If you’ve turned on the news any time during the past year, it’s been hard to miss the wave of young social activism sweeping our nation. Teenagers like David Hogg and Emma González are becoming household names like Malala Yousafzai or the Little Rock Nine before them. More and more, teens are demanding their place Read More
Thin Spaces
Painted between 1510-1512 AD, is an Italian fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It was painted by a well-known artist named Michelangelo. Measuring 18 feet by 10 feet, it depicts the Biblical creation of Adam. At the center of this painting is the connected fingertips of Adam and God suggesting the connection between Read More
Talking to Teens About Suicide
It doesn’t take a lot of digging around to find alarming statistics regarding the rates of suicide in today’s youth. The Center for Disease Control and Prevent, claims that suicide was the second leading cause for death among 10-24 year olds in 2016. According to The Jason Foundation, each day in our nation, there are Read More
15 Awesome Summer Games
Summer is finally here! This time of year is often a challenge in the ministry world because of all the vacations and traveling. So how do you keep your students engaged? We’ve put together a list of exciting summer games your students will want to play again and again. Name Red Rover Q-tip War Duckie Read More
Liahona Academy is known by educational consultants and other behavioral health professionals as a premier residential treatment center for troubled boys. Liahona helps young men who are struggling wi...
From helicoptering habits to snowplowing, parents of college students are becoming increasingly involved in the lives of their almost-adult children.Colleges are reporting that parents are calling every from pr...
"Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much" (Luke 16:10)Years ago when I was in college, I held a summer job working for a gas company. My job began simply enough, with a can of gasoline, a ...
For its entire history, trendy clothier Abercrombie & Fitch has refused to make plus-size clothing. The rationale? Big kids don't fit the Abercrombie brand. "In every school there are the cool kids and popu...
Even Facebook's own data suggests younger teens are gravitating away from the world's biggest social network. Mashable's middle-school-age columnist Ruby Karp recently wrote a column on Mashable titled "I'm 13 ...
About half of high school boys admit to having thrown a punch in anger in the past year, according to a study from the Josephson Institute of Ethics. More than 23,000 high school students were polled for the st...
A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 70 percent of teens accidentally came across porn while online. That's deeply troubling, experts say, because being exposed to porn so early can forever...
Rich Shipe, discipleship and youth pastor of Blue Ridge Bible Church in northern Virginia was inspired by a blog post about a Bible-reading marathon in Wisconsin and decided to try a similar event with his own ...
Simplify this holiday season with great gift ideas! Here are A Few of Our Favorite Things that are sure to please everyone on your Christmas List. Mylon Le Fev...
"And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat to the other side" (Mark 4:36).Ten years ago, my wife received a breast cancer diagnosis. This news rocked our world and set us on a busy ...