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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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Do Our Kids Want to Learn about Jesus?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/09/13

Our friends at the Barna Institute have released a new report on members of Gen Z and spirituality that is titled “The Open Generation”. There’s some encouraging news for those who love and lead kids regarding their interest in Christianity. Listen to these words from the report: Curiosity about Jesus is widespread in the open generation. Teens in the U.S. are far more intrigued than their global peers, with 77 percent being at least somewhat motivated to keep learning about Jesus throughout their

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What Social Media Reveals of our Hearts

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/09/12

I recently read a thought-provoking quote from the eighteenth century writer Samuel Johnson. Johnson wrote, “Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk, your mind is on parade.” Immediately after reading these words I thought about what Jesus said in Matthew twelve when he was talking about how a tree is known by its fruit. Jesus said, “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” He goes on to say that good will come out of a heart that is good, and that evil comes out of a heart

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Driving to God's Glory

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/09/11

In our North American culture, one of the only rites of passage we have from childhood to adulthood is the day that teenager passes their driver’s test and gets their driver’s license. As parents, we take the time to ensure that our kids have learned how to drive safely and conduct themselves responsibly before we allow them to take their driver’s test, and we share numerous safe driving reminders every time they head out alone on the road as newly licensed drivers. What we have to remember is that

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Helping Kids Handle Peer Pressure

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/09/08

As Christian parents, what can we do to help our teens weather the inevitable storm of negative peer pressure in a way that brings honor and glory to their heavenly father? First, realize that negative peer pressure is a spiritual battle that all of us fight constantly. Second, pray for your kids as they face the pressure on a daily basis. Third, examine yourself to see how your example serves them as a model of how to handle negative peer pressure. Fourth, live a lifestyle of following Christ

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Are You Raising Silver Spoon Kids?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/09/07

One of the most alarming trends in today’s youth culture is a growing sense of entitlement. It’s especially prevalent among those children and teens living on the receiving end of a silver spoon. On the other end are parents who feed their kids an endless parade of opportunities, activities, and things - all without ever having to work for any of it. These kids wind up believing that they will never have to work for anything, because, after all, they deserve it. A Harris Interactive Poll found that

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The Glorious Opportunity of Parenting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/09/06

Today, I want to offer a word of encouragement and perspective to the parents who may be listening. I’ve made an effort to be a good parent. I’ve made many, many mistakes. I’ve struggled from time to time with my own self-centered feelings of inadequacy, sometimes falling into the trap of worrying about what other people will think about the shortcomings in my life and the life of my kids. I’ve grappled with rebellion in my kids. I’ve known sickening dread, sleepless nights, rage, bitterness, shame,

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The Latest on Kids and Drugs

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/09/05

For the last forty-eight years, researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan have been monitoring drug trends among teenagers, and reporting their findings annually in the Monitoring the Future Survey. The most recent survey indicates that in 2022, levels of adolescent cannabis use and nicotine vaping held steady. Among our high school seniors, thirty one percent admitted to cannabis use in the prior twelve months. Twenty seven percent of high school seniors

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The Benefits of Family Mealtime

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/09/04

God has made us for relationships, and the primary human relationships for which we’ve been made are those with our family. It’s no secret that one of the primary trends undermining the health of our families has been the loss of a family meal time. Researchers recently listed seven benefits of eating together as a family. First, everyone has better eating habits. One reason is that eating together keeps us from a fast food diet. Second, it helps the mental health of our kids, lowering their risk of

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Kids Who Regret What Their Parents Share Online

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/09/01

A recent article in Teen Vogue’s online magazine is titled “influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content.” As the title indicates, the article talks about the parents who leveraged social media by putting everything about their children’s lives online for the world to see, not just photos of childhood achievements, but all the intimate details of their lives. This includes videos of them crying, to footage of them being disciplined. All of these have been shared like a

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Cannabis Use and the Brain

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/31

With the use of cannabis on the rise and increasingly accepted in our culture, it’s important that we reckon with the fact that its use does have an effect on one’s cognitive and psychological processing. A variety of recent studies found that in relation to cognitive processes, cannabis users showed significantly lower performance on memory tests than those who are non-users or occasional users. These results were consistent, even when the subject being tested was clean on the day of testing

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Flee From Sexual Immorality

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/30

The word pornography is rooted in the Greek word porneia, which means to practice prostitution, sexual immorality, or fornication. In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul frequently used this word in reference to any kind of sinful and illegitimate sexual activity. Our friends at the HarvestUSA ministry offer this helpful definition of pornography that’s written from a biblical perspective: Pornography is anything that the heart uses to find sexual expression outside of God’s intended design for

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The Danger of Vainglory

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/29

The Westminster Shorter Catechism asks this question: “What is the chief end of man?” The answer: “To glorify God and enjoy Him forever!” The Gospel is about God in His mercy and grace doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Jesus came to rescue us from all of our sin, brokenness, and disordered desires. The Gospel creates an entirely new view of self that is not based on competing with and comparing ourselves to others. Rather, it is about salvation by grace that allows us to find our

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Why Kids Aren't Getting a Driver's License

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/28

Many members of Generation Z are either delaying getting their driver’s license, or not getting a driver’s license at all. Generation Z includes all those born between 1997 and 2012. When most of us think back to our own teenage years, we couldn’t wait to get our driver’s license, as it represented a move from dependence to independence, and it served as a marker that we were moving closer to adulthood. But things have changed. In 1997, forty-three percent of sixteen-year-olds and sixty-two percent

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Children as Gifts

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/25

Parents, we can’t buy into the widespread cultural cynicism regarding children and teenagers as difficulties or burdens. The psalmist writes, “Don’t you see that kids are God’s best gift? The fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior’s fistful of arrows are the kids of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of kids.” Children are not liabilities; they’re rewards from God, given to us as a sign of God’s favor. God values them highly and so must we

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Boys and Anorexia

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/24

Anorexia Nervosa is a medical term which means “nervous loss of appetite.” In recent years, anorexia has been on the rise, fueled in many ways by society’s pressure to be thin and to be perfect, an ever present reality thanks to both social media and marketing. While anorexia is more prevalent in our girls, a growing number of males are struggling with it as a result of body image concerns. It’s usually reported that ten percent of anorexics are males. A recent study in Australia found that about

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Parenting Successful Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/23

What is your greatest desire for your children? Most parents summarize their desire with the word “success.” But what is success? For many, it’s a secure job, the accumulation of things, and personal safety. But the Jesus who calls us to “take up your cross and follow me” defines success differently. When asked by the teacher of the law about which commandment is most important, Jesus defined success. He said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind

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A Strategy to Push Back on Teen Anxiety

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/22

With anxiety off the charts as a growing epidemic among children and teens, I want to offer a strategy you can employ to prevent anxiety in the kids you know and love. Perhaps the most effective strategy is to teach them to preach the Gospel to themselves. Teach them to speak to their hearts, telling their hearts to follow the Gospel rather than allowing their hearts to speak to them. You see, our feelings are not trustworthy. They can lead us astray. They are especially dangerous during times of

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Your Teen's Hunger for God

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/21

Everyone who has ever walked the face of the earth has been made by God for a relationship with God. Because our rebellion and sin has severed that relationship, there remains a deep yearning inside each human being to have that relationship restored. Whether our teenagers know what to call it or not, Blaise Pascal described this universal hole in the soul as a god-shaped vacume. Alistar McGrath describes Pascal’s model as “a God-shaped emptiness within us, which only God can fill. We may try to

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Family Structure and School Grades

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/18

At creation, God instituted the family to be the place where all human beings are born, nurtured, loved, and brought to physical, emotional, and spiritual maturity. In God’s good order and design, children will flourish best in a loving home where there is a father married to a mother. In the world of family research, this is known as an intact family. Recently, the Institute for Family Studies released a report regarding the differences in educational achievement between children from intact homes

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Smartphones at What Age

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/17

Your children and teens are most likely not going to like what I have to share with you today. It has to do with the proper age to put a smartphone in a child’s hands. Chances are, if your child or teen doesn’t have their own smartphone, they’re telling you that they are the last person in their school or perhaps even on the face of the earth to be living phone-less. For starters, that’s not true. In addition, our parental decision-making should not hinge on what everyone else is doing, but what it

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