Spot Check
Theme of the Week: Double Exposure
Dennis Rainey
Monday, March 14, 2005
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Key Bible Verse: Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Follow anything that makes you want to do right (2 Timothy 2:22). Bonus Reading:Matthew 6:22-23
Benjamin was standing in the kitchen, nibbling on some barbecue potato chips. Just to stay connected with a 14-year-old boy going through puberty, I asked, "You been keeping your mind clean at school, son? You know, pornography—the kind of sleazy stuff boys pass around and look at?"
He looked me straight in the eye with a half-grin, like I'd been reading his mail. "Funny you should ask," he said. "Today at school a friend brought a Penthouse magazine into the locker room. But I didn't look at it. I just turned and walked out."
"Good for you! Good for you!" I said. The big grin that spread across his face told me he was proud he'd done what was right.
Many parents don't have the nerve to ask teenagers such an intrusive question. It's as if something happens to parents when their kids become teenagers, and they don't know how to talk to them. Adolescence is the age when kids should be learning how to bring their Christian faith into the realities of everyday life. It's one thing to teach your kids about God, but it's quite another thing to teach them how to walk with God and avoid temptations.
—Dennis Rainey in Moments Together for Parents
My Response: How am I doing at discussing critical issues with my kids as they grow?
Adapted from Moments Together for Parents (Regal, 2003) by permission.
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Lord, help me to stay connected with the children you've entrusted to me, and to steer them away from the dangers they'll encounter.
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