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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 Glorious Opportunity of Parenting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/02

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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Setting Screentime Limits

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/01

According to the most recent research from the Institute for Family Studies, the amount of time kids ages eleven to eighteen spend on digital media is clearly linked to the type of family structure in which a teen is growing up. Teens who are growing up in a single-parent home or step-family are spending just under eleven hours a day engaged with digital media. Researchers also found that teens from intact families where they live with both biological parents, are spending considerably less time per

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Family Structure and School Grades

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/31

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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Your Own Personal Exegesis

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/30

While I haven’t seen it, there is a new play about teenagers that’s gathering steam in a new York city theatre. Billed and reviewed as a coming of age comedy, the play is about a church, it’s youth pastor, and it’s youth group. Of course, as one who was a youth pastor and who now trains youth pastors, I’m interested! But it’s the title of the play that not only fuels my interest further, but which gives me pause along with cause for concern. The play is titled “Your Own Personal Exegesis.” If you’re

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Youth Sports Spending

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/27

Pastor Tim Keller defines an idol as anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God. It’s anything you seek to give you what only God can give. One way to discover our own personal counterfeit gods is to see where we are spending our time and our money. One idol that’s fairly unique to our culture and times is youth sports. According to the recent state of play report from the Aspen Institute, the average family pays out eight hundred and eighty three dollars a year in one child’s

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Smartphones at What Age?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/26

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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Parenting Successful Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/25

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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The Meaning of Pride

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/24

Today, I want to share some words from Rick Reed in his Salvo Magazine article on the word Pride. Reed writes, “Until 1970, the former understanding of pride as one of the seven deadly sins was regarded as a foundational moral truth. With the advent of gay pride, the word assumed a positive connotation. The semantic shift facilitated a cultural shift from moral authority to individual preference. What right reason calls sin, individual preference now celebrates with ostentation and vainglorious

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The Danger of Vainglory

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/23

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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Sports Betting and God's Design

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/20

With the NFL playoffs in full swing and the Super Bowl just a few weeks away, it’s no surprise that the already pervasive ads for online gambling are ramping up in big ways. This has been going on for a few years now, and we must be aware that our kids are being nurtured into believing that it’s normal and even right to place their bets. Pastor Philip Ryken tells us that gambling is not worth the gamble. In fact, he reminds us that gambling is a sin for several reasons. First, it denies God’s

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Detransitioning

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/19

Recently, I was chatting with a friend about the never-ending stream of tv commercials for attorneys offering to represent marine corps vets who may be experiencing health issues as a result of time spent at one of the largest marine corp bases in the country. We got to thinking about what the next big issue might be that will be featured in future commercials of this type. My guess is that in a world where parents, schools, and medical professionals are encouraging and facilitating steps for gender

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Exposing Culture's Lies

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/18

The Bible tells us about the way things in our world should be. As Christian parents raising teens trying to find their way through a world that’s broken and terribly mixed-up, we are given a responsibility to help them wade through the muck that is, by leading them into an understanding of the way things should be. In Old Testament times, God raised up prophets who were called to do just that. In today’s world, God has given our kids parents who should be doing that job. But how are we to speak

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Pornography and Sex Trafficking

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/17

Because today’s emerging generations tend to be more socially aware than previous generations, one of the deterrents to pornography use is to show them how the pornography industry fuels sexual trafficking. Researchers at the John’s Hopkins Protection Project have identified several links between pornography and sexual trafficking. First, many of the actors are forced or coerced into performing for the camera. Second, there is a link with forced participation in prostitution. For example, underaged

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Digital Body Checking

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/16

One of the latest social media trends on Tik Tok, Instagram and other platforms is the posting of photos by young women showing their abs and protruding hip bones. These posts are often times accompanied with the hashtag body checking, and they feature comments from people comparing their weight and shape to that of the person who posted the photo. This new trend is known as digital body checking, which experts say is a compulsive behavior where individuals are constantly checking their weight,

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Gaslighting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/13

With cultural change happening so fast, the dictionary is always deleting and adding words to reflect those changes. It seems that while some words are outdated and no longer necessary, new words are popping up all the time. The folks at the Merriam Webster dictionary have announced the word of the year for 2022 is gaslighting. The term originated from the title of a 1938 movie and play about a man who was doing everything he could to make his wife think she was going crazy. The dictionary defines

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The Controversial Balenciaga Ad Campaign

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/12

Back in late November, the Balenciaga luxury fashion brand came under fire for launching a controversial ad campaign featuring young children. The campaign was put together to peddle the brand’s plush and extremely expensive handbags shaped like a teddy bear. In each of the print ads, a child of maybe four years hold is pictured holding one of the teddy bears. What caused the controversy is that the bears are wearing leather bdsm gear, bdsm standing for a range of sexual practices including bondage,

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Movie Lines and Scripture

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/11

Since we’ve just come through the holiday season, all of those holiday movies that are run and re-run countless times each year are fresh in our minds. No doubt, you’ve had to sometime answer the question, “What’s your favorite holiday movie?” We have favorites in our family. We’ve watched some of them so many times that we can repeat our favorite lines from memory. This year, I got to thinking about how good we can be at reciting memorable movie or tv lines. And then I began wondering about how

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What the Pandemic Did to Kids' Brains

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/10

A recent study from Stanford University looked at and compared the brain structures of adolescents after the pandemic. What they found offers insights into what difficulty and stress can do to the human body, particularly the bodies of our developing children and teens. When compared with the assessments done on teen brains prior to the pandemic, the teen brains assessed post-pandemic appeared to be several years older. In other words, the study suggests that pandemic related stressors

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Gender Transition with American Girl Dolls

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/09

Late last year, popular doll maker American Girl released a new book for girls. It’s titled, “A Smart Girls guide: Body Image Book: How to love yourself, live life to the fullest, and celebrate all kinds of bodies.” The book’s description tells us that every girl needs to learn to live comfortably in her own skin. The book’s message that all body types are worthy of love and respect is a much-needed pushback on a culture that glorifies model-type bodies, objectification, and the kind of pressures

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Your Kids and Their Future

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/06

When I was young, I thought that childhood would last forever, and, like Peter Pan, I’d always be a boy. Then I became a teenager. I realized that soon I’d be responsible for myself. This was important as my parents had already made it clear that I wasn’t going to be living in their house forever! One of the most heavy tasks of adolescence is that of making decisions regarding the future. As teens begin to focus on a vocational choice, they ask many questions: What should I do with my life? How will

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