Today’s culture isn’t a positive place to be if you’re a Christian. Our culture is so messed up we don’t even know the difference between male and female anymore with the transgender issue. The world tells us there are no [...]
For my 50th birthday, I decided I was going to train for a 25k road race. That’s running 15 ½ miles without stopping. I started off running three miles, gradually increasing it all the way to fifteen. The training was [...]
I pulled a big one. My sixteen-year-old daughter wanted to tell me something about her terrible day at school. As I sat on the couch half sleeping and half watching TV, she began telling me about it. About sentence number [...]
We continue looking at why young people fifteen and older leave the church, according to Barna research.1 The latest reason is young people don’t feel safe questioning their faith. Young people have said that the church "feels unfriendly to doubters." [...]
Today, we’re looking at the last reason why three in five young people fifteen and older are leaving the church.1 Do you know many young people “wrestle with the exclusive nature of Christianity”? In fact, “younger Americans have been shaped [...]
Today, we’re looking at the fourth reason why three in five young people fifteen and older are leaving the church (according to Barna research).1 Number four is “young Christians’ church experiences related to sexuality are often simplistic, judgmental.” With sexuality lived [...]
This week we’re taking a peek at why young people are leaving the church.1 Three in five young people older than fifteen do that. Today, we’re looking at reason number three, outlined by Barna research. The most common of the [...]
Yesterday, we started talking about why kids are leaving the church. Today, we take a look at the second reason. Barna research says young people think that “church is boring.”1 Some suggest “faith is not relevant to [their] career or interests,” [...]
Barna Group research says there are five reasons why three in five kids leave the church after they’re fifteen.1 First? They say churches “seem overprotective.” Most young people in the church want “their faith in Christ to connect to the [...]
Are you concerned your son or daughter might not stay in church when they become adults? Today, kids are becoming less and less engaged in our local churches. According to Barna research, three out of five young people fifteen years of [...]