God wants us to love Him with all that we are. Loving Him with our soul is loving Him with our mind, will and emotions. All of our faculties are wrapped up in loving Him. Let's talk about the mind. WorldChangers love God with their minds. They have had a...
Becoming a world changer is not complicated or really anything new. It's simply doing what Jesus said in Mark 12:30-31: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." This is the first...
What to do if your teen says, "I don't know," every time you try to start a conversation. We all know we should spend time talking to our kids, but many of us do not know where to begin. We feel we are doing our job as a parent by asking them questions about their...
It happens more often than we would like to admit. In the flurry of life, you have been about your business and your children have been about their business - going to school, being involved in activities, developing relationships. All of a sudden you look across...
I see it almost every weekend as I travel to "Acquire the Fire" conventions across North America—young ladies busted, confused, hurt, and brokenhearted because of the shallowness or lack of relationship with their fathers. I see them stream to the altar with makeup...
"Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29:18 KJV). Without a vision, the people are destroyed, aimless, confused, bewildered, and directionless. This describes much of what this generation of young people is like. I didn't have a job, so my mom just...
This decade is plagued with the notion that everybody is fooling around before marriage. The way that movies and TV programs depict sex outside of marriage, you feel like you are not normal if you wait. Hollywood glamorizes immorality, making it seem like anyone...
The fire of passion is something that is so alluring for young people. It seems so mysterious and exciting that many teens play with it and get burned. Their hearts get burned, their emotions crushed, and many times their future ruined. They just had to try to...
It seems like every time you walk into the living room, the television is on and your teen is sitting around, flipping through the channels to find the hottest program. You walk into their bedroom - the television is on, their headphones are in their ears, or...
The phone rings. You search for the clock... 1:30am?! Who could possibly be calling at such an hour? In the ensuing few minutes, you discover your teen has broken the law and is in jail for the night. Terror grips your soul! You are shocked with horror and...
Really listen to your kids. James 1:9 says, "Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry." Most of us are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to get angry. If you really want to find out what is going on in your teen, begin to listen to what...
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