media.faith.culture-Parents 101: Take Home
Basics
Micyael Hyatt – The Lost Art of Note-Taking
Media
Sex (please see Take Home for the.sex.talk)
Self Injury (please see Take Home for your story: the wounding embrace
CPYU.org – Centre for Parents and Youth Understanding
Pluggedin.ca – Shining light on the world of Popular Entertainment
NeedHelpNow.ca – Self / Peer Exploitation: It’s Not ok
CTV News – Website aims to help teens emerge from the aftermath of ‘sexting’
CTV – W5 – Inside the sexting sub-culture of teens
JSon – Parent Me (Music Video)
Sexuality
Christianity Today (Jennifer Grant) – The Awkward but Important HPV Vaccine Conversation
Micah Kobayashi – Why I use Sex
Craig Gross – How to Talk to your kids about sex
Pornography
Walt Mueller – Your Kids Have seen Pornography … So What???
x3pure.com – 30 day online workshops
Doggie Head Tilt – Rx for ED?
Filtering and Accountability Software
Open DNS –The Worlds Largest Internet Secueity Network
X3Watch – The Keys to online integrity and Accoubtability
Covenant Eyes – Internet Accountability and Filitering
Net Nanny – We Protect Families
K-9 – Web Protection
Video Games
Entertainment Software Association of Canada – website
Faith (Spiritual Discplines)
Jeff McClung – Why Spiritual Diciplines aren’t Enough
Tim Keller (book) – The Reason for God
Lee Strobel (book) – The Case for Christ
Lee Strobel (book) – The Case for Faith
1. Simple and Sacrifical Living
Bill Walker – How should we tithe?
Global Rich List – How Rich are you?
Christal Earl – The Complexity of Complicity
2. Solitude and Silence
New Wood – Henri Nouwen: Without Silence and Solitude “Our Lives are in Danger”
Michael Hyatt – The Practice of Stillness
Carey Nieuwhof – 8 Reasons Leaders need Solitude and 5 doable ways to find it
Debra K Fileta – The Perks of Solitude
Tyler Ward – Why we Need to Start Taking the Sabbath Seriously
3. Sabbath
Mark Buchanan (book) – The Rest of God
Christine Organ – Taking a Modern-Day Sabbath
Kirk Winslow – Dignity, Freedom and Peace
4. Community
5. Service to Others
6. Worship
6a. Praise and Worship
6b. Communion
6c. Teaching
6d. Prayer
6e. Fasting
6f. Study
Glo Bible – Experience the Bible like Never Before
Olive Tree – The Bible Study App
Commentary – NIV Application Commentary
Culture
Lecrae – Erasing Sacred / Secular Divide & Engaging Culture
John Stott – Four Ways Christians Can Influence the World
Kary Oberbrunner (book) – The Fine Line
H. Richard Niebuhr (book) – Christ & Culture
Dick Staub (book) – The Culturally Savy Christian
Andy Crouch (book) Culture Making: Restoring our Creative Calling
Bob Briner (book) – Roaring Lambs
Learning my Lines – Youth Workers and Culture-Watching – How far is to Far – Part 1 of 2
Learning my Lines – Youth Workers and Culture-Watching – How far is to Far – Part 2 of 2
Good Articles
Hemorrhaging Faith – Are People Leaving Your Church?
Psychology Today – The Marks of Maturity
dk Leaderahip – Dr. Karyn Gordon
USA Today – Each family dinner adds up to benefits for adolescents
After the Music – The Missing Piece
Parenting Articles
Tim Elmore – The Secret to Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids
Mark Driscoll – 7 Ways Fathers Provoke their Children
I.J. Schecter – Kids Behaviour: 10 things to forgive them for (and why)
Ron Clarke – What Teachers really want to tell Parents
Michael Mitchell – 50 Rules for Dads of Daughters