From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Five things that parents need to know: (advice from teenagers to adults)

by admin on August 11, 2008

  1. TeensThe internet has more on it than you can begin to imagine.  You can go to websites and learn how to make drugs from everyday items, their effects, danger, etc…to the chemical makeup of LSD or how to make Crystal Meth.
  2. Don’t underestimate a child’s power to deceive.  The more they deceive the better they become at deception.  Practice paying attention to your child when they’re younger and it won’t seem so strange to them when they are older.
  3. Don’t be in denial about your children and do not think that your child would not do what others do.
  4. Bailing your child out does not help them one bit.  Actually, it hurts more than you can ever know.  Most kids know this already…they just don’t care because they have already learned that there are no real consequences.  Telling them that it’s going to be all right doesn’t help either.  They need you (parents) to hold them accountable for their actions.
  5. Sex is happening all the time.  You have to know what your kid is doing at your house and what they are doing at other people’s houses.   Most things will happen at your house if there is already a history of doing it there.  Kids get comfortable with a routine and the only way to find out what is going on is to disrupt that routine randomly.  This doesn’t just apply to sex…it is for everything.

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A Crucible of Suffering and Scars

by Stephen Leonard on August 4, 2008

Scriptural Basis:
“Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you…So then those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.” I Peter 4:12 & 19.

Anderson’s Applications:
One of our recent graduates from the PAYH is nearing the end of Basic Training to become a U.S. Marine. His Dad wrote us to pray for him as he goes through the final test: a 54 hour grueling event called the Crucible (with only two hours sleep and two meals). I know some of what he is facing from my own 34 years in the Army. There is one comforting thought to this whole experience for him; he knows when it will end….in 54 hours. [click to continue...]

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