Despite a governmental push to get children and teens to exercise more, most teens aren't meeting the fed's guidelines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through its Let's Move program, wants all ...

Quick Backdrop The 2014 Winter Olympics are just around the corner. Quick question: What is your favorite winter Olympic sport? A recent Google search showed that nearly every pole asking that question had...

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet..." (Ps. 119:105).During my childhood, I often carried small paperback books in my pocket. Then one year a teacher gave me a small packet of poems. She told me, "Carry one of th...

I guess there's a student such as Melanie in almost every youth ministry—the student who always shows up but may not stand out, the one who seems to be doing well and doesn't cause drama, the one who may ...

Martin Scorsese's new film, The Wolf of Wall Street, has its eye on an Academy Award or two this year, but it's already earned an honor of a more dubious nature: It's unofficially the most profane movie of all ...

"My wife and I forgive Karl Pierson for what he did. We would ask all of you here and all of you watching to forgive Karl Pierson. He didn't know what he was doing…The fact is that Karl was so blinded by ...

Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes society is in a paradoxical age. Thanks to technology, most of us are talking all the time. We text. We tweet. ...

On Jan. 1, 2014, marijuana officially became a legal, recreational drug in Colorado. While only those 21 and older are allowed to buy pot, many rehab facilities are preparing to deal with a new wave of teen use...

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Some days it feels as if there just isn't enough time to get it all done. Some weeks feel so busy and are so filled with meetings that although we are serving God, it's hard to see or hear Him. What about praye...