get the right body-image perspective anywhere but from you. Of course, gaining the right perspective begins by showering your kids with love and acceptance that isn’t conditional on what they look like. It continues by carefully watching what we say to them regarding their appearance. Have you ever caught yourself criticizing them about their weight, body shape, or complexion? Those words not only hurt, but they affirm the

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Love is a Decision

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/15

I love C.S. Lewis’s corrective to our culture’s mis-definition and misunderstanding of “love”: “Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; the state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.” One place where I have seen true love lived out is between married people who have remained committed to each other through thick and thin, richer or poorer, sickness or health. . . through it

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Remote Learning and Distractions

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/14

I’m guessing that we’d all be hard-pressed to remember one teacher from our childhood who never said, “No talking in class!” Educators from K to twelve know that learning requires focus and concentration. When distractions arise, learning is compromised. Remove the distractions, and more effective learning takes place. For that reason, it’s no surprise that during the pandemic, college students who had to resort to remote learning struggled with concentration, as remote learning typically took place

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How Kids Spend Their Money

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/13

When I was a young adult, a friend got me thinking more deeply when he said this: “You tell me who or what you daydream about, and I’ll tell you who or what your god is.” I’ve also heard it said that how we spend our money reveals both our priorities and who we are. Consider as well what Jesus says in Matthew 6:21: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Looking at the way our kids spend their money reveals not only who they are, but who their gods are as well. The folks at

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Pushing Back on Materialism 5

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/10

Today we finish our look at strategies for dealing with the materialism that becomes painfully obvious in our lives during this time of year. One of the most effective strategies I’ve experienced is to take a missions trip with your teen. One of my most memorable mission trips with one of my own kids took place when I traveled to the inner-city of Chattanooga with my then sixteen year old son Nate. The trip was sponsored by our church, and I volunteered to go along as an adult leader. God did

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Pushing Back on Materialism 4

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/09

Today we continue our look at addressing the materialism that so easily rears its ugly head in our lives during the Christmas season. I’ve worked with parents for years and I’m the parent of four children myself. I know full well that in today’s world our tendency is to idolize our kids. We want them to have, do, and be more than anyone else. But we do them harm when we create a culture of childhood royalty by treating them like princes and princesses. What we’re doing is instilling a lifelong

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Pushing Back on Materialism 3

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/08

All this week we’re looking at strategies for addressing our bent towards materialism. . . a bent that rears it’s ugly head quite frequently during the Christmas season. Today, I want to encourage you to let your kids know that they are rich. I grew up thinking I was poor. There are numerous reasons for that, the most basic being that I saw myself as having less than those who had more, rather than one who had more than those who had less. We all do that don’t we? Then I learned my position in

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Pushing Back on Materialism 2

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/07

This week we’re looking at ways to challenge the materialism that marks our lifestyles as we prepare for Christmas. Let me encourage you to tell your kids about Bob Pierce, the founder of World Vision, who started his organization after praying, “Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.” The scriptures reveal what lies at the heart of God. Six little words from Isaiah 61:8 capture the essence of it all: “For I, the Lord, love justice.” God’s great unfolding drama of

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Pushing Back on Materialism 1

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/06

Since the Christmas season is a chance for our materialistic bent to shine, this week I’m suggesting strategies for leading your kids out of these dangerous and disobedient attitudes. Out of sight, out of mind might be the cliché that best describes my own personal history of ignorance to anyone’s material needs but my own. During my childhood, poverty was something that flashed outside my car window as my family ventured from our comfortable and cloistered enclave in the suburbs on trips through

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Vaping Pot

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/03

When electronic cigarettes first hit the U.S. market back in 2006, health experts began to raise warnings regarding the dangers related to these new smoking devices. It didn’t take long for marijuana users to adopt the device as another way to get a buzz from ingesting cannabis extracts. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics found that marijuana vaping by school-aged adolescents doubled between 2013 and 2020. In addition, the number of adolescents who

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Talking with Kids about Pressing Cultural Issues

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/02

Parents, are you at a loss for what to talk about at the dinner table with your children and teens? Are you wondering how to bring the light of the truths of God’s Word to shine on the cultural issues and realities that are influencing your kids? The marketing research folks at Piper Sandler recently released their list of the top ten political and social issues kids are thinking about and trying to navigate today. Listen to this list of issues and work to start and seize opportunities to talk about

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Our Need for Physical Bibles

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/12/01

Wes Hill starts his recent article in Christianity Today magazine with this sentence: “As I prepare to begin my tenth year as a seminary professor, I’m going to begin the biblical capstone class I’ll be teaching by recommending that my students consider taking up a habit they’re likely unfamiliar with: bringing an actual, physical, printed-and bound Bible to class.” Kudos to Dr. Hill for taking this step. The presence of smartphones and Bible apps, which are not bad things in and of themselves, has

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Fostering Integrity

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/11/30

The dictionary defines integrity as “firm adherence to a code of moral values” and “the quality of being complete or undivided.” Integrity describes a life that is united in a complete and consistent whole. An intregrated life is one where words, thoughts and actions consistently reflect the will of God for our lives. It is a life where one’s faith in God is woven in and through every area of life, including all that one does. . . even when no one else is looking. What can we do to counter the loss

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Brands and Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/11/29

One youth culture trend that reveals just how much the adolescent pressures of past generations have filtered down to the youngest of children, is the obsession our children have over clothing and appearance. Fueled by effective marketing, clothing brands have become idols for our kids. With Christmas shopping season in high gear, many of you have experienced this to be true, as even our youngest kids are asking for certain must-have brands of clothing. This year as in the past ten years, Nike is

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Kids and the Search for Identity

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/11/26

In the quest to discover and adopt an identity, the teenagers you know and love are looking for answers to questions such as: Am I worthwhile? What makes me worthwhile? How am I unique from others? Are those uniqueness’ good or bad? What makes me special? And most importantly, who am I? In a perfect world, all of our teenagers would accept proper guidance and be drawn to Godly identity-shaping models. They would understand themselves and find their identity in who they are as unique individuals

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Children are a Gift

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/11/25

On this thanksgiving day, I want to tell you about a moment when I felt incredible gratitude towards God. It was on a cold December night way back in 1983. That was the night when the first of our four children was born. First and foremost, I was incredibly grateful for my wife as I watched her endure the pains and work of childbirth. It was beyond impressive. And second, I was filled with overwhelming joy and thanks giving as I laid eyes on my first child for the very first time. I couldn’t sleep

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Pro-Ana TikTok Videos

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/11/24

It has been said that you can find anything on the internet. The reality is that all of us – young and old alike – are able to find and engage with everything from the good, to the bad and the ugly. A quick scan of tiktok, that video sharing social media platform popular among our kids, yields a surprising number of pro-anorexia hashtags that lead to videos which have been viewed by billions of young viewers. As if our kids don’t already face enough body image pressure to pursue unreasonable body

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Building Resiliency in Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2021/11/23

Do you remember your own middle school years? For most of us, it was brutal. Some things never change. Young peers can create, find, and point out all kinds of negative things in ways that are now sometimes defined as “bullying” or “harassment.” But if your home is place of refuge from that craziness, you will be instilling a healthy sense of resiliency that can sustain your kids through the pressure. One way to do this is to take the opposite approach of their peers. . . who are all too quick to

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