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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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Limiting Online Gaming

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/29

Due to the fact that online gaming is a relatively recent phenomenon, research into the effects of online gaming on children and teens is still in its infancy. But experts are now suggesting that anecdotal evidence points to a thirty to forty percent increase in cases of aggressive behavior by children addicted to online games. Granted, the evidence is purely anecdotal, but we shouldn’t dismiss it for that reason. Rather, we should sit up and take notice. Experts believe that the addictive nature of

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6 Core Truths

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/26

In his classic must-read book, “Knowing God”, the late theologian J.I. Packer gives some advice to all Christians that I believe is especially appropriate for parents. As moms and dads committed to leading our kids into a vibrant and genuine life-long faith in Jesus Christ, we should take Packer’s guidance to heart. Packer says that the secret to a God-honoring and Christian life is to take six core truths about the faith and say them over and over to ourselves first thing in the morning, last thing

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Christ-Centered Leadership

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/25

Our kids are growing up in a world that is frustrated with institutional religion. In fact, one of the primary targets of this frustration is the Christian Church. This frustration is justified when expressed in response to pastors and other leaders who abuse their power. In first Peter five, Peter tells elders that they are to shepherd the flock of God, not domineering over those in your charge, but by being examples to the flock. This needs to be said in a world where there are so many providing

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What is Your School Teaching about Sex and Gender?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/24

Abigail Shrier is the author of the book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing our Daughters. She is a left-leaning journalist who is deeply concerned about how our kids are being recruited and indoctrinated into the LGBTQ ideology. She recently shared the content from leaked documents and audio recordings from the California Teachers Association Conference billed as the “2021 LGBTQ+ Issues Conference: Beyond the binary: Identity and Imagining Possibilties.”Teachers attended workshops

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Vertical Nature of the Church

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/23

One of the mantras we increasingly hear from Christian kids and young adults is this: I like Jesus but I don’t like the church. Dr. Michael Kruger tells us that a growing number of pastors, youth pastors, and parents affirm this notion when they teach kids that meeting actual needs is more important than maintaining institutions. We would all agree that the church is not perfect simply because it is made up of individuals, all of whom wrestle with their own sin and brokenness. But the reality is

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Parents and a Stable Home Life

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/22

I recently sat with a small group of a dozen adults who shared the stories of growing up in a home without a father. In each case, the adult shared the negative consequences and difficulties of navigating growing up without a dad. I thought about these conversations when I read a report entitled “Rebalancing Children First”, which was produced by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution in an effort to study the challenges and opportunities facing children ages 12 and under in

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Church Discipline

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/19

Theologians correctly teach us that in order to be a true Church, a local church should be marked by three things: the faithful preaching of God’s Word; the administration of the sacraments, and church discipline. It seems that the last of the three – church discipline – is increasingly ignored in today’s world. Dr. Michael Kruger tells us that this push to eliminate church discipline is rooted in the growing belief that when it comes to the Christian faith, pastors, youth pastors, and parents

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Doubt and Certainty

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/18

In today’s world, our kids are being taught that they can and should make their own decisions about what to believe based on how they feel and what works for them at any given moment in time. Dr. Michael Kruger says that one concerning way that this is evidenced in the church today is that we have now come to believe that inviting questions is more valuable than supplying answers. A growing number of pastors, youth workers, and parents are enlisting this approach with kids, encouraging them to

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Following Jesus vs. Following Your Heart

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/17

Our kids are growing up in a world where they’re told to live by a variety of popular mantras, including things like “You do you” and “just follow your heart.” The reality is that these messages ring loudly in our kids ears, convincing even those kids who claim to follow Jesus to give into their own desires rather than to God’s will. In Matthew 16:24 and 25 we read these words: Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and takeup his cross and follow me. For

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Finding Identity in an AR World

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/16

I was recently chatting with some youth workers about the changes they are seeing in how their teenaged students form identity. They were lamenting the fact that kids are leaning less and less into God’s will and way for discovering what it means to be human, while choosing their identities based on their own personal preferences and feelings. The youth workers said they fear what lies ahead for these kids and identity formation because of augmented reality, or AR, technologies. Writer Robin

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The Gift of Children

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/15

At the end of John Gunther’s classic 1949 book, Death Be Not Proud, about the death of his 17-year-old son Johnny from a brain tumor, Johnny’s mom offered a few pages of her thoughts regarding her son’s death. Her words hit me hard as they remind me that my children are a gift from God. She writes, “Today, when I see parents impatient or tired or bored with their children, I wish I could say to them, But they are alive, think of the wonder of that! They may be a care and a burden, but think, they

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Right Doctrine

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/12

In his instructions to his understudy Timothy, the apostle Paul says this: Keep a watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. These words remind us of the need to be sure that we are taking the time to ground our beliefs in the truths and doctrines we find in God’s Word. New Testament professor Michael Kruger tells us that in today’s world, many in the church are leaning away from right doctrine, and emphasizing the priority

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Belief in God

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/11

How many Americans say they believe in God? The Gallup organization recently released the results of their Values and Beliefs poll and found that the vast majority of adults in the U.S. believe in God. Currently, the number stands at eighty-one percent. That’s down six points from the eighty seven percent who said they believed in God just five years earlier, in 2017. Gallup first asked this question in 1944, when ninety-eight percent of Americans said they believed in God. On the one hand, we

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Social Media and Gender Incongruence

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/10

In the past you’ve heard me mention what is called Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. Simply stated, Rapid onset gender dysphoria is spreading as an identity option among the population of teens and young teens as a result of the influence of peers and social media. Of course, when we teach the traditional biblical view on gender we teach that God created human beings on the gender binary, as either male of female. Sadly, our culture sees God’s order and design as outdated and constricting. A group of

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The Need to Slow Down

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/09

Are you feeling burdened, tired, and just plain worn out from the rat race that your life has become? I’m hearing more and more parents say that life has become crazy with running around here, there, and everywhere. During one recent conversation with a Christian parent, these words from musician Phil Keaggy’s four-decade old song “A Time and a Place” came to mind. Listen to Keaggy’s take on the words of Jesus in Matthew six: “Said the robin to the sparrow, I would really like to know why these

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Nutrition Habits and Teens

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/08

The human body is absolutely amazing. The more I read the unfolding body of research on the complexity of how the body grows and develops, the more I am driven to give glory to God as the Creator. By God’s design, everything in our bodies is integrated. That’s why it’s important for parents to guide their children and teens into healthy eating and nutrition habits. Registered dietician Jillian Kubala reminds us that from puberty through early adulthood, the body is in a stage of rapid growth. Proper

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Declaring Things Right or Wrong

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/05

In Proverbs 14:12 we read these words of wisdom and truth: There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. Whenever I read this verse I am reminded of my need to ground myself in the truths of God’s Word, and then think and act rightly in accordance with God’s will. New Testament scholar Michael Kruger tells us that in today’s world many in the church believe and teach that the work of reconciliation should be valued over making judgements. Our current cultural moment

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Move Forward Cautiously with Technology

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/04

Move forward cautiously. That’s good advice as we blaze new trails on what’s been called “The Digital Frontier.” I can’t help but think about the wise words of Marshall McLuhan, spoken decades before the smartphone, about technology and its effects on us as human beings: “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” Yet even though these words prove more and more prophetically accurate with each passing day, we simply keep walking forward without making any adjustments

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Work Matters to God

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/03

Where will your kids land in terms of the vocations they choose when they enter adulthood? These days I’m looking at my young grandchildren and wondering the same about them. How has God uniquely gifted them? What are their interests and abilities? No matter what vocation they choose, one essential lesson we must instill in them while they are still young is this: all work matters to God. I love these words from theologian Abraham Kuyper: "Wherever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he

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3 Things to Teach Kids about Pornography

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/02

What should we tell our kids about pornography? In a recent article on the Defend Young Minds website, Gabe Deem listed the three things he wants to teach his kids about porn. Gabe was first exposed to porn at age eight. By age twenty-three he reached a point where he was addicted to and dependent on pornography in ways that I will not mention here. He is committed to teaching his son these three things about what pornography does to us. First, pornography can harm you physically. He goes on to

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