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John Mark Reynolds reminds us to be happy with trying to be the best that we can be —with all our specific gifts and limitations— instead of trying the best that anyone else can be. And he shows how enviously trying to be the best in everything (falling for “sequential monomania”) can get in the way of happy adulthood.
Fred and Susan Sanders reflect on how their tactics had to change as their children grew, and offer three principles for wise parenting.
Peter David Gross insists that adulthood is better than youth by far, and calls youth to enter it with courage and joy.
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Peter David Gross offers calm advice for how to think, feel, and act after you or someone you love have a big encounter with God, angels, demons, or other spiritual things.
John Mark Reynolds describes how disagreements between Christians are part of God’s plan for helping us grow up in Christ.
John Mark Reynolds reminds us to be happy with trying to be the best that we can be —with all our specific gifts and limitations— instead of trying the best that anyone else can be. And he shows how enviously trying to be the best in everything (falling for “sequential monomania”) can get in the way of happy adulthood.
John Mark Reynolds considers the experience of pain –whether it is good pain or gratuitous pain– and reminds us that it can all become redemptive when we offer it honestly to God.
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In this series of short clips, CAI’s President, Peter David Gross (then the Executive Director of Wheatstone Ministries) speaks to high schoolers about the beauty and importance of Christian adulthood.
Peter joined Eric Overholt and Andrew Unger for a recent episode of the Young Anglicans Podcast to talk about Christian adulthood. They talk about the importance of a Christian imagination, who should be hired to be a youth pastor, the fruits of maturity in old age, and lots lots more.
In this sermon, Peter insists that there’s more to the Christian life than just getting saved. We’re born again in Christ, and we’re supposed to grow up again too. Then, following Ephesians 4:11-16, he unpacks a biblical method for gaining Christian maturity.
Peter was the first guest on a new podcast for parents of youth, “Dance Like This" by Voyagers Bible Church Jr. High ministry. In the episode, “They Grow Up So Fast,” he and Aaron Cardino, Voyager’s Jr. High Pastor, talk about false visions of adulthood, parenting strategies to overcome them, and lots more.