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Thirty years ago, we never imagined we'd be navigating conversations about gender identity and sexuality with our children, but here we are. In this powerful conversation, Dannah Gresh from Pure Freedom Ministries shares biblical wisdom and practical tools to help you confidently guide your kids through today's confusing culture.In this episode, you'll discover:✅Three key Bible passages every child needs to understand about their body and identity before the world tells them lies✅How to have age-appropriate conversations about gender and sexuality without robbing your children of their innocence✅The critical difference between accepting and affirming when someone you love is walking through gender confusion✅Why your child's maleness or femaleness is directly connected to reflecting God's image in the world✅Practical strategies for responding with both truth and compassion when your kids encounter gender ideology at school or onlineReady to equip yourself with biblical truth? Grab the resources Dannah mentions in this episode to start these important conversations with confidence.Get your FREE Basic Pass to Life Skills Leadership Summit 2026 to give you confidence that your kids will be ready for adult life: https://HowToHomeschoolMyChild.com/lsls26Resources Mentioned:It's Great to Be a GirlLies Girls BelieveLies Girls Believe Mom's GuideLies Young Women BelieveLies Women BelieveIt's Great to Be a BoyLies Boys BelieveLies Men BelieveDannah Gresh is the founder of True Girl, a ministry dedicated to providing tools to help moms and grandmas disciple their 7–12-year-old girls. She is the co-host of Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth's Revive Our Hearts podcast and Revive Our Hearts Weekend. She has authored over twenty-eight books, including a Bible study for adult women based on the book of Habakkuk. Dannah and her husband, Bob, have just released a new book and limited-series podcast called Happily Even After which tells their marriage redemption story. They live on a hobby farm in central Pennsylvania.Show Notes: Introduction: A Topic We Never Imagined FacingKerry: Well hey everyone, Kerry back here with Life Skills Leadership Summit. Today I'm excited—not because of the topic, because it's a really difficult topic on sexuality and gender—but Dannah Gresh, I've just gotten to know her from a distance through podcasts and Revive Our Hearts and reading one of her books as well. But I do know that she has got a lot to say on this issue. So Dannah, thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it.Dannah: Oh, I am so honored and delighted. Thank you for having me.Kerry: So before we get started, let me just pray for us and we'll let God guide this conversation.Father in Heaven, thank you. Thank you for today. Thank you for Zoom. Thank you that we can have a conversation and we can share it with many, many people. We thank you that you are sovereign, that you're the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and we can rest in that no matter what's going on around us. And there's a lot of mess going on around us, but we can have our hope in Jesus.We just thank you for Jesus and the bond that we have in Him through the blood that He shed for us. I thank you for Dannah being here. I pray that the things that you want said will be spoken through this conversation, that you will be glorified, and that the ones that are listening, you will just really touch their hearts and show them what types of practical steps or spending more time in the Word—whatever you want them to do—and just to be led by the Holy Spirit. We pray all these things in Jesus' powerful name, amen.Dannah: Amen.About Pure Freedom Ministries and PartnershipKerry: Okay, for those of you that don't know, Dannah has Pure Freedom Ministries and this has two parts: True Girl and Born to Be Brave. By the time y'all listen to this, you probably already heard one of my kickoffs because we do one on Sunday night before the whole week and I'll explain it.But they are our organization that we are supporting through this Summit. So we'll take the profits that we make on anyone that upgrades from free to VIP. If you upgrade to VIP, 5% of our profits will go to this organization. And then some of our speakers—you've probably heard about the ones that have chosen to—if they decide to donate 5% of their commissions, then I will match that 5% as well.So hopefully, you know, that will be just a little way that y'all can support what Dannah and her team are doing. So I just want to make sure everyone understands that before we get going.Dannah: What a blessing. Thank you so much.Dannah's Story: From Teenager to Ministry LeaderKerry: Well, let's before we start this topic, can you just tell people a little bit about yourself?Dannah: Sure. Well, I love Jesus first and foremost, and He is the best part of everything about my life. I came to know Him when I was a really little girl through Child Evangelism Fellowship five-day clubs. I just love Child Evangelism Fellowship to this day because I remember that moment when I surrendered my heart and my life to Jesus. So precious.But fast forward—at the age of 15, I was a teacher for Child Evangelism Fellowship. I was teaching Sunday school in my church to three-year-olds, and I loved the Lord like crazy. But I was in a Christian dating relationship and was blindsided by sexual temptation.I just thought that was not possible in my life because I loved the Lord so much. And it became this great shame and this great heartache of my life until I was about 26. I just really understood that even though it had been so long since I'd experienced that sin and chosen that sin, I hadn't really received the redemption and the freedom that Christ died to give me.When I did, my life changed. And I had to get out my megaphone—my proverbial megaphone—and tell teenage girls. And then as I was doing that, ministry just kind of exploded.I was praying, "Lord, let me graduate to college girls and adult women." And the Lord said, "What about my little women? What about my 10-year-olds and what about my 9-year-olds and what about my 8-year-olds?"I was like, "Lord, that's really great. Somebody needs to do children's ministry, but what about me graduating from high school girls to the older women?" And He was persistent. The Lord just kept opening doors.Before we knew it, we really are one of the largest ministries that takes biblical truth to 8 to 12-year-old girls. And now we have boys—we just added them in the last few years—through live events, box subscriptions, Bible studies, online Bible studies, at-home Bible studies with mom. We want to put mom in the driver's seat. We believe that's what God's Word says—that mom and dad belong in the driver's seat of a child's moral development.Now we fast forward to this year. We live in a time and a day and age when the government and a lot of different political entities believe that parents aren't equipped to make moral decisions about their children. Well, we still believe they are.And now I understand why the Lord has put us in this critical position. One of the things we've done really well through the years is take whatever the difficult issues of the day are—when we started, that was AIDS—and we look at it through a biblical lens.Today, that biblical lens that we look through, we're looking at the issue mostly of gender and identity. And when you think about how do we talk to an 8-year-old about that biblically without robbing them of their innocence, and also just the depression and anxiety these kids are at the tip of the spear...Teens have long been at the tip of the spear, but the enemy has moved the line backward. And now it's those 8 to 12-year-olds that really are having to grapple with things that their little hearts and minds aren't ready for. But we know how to do that in a way that's safe and biblical and most importantly keeps mom and dad in the driver's seat.The Trends We're Seeing in Gender IdentityKerry: That is so good. And I know I'm on y'all's True Girl mailing list, and so they have things and I have downloaded a few things just to find out exactly what they are. I'm giving my daughter some of y'all's books as well. I think it's the Lies Young Girls Believe, something like that. I'm not quite sure what it was.But I do have to tell you, all of a sudden I have one more connection with you because I grew up with Child Evangelism Fellowship and I became a believer at a Good News Club. I started, went to their CEF training as a teenager, and then we did the five-day clubs in Houston. So I was like, oh wow, that's so interesting. Small world.Dannah: They are a fruitful ministry. Look at us—we're passing, we're the fruit, we're passing on fruit. We're the fruit of their fruit.Kerry: My parents, they're in their 70s and 80s, and a while back they would lead Good News Clubs in the public school for like five years. They're still going on with it and all. So I love it. It does work.So okay, so we are in a just a strange time. And if you had asked us 30 years ago, we'd be going, "No way, we wouldn't be dealing with these issues." So what kind of trends are you seeing right now when it comes to gender identity and sexuality?Dannah: Well, you know, I would say heterosexual is definitely not in style. And what we see is a lot of teens claiming to be pansexual, where they're just willing to erase anything that has a baseline of truth to it and embrace everything. Basically, is what pansexuality is.A lot of teens in terms of gender are saying they're non-binary. That's just what's in style right now. And you might say, "Well, but there really is a problem. There are some kids that definitely struggle with gender dysphoria."Absolutely, that's true. Historically, we've known for decades that children—a very, very small percentage of them—are born with things like Klinefelter syndrome, fragile X syndrome. These are syndromes like Down syndrome where there are chromosomal abnormalities in that child's body.And the parents and the physicians have to work together to decide, how are we going to raise this child? Most cases, they can take a blood test and they can determine this child is clearly male or clearly female. But we have some issues that we're going to have to deal with because of these syndromes.But in most cases, they can really figure out what's happening there. And so that's the good news. But I think it's an important thing for us that we have to be compassionate because for some people that you meet on the street that you're not quite sure—are they male or female?—that's not a choice. It was something that they were born with. That's very difficult and painful. So we have to be careful.But on the other end of the spectrum, what we're seeing right now is—well, let me explain it this way. In about the year 2011, there was a shift from transgenderism being predominantly a male problem to now, it is today predominantly female. You see more teenage females transitioning than males.So the intellectually honest sociologists will say, "What happened to make that really dramatic shift happen?"And I think probably the person that's been bravest about it is a woman named Abigail Shrier. She's a journalist, not a believer as far as I know, conservative though, and yet very intellectually honest. Some parents kept writing to her and saying, "We need somebody to research this."And she brought together some of the bravest sociologists, some of the bravest intellectually honest ones. And what they found was clusters of girls transitioning. So in other words, a school district or a school or a city was seeing a lot of girls transitioning, and there were pops of this all over the United States.Now if this were a more intellectually honest occurrence, you would have seen it happening more evenly over the culture. But that's not the case. What's happening is cluster contagion. And that's what we're calling it now, which basically is peer pressure causing girls to say, "I don't feel comfortable in my body."Now let me remind you, there aren't very many of us that felt super comfortable in our body in seventh grade. But we weren't having somebody sit there next to us and telling us that might be because you're not really a girl.So I guess what we're seeing is a lot of confusion. Majority of what we're seeing is mass confusion that we need to prepare our children for and that we need to speak into truthfully. But we can't forget the compassion because there's a sliver of people struggling right now where this really is a deeply painful thing and not something that they chose.Why This Topic Is Critical Right NowKerry: That is something. So I mean, to me it seems pretty obvious, but why do you think this topic is so important right now?Dannah: Well, it's—let me say, take that from two angles. One reason it's important is because your children are being lied to, and we need to speak truth into their hearts and into their minds. We have to put so much truth into them that there's not room for the world's lies.When they see or hear a counterfeit, they immediately know, "That's not what I learned from God's Word. That's not what I learned from my parents whom I trust to be true." And they come to you and they say, "Hey, I just heard this." And you help—might not know the answers, but you help them figure out.But here's why I think it's really important, and this is why it's been important since the beginning of time. In Genesis 1:26 and 27-28, in that chapter we see God saying that He's made us in His image. And then He could have listed almost anything about us that would have made us like Him—our language proficiency, our ability to compose sonnets, our creativity, the fact that we would figure out how to defy gravity and fly to the moon. All these things about us are so God-like. Our even our emotions—animals are emotive, but not to the degree that we are.And yet God says one thing: "In the image of God He created them, male and female He created them."Our maleness and our femaleness is a distinct part of representing the image of God on this lost world. That's why it matters more than anything. And that's what our children need to know more than anything.How Parents Can Communicate God's TruthKerry: That is so good. I mean, it really is. We need to—and I love what y'all do is always going back to the Bible, you know. And this is a Christian conference. There's plenty of things out there for parents, but we want to make sure we're always going back to the Bible.So what are some things that parents could do? Like you want them to—one of the things that I know I've heard you say many times, we need to speak truth to our soul, but first we have to teach our kids what the truth is. How can parents communicate God's truth in regards to gender and sexuality and identity?Dannah: Well, I obviously encourage them to get them in the Word and some of these key passages that talk about our bodies. And I basically have three key passages that I think our kids need to study about this. I write about them in It's Great to Be a Girl. My husband and one of his co-authors writes about them in It's Great to Be a Guy. That's for kids aged 8 to 12, somewhere in that range.First one is in the book of 1 Corinthians. It says that our bodies exist to glorify God. That the purpose of our body is to glorify God. You know, we get really sidetracked and we think our bodies are for us to feel good, for us to feel pleasure, for us to look good and be this just vision of beauty or handsomeness, whatever it is.Our bodies were created to glorify God. That's why they exist—to showcase Him, to give honor to Him. That's why we dress carefully and tastefully and modestly. That's why we use language that's becoming and careful. That's why we don't get into the dark.I'm always concerned when we get into really dark-looking countenance and clothings and styles because Jesus is light and He is love and He is joy, and we want our countenance to reflect that. But my body doesn't exist for Dannah. My body exists for God.Then the second thing is the one I just mentioned earlier: Genesis 1:26 and 27, that the purpose of my body—how I glorify God—is as a female or male image-bearer. Because glorifying Him—I like to say that the moon glorifies the sun, okay? The moon doesn't have any light of its own, but it reflects the light of the sun, and that's why we have a full moon. They're so beautiful.Well, in the same way, we have to look like God. That's what glorifying Him means. And Genesis 1:26-27 says we do that best in the defined roles, the binary roles of maleness and femaleness. So they matter. They're important.And then the other verse that I think is really important is in Romans 12:1 and 2. It says, "I beg you brothers, by the mercy of God, that you present your body as a living sacrifice."So when my body, which was created to glorify God, doesn't feel like glorifying God as a female image-bearer of God, it becomes a sacrifice to God because I choose to live sacrificially according to the purpose of my body as a female image-bearer.Now I don't know that those are the only passages that your children need to get into, but those are three of the big ones that they need to memorize, dissect, be familiar with, understand. And that's going to give them more than studying all the counterfeits. That's going to give them the fuel they need for the conversations that are going to come up in their lives at one point or another.Age-Appropriate Conversations About TruthKerry: That's so good. Because we don't know what's going to happen in 20 years, you know, and what things they're going to need to know.When you think about even these three passages or talking about truth at different ages, because you've talked about 8 to 12 and then we've got teenagers, would you approach them differently or do you have any suggestions about that?Dannah: Well, with teens, of course, I'm going to be a lot more forthright. Although more and more—we just had a mom communicate with us that her child is attending a private school, not a Christian school but a private school. And just this year, the daughter came home and said, "Hey, we have Teacher X teaching at our school." And I'm not going to say the name. And it's not Mr. X or Mrs. X, it's Teacher X.And of course this mom said, "Well, do you know if Teacher X is male or female?" And she kind of said, "Well, this is what I think, but that's probably—they're trying not to look that way." So there's obviously some gender confusion there.What was really interesting is that when they have a student teacher, this parent had previously gotten a letter that said, "This is the teacher, this is what you need to know about them, I want to introduce them to you, they'll be starting on this date, they'll be ending on this date." In this case, that didn't happen.So that child is in about fifth grade. So we're not—and I've heard in my own school district of kindergarteners who are being told, "You get to pick your pronoun in my class. Maybe you weren't allowed that opportunity at home, but in my class you get to choose what you are, who you are."And so more and more we are having to have more of a conversation that we want, especially if we've chosen for our children not to be homeschooled or not to be in a space where their teaching is governed by truth. And that's not you, but it may be your friends, and it may be someone you're conversing with or having coffee with, you know, needs to know—hey, some crazy stuff is happening in some of these schools.And they don't believe it until it hits them. And then that's how this mom was. She's like, "I heard about it in California and I heard about it in this state and that state, but my state?" Yes, your state.So I think it's really important that we let them drive the questions though. So at high school we maybe are being, you know, we're talking about transgenderism, we're talking about all the different language that is used—the LGBTQ+, non-binary, binary, pansexuality.Mom, dad, you got to do some vocabulary work on this one. You've got to know the words, and that's going to help build your credibility. If you have a child who has been exposed, if you don't know a word, just say, "I'm not really sure what pansexuality is. Let's look it up and learn together, and then we're going to go to God's Word and figure out what He says about it."But when you're under, I would say 12 years old, I would just stick to God's truth. And what you're going to find, and what we have found as we have taken moms and daughters through It's Great to Be a Girl online Bible study or It's Great to Be a Guy online Bible study, is that studying it in the Bible and having mom and dad sitting there talking with you about it brings up the questions.They'll say, "I heard that so-and-so down the street has two dads," or "I heard that this friend at church has a brother who's becoming a sister." And you have the opportunity then to talk to them about that stuff.But I really like to let them drive that rather than us introducing things. And there's such a fine line there. And what I want to say is we don't—we have to be very careful about being afraid of the topic of sex because God isn't. He's not afraid of the topic, and we don't need to be afraid of it.But there are developmental phases where our children are more ready for some of these things than others. And if you can delay some of these conversations until they are developmentally ready, I think that's wise.The Importance of Reclaiming Biblical SexualityKerry: I think that's really good. And I appreciate you saying that we need to talk to them about sexuality more than just what sex is or how do we have kids, that type of thing. Because I know I heard on one of y'all's podcasts, you know, if we don't reclaim the sexuality and what's going on, the world is going to take over, which is what it's doing. And the church really does need to understand it. And if moms and dads don't, they need to do some research and stuff.Dannah: Well, and Ephesians 5:31 and 32 says, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." And then it's almost like the Apostle Paul has ADHD or something. Because it's like he changes the subject. He says, "I'm really talking about Christ and the church."And this verse probably more than any other in Scripture tells us that marriage is meant to be a picture of the love Christ has for His bride, the church. But you can see that taught from Genesis to Revelation. It's a very important picture in the body of Christ.And if we do not wake up to really protect and defend that picture, we're going to wake up one day to see the gospel completely marginalized—not just marriage, but the gospel.And I guess my question for all of us is: if sex and marriage really does represent the love of Christ, the gospel, how motivated is Satan to see that picture destroyed in our lives, in the lives of our children? We have to be vigilant. We have to be informed. And we have to be so full of grace for those moments when we mess up or our kids mess up.Navigating With Grace and CompassionKerry: Yeah. And I think you just said that—I was coughing—grace and patience. Because you're talking about having compassion for these people that are really dealing with issues. And I think sometimes the church gets so, "Oh my goodness, look at them, they have children that are homosexuals or whatever."And yet we—I mean, no, we don't tolerate—I mean there's a blend between tolerating, but we also need to show grace at times because the compassion of God is what draws people back. The kindness and stuff. Would you have anything to say about sort of where you draw the line? And not that we want to judge people, but we do want to come alongside.So we've got moms here that want to help with their kids, but then they may have people in their family or in their church or something. What are maybe some practical things that they could do to handle these situations?Dannah: Well, some practical things are teaching our kids grace. Teaching them a gracious response.Bob and I, my husband and I, discipled a young man for many years who is non-binary now. Young adult man. And we still will have lunch with him. He doesn't live locally, but when he's coming through, he still wants to visit with us and talk with us.I got a birthday text from him that said, "You're like my second mom," because we have blessed him with our love and our presence, which is genuine. It's not fake. We adore him. He is easy to talk to, intelligent. We had so many high hopes for how he would—and still do—influence people for Christ.But we do not—we accept, but we do not affirm. We accept, but we do not affirm.So he knows—one of the last big conversations we had about his journey into homosexuality and a non-binary lifestyle was very pointed where my husband said, "I believe you've been set apart, and I believe that you have different desires, and that you have to obey the Lord with Romans 12:1 and 2. You need to sacrifice your desires for the purpose of your body glorifying Christ."And it was a very pointed conversation. And we haven't talked about that since then, but he knows where we stand.So we're honest, you know. One of the things that's really a challenge right now is the question of pronouns, right? Do we use the pronouns or do we not use the pronouns?And with this individual, I avoid using pronouns because the pronouns he wants are "they" and "them." I will not do that because God's Word commands me not to lie, and it's not truthful. However, I'm not going to rub salt in a wound of all the struggles that he's walking through.So I do my best to navigate through just not using either his new name that he wants or the pronouns. He knows that's what I'm doing.I know another woman who—she did transition for nine years. She had her breasts cut off, she had hormones, she was bearded, she was talking like a guy, she lived as Jake for nine years. Her name was Laura.Her mom stayed on her knees, stayed in a prodigal prayer group. And when it came to the name—she wanted to be called Jake—her mom said, "I can't call you that, but I know it's going to offend you. Can I call you honey? I'll do that."And it was a compromise they made together. So you see, accepting but not affirming is a really important line we have to make.Because this is the question that Rosaria Butterfield asked in a recent book that she's written. I believe the title is Five Lies of Our Post-Christian Culture. But she says, "Is your church, is your home, is your family a safe place for someone to repent of their sin of homosexuality or gender—" I'm not going to call it confusion, but rebellion. Okay?Because gender confusion, I would say, is probably going back to some of those syndromes I'm talking about, right? You're going to feel some confusion when you're not quite sure how your body is showing up, right?But gender rebellion, I would say, is what my friend Laura went through. She knew she was a girl, but she wanted to stick it to her mom and stick it to God. And she did for nine years. And then the Lord got a hold of her heart.But partly, I think the Lord got a hold of her heart because her mom never accepted Jake, never accepted the lie, never used the pronouns. And yet she still loved and accepted the child.Kerry: Fine line.Dannah: So good.The Reality of Dealing With These IssuesKerry: Yeah, we've got to love. And I, for one, I mean, these aren't just teenagers. You know, I had friends whose kids have transitioned, and the parents, the mom and the dad don't even agree on the pronoun issue, you know. And that's a really hard thing.What I really like about what you just said is she communicated with her daughter and they talked about it instead of just doing this and then, you know, that child getting angry and then blocking them out of your life kind of thing. And so communication just seems to be vital as well, even if they're going down that path.Dannah: Yeah, so communication before and after is key. And it's not easy. It's hard. And there'll be tears on both sides and disagreements. But you want to walk through it in such a way that you maintain a place where they know what the truth is and they know where to come when they finally do understand what the truth is.Kerry: Yeah, I always tell—because I host a prodigal prayer group too—and the two things I'm always like, we can always love and we can always pray. You know, we cannot change them, but we can pray and we can never give up. You know, God's not giving up on us, so we shouldn't be giving up on our kids or other family.Dannah: Yeah. And you know, when it comes to praying, I find that people that I love that aren't walking with the Lord—they might be offended if I start asking them, "Who do you think Jesus is?" But they're never offended when I say, "How can I pray for you?"They might define it differently, but it keeps that door open of them knowing, "I care about your spirit. I care about your spiritual life. I care about you." They know that praying is important to me.And when I just say, "How can I pray for you?" their hearts often just flood open with things that they want prayer for.How Did We Get Here?Kerry: That's a really good point too. Okay, let's—how have we talked about all this? How do we get where we are today? Because, you know, like we said, 30 years ago we would have never thought—yeah, you know, there was homosexuality back then, but that was pretty much it. How do we get here?Dannah: Oh, I think that it's how we got here is, you know, we were an Augustinian worldview. The United States of America had this worldview that was predominantly established by Augustine, St. Augustine of Hippo. He believed that love was the highest good in humanity and that that love should be reflective of the truth of the Bible.And that really was the worldview of our culture. And that meant that there was one man and one woman marriage.And then when it really started to break down, honestly, was Freud, who felt that the highest good was sex. He thought that that was the highest need in a human body. And so the conversation started to change as Freud, who did bring us some decent diagnostic tools in terms of understanding and being more aware of our emotions and our mental health—but psychology doesn't do anything, really, if you look at the stats of recovery from psychological methods. Hardly anything outside of Jesus.I mean, single-digit recovery. In my mind, if I'm having some mental health problems, I don't want to go to a place that can give me a single-digit percentage chance of getting better.But then enter Alfred Kinsey. Alfred Kinsey came into the scene, and he was a very unwell man emotionally and mentally. And so he was really excited about the things that Freud taught and believed that he could prove that not only was his theory correct—that our highest need was sex—but that most of the sexual things that these prudish Americans thought were, quote-unquote, sinful were actually very normal behavior. Things like homosexuality and even pedophilia.And he said, "I'm going to prove that those are okay." So he did the Human Sexuality Volume 1 and Volume 2 reports. And his research was really horrific. He hired pedophiles who had been jailed for pedophilia to conduct experiments on children.And it was really child sexual abuse that was recorded in those volumes. But nobody talked about that. Nobody said who did the research and how did you get it done. At that time, it just became the playbook for the sexual revolution of the '60s.But they said, "Look, look, we do want sex. We do need sex." And then the sexual revolution—during that time, a virgin in college named Hugh Hefner read those volumes that Kinsey wrote and said—and this is a quote—"I'm going to be Kinsey's pamphleteer."And as you know, then he went on to create his pamphlet, which was Playboy, normalizing objectifying women. I'm not going to call it anything other than what it is.And so it was this—it was a lie we all wanted to believe. Not me, not you, but the culture wanted to believe because it justified their sin and their desires instead of controlling them. They could justify those sins and desires.And I think when we had about a 30-year climb to making gay marriage legal, but that was kind of a floodgate moment. You know, I feel like from the night that the White House was covered in rainbow colors until today, it's just been a floodgate of Sodom and Gomorrah-esque sin.And whereas it was this slow, steady climb for decades, now it's just a playground.Signs of Hope and BacklashDannah: Now, I am thankful that we're seeing some—I guess what I would call backlash against some of this. In Canada, this year—last year, rather—we saw the first case where a patient who underwent transgender gender reassignment surgery is suing the physician for what happened to her body.Because she said, "I came to you with a mental health problem, and when I was very mentally unwell, you told me the solution was to cut up my body." And she's suing that doctor.Tavistock, which is a gender assignment clinic in the UK, has been shut down because so many of the doctors and nurses are saying, "You only saw these patients two or three times before you let them self-diagnose that they were gender-confused and began treating them." And the doctors and nurses said, "That's not okay. We didn't adequately find out if they really did have gender dysphoria. We're just letting them self-assign."And that's still happening in the United States. But because Canada and the UK are ahead of us, I'm encouraged that we're going to start to see backlash very soon.So don't stop using the correct pronouns. Don't stop calling girls "she" and "her," and don't stop calling boys "him" and "his." Like, we are not crazy. We just feel crazy because the conversation happening in our culture is a little mad.But we are going to start to see a backlash in the next five to 10 years.Kerry: It sounds depressing, but it is encouraging.Dannah: And our hope is in Jesus, who we know can—always, just like I didn't think the education system could ever get fixed, and then COVID hit. And I was like, "Oh my goodness, look, God can do something when it looks like everything's falling apart."He can do the same thing with the gender and sexuality issues. And—excuse me—and even our hope isn't even in this world. I just have to say that. Like, more and more, as it gets crazier and crazier, it makes me hungrier for heaven and the new heaven and earth that we will know after Jesus' return.And for anybody, you know, who maybe you're listening to this and you're the one that cut up your body, you allowed that to happen—you know, when Jesus returns, the new heaven and the new earth, He's going to perfect you and receive you as He created you and fix everything that this world can't fix. And there is such hope in that.Kerry: That is so good. Thank you so much. And yes, He can. And He redeems ashes to beauty all the time. So amen.So I know y'all have some resources that I think would be helpful. Could you share a little bit about that?Resources to Help FamiliesDannah: Sure. Well, I mentioned It's Great to Be a Girl and It's Great to Be a Guy. Those are two books that we take parents and kids through an online study on, but you could do it at home. You can do it as part of a homeschool curriculum.Another book that I have is Lies Girls Believe and A Mom's Guide to Lies Girls Believe. Those go together because I think this extends beyond gender. It's a battle for truth.And the interesting thing about truth is that we know Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." He was truth. So this whole conversation is an assault on Him.And so that book, and Lies Young Women Believe, introduced teen girls and tween girls to really studying: What is truth? What does it mean? And how do I figure out when I'm believing a lie? And what God's Word says about it, and what is true?So I would say those are really important books. We're working on Lies Young Men Believe, but we also—my friend Aaron Davis just wrote Lies Boys Believe. So good tools.We've had lots of friends tell us they've used them as homeschool curriculum. And I would love to see you explore them. They are great. They really are.Kerry: I have—well, I've done Lies Women Believe. And then I will say, too, for those of you—this probably doesn't pertain to a lot of you—but they have them in Spanish. I used to work in El Salvador and go down there once a month and work with a school down there. And we started with Lies Women Believe, but they had a teen girl Bible study, so then they did the Lies Young Women Believe.I don't know if they've done the girl, but when I was looking at your site, I was like, "Oh, they have Spanish books too." So if y'all are in another country, just know that there are resources for you there as well.Dannah: So wonderful.Closing EncouragementKerry: Well, as we close, is there anything you would like to say just in closing?Dannah: Just I think it's so important right now that we are just so deeply in love with Jesus. It's one thing to know all these things in our head, right? But until it gets here...The reason we have prodigals prodigalizing and the reason we have deconstructors deconstructing is because there was a lot here, but we didn't quite maybe get it here. And so what I'm learning is that I can't push it here in the kids I'm teaching, but I can do what I need to do to sit at the feet of Jesus and minister to Him in worship, in prayer, and opening the Word.I don't want to just know the facts of what I read in my Bible this morning. I want to know that I had an encounter with Jesus.So my prayer for you is not just that you would know the facts about all these hard conversations that we're having to have right now, but that more than anything else, you would be so in love with Jesus that your heart beats to reflect His image.And so I pray that for you, and I pray that for your children too.Kerry: Oh, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Thanks for just taking a little time out of your day to be with us. I really appreciate it.Dannah: Oh, it was so good to be here, Kerry. Thank you. God bless you. I pray that you're so blessed by this conference.Kerry: Very good. Well, I am Kerry Beck with Life Skills Leadership Summit. We'll talk to you next time.

How do we reach the next generation with the Gospel in an increasingly digital, distracted world?In this inspiring episode of The Covenant Eyes Podcast, host Karen Potter sits down with Fred Pry, a leader from Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) — one of the largest and most effective global children's ministries — to talk about how they are reaching children with the love of Jesus Christ in over 200 countries.

School officials must give CEF's clubs equal access as other similarly situated clubs operated by non-religious groups. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that public schools cannot discriminate against Christian viewpoints regarding use of school facilities. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org.

Fred Pry is Vice President of Administration for Child Evangelism Fellowship, an international, nonprofit, Christian ministry that is dedicated to see every child reached with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, discipled and established in a local church. Sadly, every 47 seconds, a child is abused or neglected. Also, every 3 hours and 33 minutes a child or teen ends their own life as suicide is the 8th leading cause of death among children ages 5-11. What is bringing such desperation to the lives of some children? Fred pointed to the loss of hope and the influences of the world that provide hollow answers that don't last. There's also the issue of social media. Fred indicated that 40% of children ages 8-12 use social media. This means that these children are impacted by peer pressure, the messages claiming they deserve certain things or that they should look or act in a certain way. Worse yet is the fact that social media can become an addiction and in the end, when the world doesn't deliver, anxiety and depression can set in. As a response, in partnership with local churches, Child Evangelism Fellowship offers its Good News Clubs. Fred described these as one day a week, high powered Sunday schools that meet throughout the school year. While there are over 4,000 such clubs in the U.S. operating in public schools, there are over 70,000 public elementary schools in the U.S. This means your help is needed so that many more children will hear the Gospel. As Jim noted, if we don't reach children, the world's system will.

Fred Pry is Vice President of Administration for Child Evangelism Fellowship, an international, nonprofit, Christian ministry that is dedicated to see every child reached with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, discipled and established in a local church. Sadly, every 47 seconds, a child is abused or neglected. Also, every 3 hours and 33 minutes a child or teen ends their own life as suicide is the 8th leading cause of death among children ages 5-11. What is bringing such desperation to the lives of some children? Fred pointed to the loss of hope and the influences of the world that provide hollow answers that don't last. There's also the issue of social media. Fred indicated that 40% of children ages 8-12 use social media. This means that these children are impacted by peer pressure, the messages claiming they deserve certain things or that they should look or act in a certain way. Worse yet is the fact that social media can become an addiction and in the end, when the world doesn't deliver, anxiety and depression can set in. As a response, in partnership with local churches, Child Evangelism Fellowship offers its Good News Clubs. Fred described these as one day a week, high powered Sunday schools that meet throughout the school year. While there are over 4,000 such clubs in the U.S. operating in public schools, there are over 70,000 public elementary schools in the U.S. This means your help is needed so that many more children will hear the Gospel. As Jim noted, if we don't reach children, the world's system will.

Children in the critical age window are hearing the gospel in public schools! Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org.

On today's Quick Start podcast: NEWS: President Trump sits down with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in what both leaders call their most productive meeting yet, with European allies crediting Trump for pushing Russia closer to dialogue. Plus, thousands are baptized at Pirates Cove in California, and Hurricane Erin prompts evacuations along the Outer Banks. FOCUS STORY: A California school district is ordered to allow Good News Clubs back on campus after losing a legal battle against a Christian organization. MAIN THING: A student's fight over a Bible-based message on her parking spot — Sabrina Steffens and her attorney Keisha Russell from First Liberty join to share the story. LAST THING: Today's verse — Romans 12:12: “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” PRAY WITH US! Faithwire.substack.com SHOW LINKS Faith in Culture: https://cbn.com/news/faith-culture Heaven Meets Earth PODCAST: https://cbn.com/lp/heaven-meets-earth NEWSMAKERS POD: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/newsmakers/id1724061454 Navigating Trump 2.0: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/navigating-trump-2-0/id1691121630

In this episode, host Corey Nathan welcomes investigative journalist and author Katherine Stewart back to the show. Katherine has spent over 15 years researching and reporting on religious nationalism and its impact on American democracy. Her new book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy, exposes the deep financial and ideological networks fueling Christian nationalism and the broader anti-democratic movement. This conversation explores how extreme wealth, disinformation, and religious nationalism are being weaponized against democracy—and what we can do about it.

In this episode, host Corey Nathan welcomes investigative journalist and author Katherine Stewart back to the show. Katherine has spent over 15 years researching and reporting on religious nationalism and its impact on American democracy. Her new book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy, exposes the deep financial and ideological networks fueling Christian nationalism and the broader anti-democratic movement. This conversation explores how extreme wealth, disinformation, and religious nationalism are being weaponized against democracy—and what we can do about it.

Segment 1: Facebook Pledges To Stop Censoring Christian Conservatives Dr. Chaps reports on Facebook's commitment to address concerns about censorship targeting Christian conservative voices. This decision comes amid increasing pressure from advocacy groups defending free speech and religious expression. Learn what this means for Christians on social media. Segment 2: Court Rules Schools Must Allow Bible-Based Good News Clubs In a groundbreaking decision, the courts uphold the rights of Christian clubs like the Good News Clubs to meet in public schools. Dr. Chaps discusses the implications of this ruling and its impact on religious freedom in educational spaces. Segment 3: Pro-Life Employers Can Refuse to Hire Pro-Abortion Advocates Dr. Chaps covers a legal victory for pro-life organizations, as the courts affirm their right to maintain pro-life hiring practices. Discover how this decision upholds the rights of Christian business owners and nonprofit leaders to act in accordance with their faith. Get free alerts at http://PrayInJesusName.org © 2025, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs on NRB TV, Direct TV Ch.378, Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, GoogleTV, Smart TV, iTunes and www.PrayInJesusName.org

The Good News Clubs now will continue in this state. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org.

In a victory for equal access, Liberty Counsel received a preliminary injunction on behalf of Good News Clubs. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org.

On today's Quick Start podcast: NEWS: Trump Pick Receiving Major Pushback FOCUS STORY: Big Victory for Good News Clubs MAIN THING: Border Patrol Agents Surge in Optimism With Trump Victory LAST THING: 1 Peter 3 SHOW LINKS 2024: https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/campaign-notebook-after-trump-nh-win-fat-lady-singing NEWSMAKERS POD: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/newsmakers/id1724061454 DC DEBRIEF POD: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d-c-debrief/id1691121630 CBN News YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CBNnewsonline CBN News https://www2.cbn.com/news Faithwire https://www.faithwire.com/ Email us! QuickStartPodcast@cbn.org

Katherine Stewart is an expert who has been investigating religious nationalism for over 15 years. Given the impact of Christian Nationalism on churches around the country as well as on our democracy, this conversation comes at a critical time. The discussion delves into Katherine's insights from her recent book, THE POWER WORSHIPPERS and the upcoming MONEY, LIES AND GOD: INSIDE THE MOVEMENT TO DESTROY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. Discover the controversial role of Good News Clubs in public schools which she covered in her 2017 book; the strategies driving the Christian nationalist agenda; and the broader implications for American democracy. We also take a moment to highlight the importance of respectful dialogue on politics and religion, especially during family gatherings like Thanksgiving.   02:59 The Good News Club Controversy 06:19 Impact on Public Schools 16:50 Christian Nationalism Explained 22:47 Investigative Journalism Insights 26:01 Economic Grievances and Voting Behavior 26:48 Christian Nationalist Influence 30:11 Leonard Leo's Plans to Weaponize Right Wing Policies 33:17 Pushing Back Against Christian Nationalism 37:41 Finding Common Ground in Political Conversations 44:02 Conclusion and Final Thoughts   katherinestewart.me   We're on YouTube!  https://www.youtube.com/@politicsandreligion   It would mean so much if you could leave us a review: https://ratethispodcast.com/goodfaithpolitics   Let us know what you think. You can find Corey on all the socials @coreysnathan such as Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/coreysnathan.bsky.social    We're on Patreon! Join the community:  https://www.patreon.com/politicsandreligion   Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.   Very grateful for our sponsor Meza Wealth Management. Reach out to Jorge and his team: www.mezawealth.com

Katherine Stewart is an expert who has been investigating religious nationalism for over 15 years. Given the impact of Christian Nationalism on churches around the country as well as on our democracy, this conversation comes at a critical time. The discussion delves into Katherine's insights from her recent book, THE POWER WORSHIPPERS and the upcoming MONEY, LIES AND GOD: INSIDE THE MOVEMENT TO DESTROY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. Discover the controversial role of Good News Clubs in public schools which she covered in her 2017 book; the strategies driving the Christian nationalist agenda; and the broader implications for American democracy. We also take a moment to highlight the importance of respectful dialogue on politics and religion, especially during family gatherings like Thanksgiving.   02:59 The Good News Club Controversy 06:19 Impact on Public Schools 16:50 Christian Nationalism Explained 22:47 Investigative Journalism Insights 26:01 Economic Grievances and Voting Behavior 26:48 Christian Nationalist Influence 30:11 Leonard Leo's Plans to Weaponize Right Wing Policies 33:17 Pushing Back Against Christian Nationalism 37:41 Finding Common Ground in Political Conversations 44:02 Conclusion and Final Thoughts   katherinestewart.me   We're on YouTube!  https://www.youtube.com/@politicsandreligion   It would mean so much if you could leave us a review: https://ratethispodcast.com/goodfaithpolitics   Let us know what you think. You can find Corey on all the socials @coreysnathan such as Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/coreysnathan.bsky.social    We're on Patreon! Join the community:  https://www.patreon.com/politicsandreligion   Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.   Very grateful for our sponsor Meza Wealth Management. Reach out to Jorge and his team: www.mezawealth.com

Serving in the Gulf War, Andy prayed for the chance to combine his service to his country with his service to his Lord. God answered! Today, Andy serves military families through Good News Clubs! Listen to Andy Bunn, Military Children's Ministry director, Child Evangelism Fellowship, share how you also can support veterans.

This is a great victory for Child Evangelism Fellowship, parents, and the students in Hawaii public schools. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org. 

It's Tuesday, July 2nd, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes and heard at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Kevin Swanson and Adam McManus Namibia, Africa decriminalizes homosexual behavior Last week, the high court of the Southern African nation of Namibia struck down a colonial law banning homosexual behavior in the country.   Last year, the same court legitimized homosexual faux marriage for a bi-national couple.   Homosexual behavior is criminalized in 30 African countries, and allowed in 24 countries now. Supreme Court: Trump has limited immunity from prosecution The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday in favor of the former President, in relation to his post-election activities on January 6th, 2021, reports LifeSiteNews.com. By a vote of 6 to 3, the high court granted Donald Trump immunity for official acts taken in his role as president of the United States. The majority on the court agreed with Trump's appeal. The decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, concluded that: “The President is not above the law. But under our system of separated powers, the President may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts.” What remains to be answered is which actions taken after the 2020 election by the president were official and which were unofficial. This question is remanded to the lower courts. House Speaker Mike Johnson called the decision “a victory for former President Trump.” And the Biden campaign said the decision has handed Trump "the keys to a dictatorship," reports the New York Post. Supreme Court deals blow to regulation stranglehold   In other Supreme Court news, the high court has rendered the regulatory bureaucracy a serious setback in the United States.   Friday's decision overturned the 1984 decision Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc., — which to this point had allowed federal bureaucracies extensive latitude for interpreting law and implementing regulations. Poll: Donald – 44%, Biden – 41% The latest Non-Partisan Patriot Polling puts Donald Trump ahead of Joe Biden in the presidential race,  44% to 41%. The current president's rating has also dropped off from 33% to 29%. And 76% of prospective voters polled say Donald Trump won last Thursday's debate. Colonel Macgregor: Biden's cognitive decline means US gov't is in "unelected hands" Speaking of that debate, Retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor has said that “the governing power” of the U.S. lies “in unelected hands” after the first presidential debate highlighting President Joe Biden's cognitive decline to the whole world, reports LifeSiteNews.com. In a 5-minute video message published on the YouTube channel Our Country Our Choice, Col. MacGregor expressed his profound concern for the United States after Biden's catastrophic performance. Listen. MacGREGOR: “President Biden is not fit to discharge the immense duties of the presidency. The alarming evidence of his cognitive decline was on display for all to witness. Yet his enablers and political allies continue to exploit the president to substitute their destructive agenda for the interests of the American people. “The unconscionable betrayal of the sacred trust that must exist between the federal government and American citizens is all around us. Destructive executive orders and policy directives, many of which were likely signed when President Biden was in a rapidly diminished state of mind, inflicting tremendous damage on our nation. “Sadly, President Biden's fragile mental state was laid bare for all to see in last night's debate. His responses were frequently incoherent, he appeared lost even confused, struggling to complete basic thoughts. It was heartbreaking, a spectacle that confirmed our worst fears about his deteriorating capacity.” Col. MacGregor questioned the legitimacy of Biden's executive orders in light of his demonstrable mental incapacity. MacGREGOR: “No individual whose mental health is compromised, should be allowed to continue in the most demanding job on Earth. Americans, we find ourselves at a critical juncture in our nation's journey. In the private sector or in matters of estate planning, the validity of signatures made under such circumstances would be challenged and invalidated in a court of law. “How can we accept crucial national decisions being made under these conditions? The American people deserve better. It is time to ask, ‘Who truly governs this country?' Is it ‘we the people,' as our Founders intended, or have we surrendered control to unelected bureaucrats?” Trump ally Steve Bannon went to jail yesterday Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon was taken into custody yesterday after surrendering at a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. He began his four-month prison sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the events on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol, reports the Associated Press. Speaking to reporters, Bannon called himself a “political prisoner.” BANNON: “I'm a political prisoner of Nancy Pelosi. I'm a political prisoner of Merrick Garland. I'm a political prisoner of Joe Biden, the corrupt Biden establishment. “You saw on Thursday, all the lies that they told any group that would sit there and lie to you about the shape of the President of the United States, with the national security element of that, lied about the 2020 election. They've lied about COVID. They've lied about everything that they've done to the American people and they're not going to stop. Until we stop them, they're not going to stop.”  Court injunction allows Good News Clubs into Hawaiian schools Here's some good news for the Good News Clubs sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship! Since 2022, Hawaii's Department of Education had denied every single request for access Hawaii's primary schools by the Christian Good News Clubs. Liberty Counsel has obtained a court injunction to open access to the Good News clubs in Hawaii, and provide “timely responses to future applications.” In Mark 16:15, Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Good News to every creature.” Criminal illegal immigrants entry to America has quadrupled Criminals entering the borders of the United States have quadrupled since 2019 — in just five years. These are people that had already been convicted of one or more crimes prior to entering America. The official Customs and Border Protection numbers clocked 4,300 arrests in 2019. By contrast, this year that number is approaching 17,000 or an average of 1,459 per month. Banks welcome gold back as a hedge in an uncertain economy Interest in gold as a safe hedge is back, at least for the world banks. For fifty years, between 1960 and 2010, the world banks shed their gold reserves, dropping from 1.23 billion ounces to 960 million ounces. Now, for the last 14 years, the banks have been buying back gold.  There is now 1.15 billion ounces of gold representing about 2.7% of the Gross World Product, reports WolfStreet.com. New Mexico's surgical abortions have tripled Since 2020, the number of abortions performed in New Mexico has tripled.   Most of that is due to women from Texas seeking abortions across the border.  Now, 71% of New Mexican abortions are out-of-state abortions, reports Abortion Free New Mexico. The Word of God is firm on this: “You shall not murder.” (Exodus 20:13) 14 Worldview listeners gave a final $9,600 And finally, between some checks that just arrived in the mail at our P.O. Box and some last minute donations online on Sunday and yesterday, 14 Worldview listeners stepped up to the plate to fund our 6-member team for another fiscal year. Our thanks to Jon in Dewitt, Michigan who gave $50, Johannah in Sedalia, Kentucky who gave $100, as well as Stacy in Metuchen, New Jersey, Michael in Estancia, New Mexico, Moriah, a 16-year-old, in Register, Georgia, and Jonathan in Atascadero, California – each of whom gave $200. We're grateful to LeShun in Newport News, Virgina who gave $250, Charles and Susan in Stroughton, Wisconsin $300, as well as Griffin in Kila, Montana and Shawn in Newaygo, Michigan – both of whom pledged $25/month for 12 months for a gift of $300 each. 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Liberty Counsel has never lost a case involving Good News Clubs. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org. 

On today's program, another person has sued the Assemblies of God and the denomination's college ministry Chi Alpha. The victim, who is blind, claims he was sexually abused by one of the Chi Alpha leaders over the span of five years. We'll have details. Also, Christians are often among the first to give to humanitarian aid nonprofits when a crisis hits—but where does the money go? We talked with some of the biggest ministries, like Samaritan's Purse and World Vision, to find out. And, Compassion International reclassified itself as an association of church with the IRS—meaning they no longer release public form 990s. We'll look deeper into what that means. But first, a legal victory for Child Evangelism Fellowship after their Good News Clubs were kicked out of public schools in Providence, Rhode Island last year. FINAL WORDS:  I also want to remind everyone that we're offering an important new book this month to everyone who donates to MinistryWatch. It's called “End The Reign of Pain – Identifying and Treating Toxic Leadership. It's by Rickardo Bodden, and we'll send it to you absolutely free, as our thank you, for a gift of any size to MinistryWatch this month. Just go to MinistryWatch.com and hit the DONATE button at the top of the page. The producers for today's program are Rich Roszel and Jeff McIntosh.  We get database and other technical support from Stephen DuBarry, Rod Pitzer, and Casey Sudduth. Writers who contributed to today's program include Kim Roberts, Daniel Ritchie, Shannon Cuthrell, Clemente Lisi, Tony Mator, Eric Obernauer, Brittany Smith, and Christina Darnell. Special thanks to Religion UnPlugged and The NonProfit Times for contributing material for this week's podcast. Until next time, may God bless you.

The school district has violated state and federal law by denying these requests. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org. 

Do you long for children in our community to know and experience the Gospel of Christ? Local Child Evangelism Fellowship Director Dawn Wassell will join Seth and Deb to share how Good News Clubs bring the gospel to schoolchildren in our area and how you can help them! Dawn will update us on specific ministry needs and prayer requests as we seek to live out the words of Jesus, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We welcome our youth member and now ministry friend, Lindsay Elston to chat with us about Child Evangelism Fellowship, Good News Clubs, and the importance of ministry in our childhood and in our kids lives! If you like what you hear and want to help, volunteer or have a teen, visit their website : www.cefseindiana.com OR get ahold of Mitch or Kaitlin and we can direct you to Lindsay!

The children of active duty U.S. service members need to hear the gospel message as much as their parents do, and that's where the work of the Child Evangelism Fellowship comes into play. Andy Bunn serves as the organization's Director of Military Children's Ministry, which works to plant “Good News Clubs” on military bases nationwide. They provide weekly activities for kids in addition to special clubs for holidays like Christmas or “5-Day Club,” which is like Vacation Bible School. Andy says what the ministry needs the most to continue to expand its reach is to acquire people who have a desire to see children presented with the good news of the gospel and are willing to commit to helping the program run smoothly. TAKEAWAYS CEF helps children of active duty service members experience a smoother relocation experience because of the welcoming clubs Kids tend to be generally more receptive and excited about hearing the gospel message than adults Luke 10:2 is CEF's mission that guides their approach to expanding their ministry with hopes of acquiring three more clubs by December Most of CEF's ministry is done in an after school setting on base

In this episode, Brendan Troost joins me for part 2 of our discussion to talk about the core reasons CEF does not talk a lot about baptism in Good News Clubs. We also delve into the simplicity of the gospel message and the Holy Spirit living inside of children after they receive salvation. Fellowship One:Seven™ is a biblical podcast from Child Evangelism Fellowship®. On the podcast, we discuss God's calling to share the Gospel with children around the world. We explore the biblical foundation of CEF®, discuss Scripture, and examine topics and truths found in those passages. We interview various individuals involved in the ministry and discuss how CEF has played a part in their lives in reaching children with the Gospel. 1 John 1:7 – But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. To find more content from Fellowship One:Seven, visit https://www.cefonline.com/fellowshiponeseven/ For more help on evangelizing and discipling children, see Articles, Ministries, and Store at https://www.cefonline.com/. For additional digital resources for kids, visit U-Nite at https://www.cefonline.com/unite Child Evangelism Fellowship is a Bible-centered organization whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living.

Liberty Counsel has represented approximately 200 CEF cases nationally and has never lost a case involving Good News Clubs. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org

Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) is actively fighting to put Good News Clubs in public schools to teach children about the Bible, prayer, and Christianity, said Moises Esteves, CEF Executive Vice President, to Alex Newman on Conversations that Matter. When a Good News Club thrives in a school, Esteves explained, Satanist clubs founded by Lucien Greaves, ... The post Christian Organization Combating After-School Satanic Clubs with Bible Clubs appeared first on The New American.

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There are just over 8 billion people on earth and according to World Population Review, an estimated 2 billion of those are children between the ages of 0-14. This means it's critical that children be reached with the Gospel message. One such group that's focusing on this demographic is Child Evangelism Fellowship. Through their Good News Clubs and other outreach efforts, they have a vision of reaching every child, every nation, every day. --Moises Esteves is Executive Vice President of Child Evangelism Fellowship. He was born and raised in Portugal, was saved at the age of 9, and at the age of 17 felt God's call into vocation ministry.--In 2001, the Supreme Court decided by a 6-3 vote, in favor of Child Evangelism Fellowship in the case of Good News Clubs v. Milford Central School. The court said it was constitutional for CEF to hold Good News Clubs in public schools after the last bell rings and that they could not be discriminated against because of their religious content. --Each child must have a parental permission slip in order to attend. The gatherings run for an hour to an hour and 15 minutes after the school day has ended. During this time children are taught a Bible lesson, they sing songs, there are games, and sometimes there's a missionary story.--In the past year in the U.S., CEF ministered to 102,000 children, although they're still rebuilding post-COVID. That's about 2,600 clubs in the public schools with an additional 1,000 clubs in other locations.--On this broadcast you'll hear about- ---- The importance of local church partnership with CEF.-- The 4-14 window. - -...and much more-

There are just over 8 billion people on earth and according to World Population Review, an estimated 2 billion of those are children between the ages of 0-14. This means it's critical that children be reached with the Gospel message. One such group that's focusing on this demographic is Child Evangelism Fellowship. Through their Good News Clubs and other outreach efforts, they have a vision of reaching every child, every nation, every day. --Moises Esteves is Executive Vice President of Child Evangelism Fellowship. He was born and raised in Portugal, was saved at the age of 9, and at the age of 17 felt God's call into vocation ministry.--In 2001, the Supreme Court decided by a 6-3 vote, in favor of Child Evangelism Fellowship in the case of Good News Clubs v. Milford Central School. The court said it was constitutional for CEF to hold Good News Clubs in public schools after the last bell rings and that they could not be discriminated against because of their religious content. --Each child must have a parental permission slip in order to attend. The gatherings run for an hour to an hour and 15 minutes after the school day has ended. During this time children are taught a Bible lesson, they sing songs, there are games, and sometimes there's a missionary story.--In the past year in the U.S., CEF ministered to 102,000 children, although they're still rebuilding post-COVID. That's about 2,600 clubs in the public schools with an additional 1,000 clubs in other locations.--On this broadcast you'll hear about- ---- The importance of local church partnership with CEF.-- The 4-14 window. - -...and much more-

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Liberty Counsel has never lost a case involving Good News Clubs. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved, visit LC.org

Child Evangelism Fellowship is well known to people in the heartland. Good News Clubs have been a part of local schools for years with great success. But as News Director Delvin Kinser shows us, this powerful ministry is not resting on its laurels when it comes to the future.

Yet the Providence Public School District allows Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Girls on the Run. Constitutional expert, lawyer, author, pastor, and founder of Liberty Counsel Mat Staver discusses the important topics of the day with co-hosts and guests that impact life, liberty, and family. To stay informed and get involved - visit LC.org

Katherine Stewart, journalist and author of the book, Power Worshippers, sits down with Tim to discuss Christian Nationalism and Good News Clubs in public schools. Katherine Stewart explains her background and why she began investigating Good News Clubs (part of Child Evangelism). Tim and Katherine talk about what she found in her investigation about the Good News Clubs getting permission to be in public schools and what happened when there was push back by certain schools. Tim and Katherine then discuss how parents were tricked into sending their kids to Good News Clubs and how this ties into the Christian Nationalist agenda. Lastly, what can people do to combat Christian Nationalism? Follow us on Instagram: @thenewevangelicals Support our work Check out Katherine's Book Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

June Everett is Campaign Director for the After School Club, and an ordained minister of The Satanic Temple. In this conversation she shares her personal journey, discusses the After School Satan Clubs, and responds to our prior podcast with Lydia Kaiser of Child Evangelism Fellowship and their Good News Clubs. After School Satan Club: https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/after-school-satan Lydia Kaiser of Child Evangelism Fellowship on the Good News Club: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-jh7nd-13725eb Lucien Greaves on the After School Satan Club: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-zj835-11b1fe6 Stephen Bradford Long on The Satanic Temple: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cv29w-fa8d1c For a good academic discussion of TST see Joseph Laycock's "Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion" (Oxford University Press, 2020). https://www.amazon.com/Speak-Devil-Satanic-Changing-Religion/dp/0190948493 Learn more about our work at https://www.multifaithmatters.org.  Support this work: One-time donation: https://multifaithmatters.org/donate  Become my patron: https://patron.podbean.com/johnwmorehead #AfterSchoolSatan #TheSatanicTemple #Satanism #ChildEvangelismFellowship

Lydia Kaiser, Corporate Communications Specialist for Child Evangelism Fellowship talks about the Good News Clubs in schools, and also responds to the controversy raised by the response of The Satanic Temple to the Clubs and their efforts at putting After School Satan Clubs in schools where the Clubs are present. Good News Club at Child Evangelism Fellowship: https://www.cefonline.com/ministries/goodnewsclub/ Podcast with Lucien Greaves on After School Satan Clubs: https://johnwmorehead.podbean.com/e/lucien-greaves-of-the-satanic-temple-on-after-school-satan-clubs/ For a further exploration of these topics: Stephen Bradford Long on The Satanic Temple: https://youtu.be/bg7TalPZ_Rs For a good academic discussion of TST see Joseph Laycock's Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion (Oxford University Press, 2020) https://www.amazon.com/Speak-Devil-Satanic-Changing-Religion/dp/0190948493 Learn more about our work at https://www.multifaithmatters.org.  Support this work: One-time donation: https://multifaithmatters.org/donate  Become my patron: https://patron.podbean.com/johnwmorehead #GoodNewsClub #ChildEvangelismFellowship #AfterSchoolSatanClub

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Many times on Crosstalk we've described how children are being targeted in our secular culture. Included in that are those influences that are seeking to lure children away from biblical morality, questioning right vs. wrong or even trying to alienate children away from their parents. Then there's the direct indoctrination into aberrant lifestyles with the intent of normalizing that which is abnormal.--In other words, so many children are simply headed in the wrong direction and need to be reached for Jesus. The problem is, who's going to do it---This Crosstalk introduced listeners to an organization that is focused on reaching children in every nation, every day. --Joining Jim were two guests. The first was John Luck, assistant to the president of Child Evangelism Fellowship and the second was Fred Pry. Fred is assistant vice president for Child Evangelism Fellowship.--After a brief overview concerning Jesse Irvin Overholtzer and the history of Child Evangelism Fellowship -CEF-, John described the critical nature of getting children the Gospel at an early age and making sure they understand it.--During the program John and Fred also talked about- --How is CEF impacting Ukraine--What is -SPAN---An update regarding Good News Clubs in the U.S.-The impact of CEF in public schools and how listeners can become engaged.-What are CEF Christmas Party Clubs---John noted 2 particularly important points. First of all, children are the largest segment of the world's population. Approximately one-third -about 2.5 billion people- are kids under the age of 15. Secondly, they are the most fruitful mission field.

Many times on Crosstalk we've described how children are being targeted in our secular culture. Included in that are those influences that are seeking to lure children away from biblical morality, questioning right vs. wrong or even trying to alienate children away from their parents. Then there's the direct indoctrination into aberrant lifestyles with the intent of normalizing that which is abnormal.--In other words, so many children are simply headed in the wrong direction and need to be reached for Jesus. The problem is, who's going to do it----This Crosstalk introduced listeners to an organization that is focused on reaching children in every nation, every day. --Joining Jim were two guests. The first was John Luck, assistant to the president of Child Evangelism Fellowship and the second was Fred Pry. Fred is assistant vice president for Child Evangelism Fellowship.--After a brief overview concerning Jesse Irvin Overholtzer and the history of Child Evangelism Fellowship -CEF-, John described the critical nature of getting children the Gospel at an early age and making sure they understand it.--During the program John and Fred also talked about- --How is CEF impacting Ukraine---What is -SPAN----An update regarding Good News Clubs in the U.S.-The impact of CEF in public schools and how listeners can become engaged.-What are CEF Christmas Party Clubs----John noted 2 particularly important points. First of all, children are the largest segment of the world's population. Approximately one-third -about 2.5 billion people- are kids under the age of 15. Secondly, they are the most fruitful mission field.

Many times on Crosstalk we've described how children are being targeted in our secular culture. Included in that are those influences that are seeking to lure children away from biblical morality, questioning right vs. wrong or even trying to alienate children away from their parents. Then there's the direct indoctrination into aberrant lifestyles with the intent of normalizing that which is abnormal.--In other words, so many children are simply headed in the wrong direction and need to be reached for Jesus. The problem is, who's going to do it---This Crosstalk introduced listeners to an organization that is focused on reaching children in every nation, every day. --Joining Jim were two guests. The first was John Luck, assistant to the president of Child Evangelism Fellowship and the second was Fred Pry. Fred is assistant vice president for Child Evangelism Fellowship.--After a brief overview concerning Jesse Irvin Overholtzer and the history of Child Evangelism Fellowship -CEF-, John described the critical nature of getting children the Gospel at an early age and making sure they understand it.--During the program John and Fred also talked about- --How is CEF impacting Ukraine--What is -SPAN---An update regarding Good News Clubs in the U.S.-The impact of CEF in public schools and how listeners can become engaged.-What are CEF Christmas Party Clubs---John noted 2 particularly important points. First of all, children are the largest segment of the world's population. Approximately one-third -about 2.5 billion people- are kids under the age of 15. Secondly, they are the most fruitful mission field.

Many times on Crosstalk we've described how children are being targeted in our secular culture. Included in that are those influences that are seeking to lure children away from biblical morality, questioning right vs. wrong or even trying to alienate children away from their parents. Then there's the direct indoctrination into aberrant lifestyles with the intent of normalizing that which is abnormal.--In other words, so many children are simply headed in the wrong direction and need to be reached for Jesus. The problem is, who's going to do it----This Crosstalk introduced listeners to an organization that is focused on reaching children in every nation, every day. --Joining Jim were two guests. The first was John Luck, assistant to the president of Child Evangelism Fellowship and the second was Fred Pry. Fred is assistant vice president for Child Evangelism Fellowship.--After a brief overview concerning Jesse Irvin Overholtzer and the history of Child Evangelism Fellowship -CEF-, John described the critical nature of getting children the Gospel at an early age and making sure they understand it.--During the program John and Fred also talked about- --How is CEF impacting Ukraine---What is -SPAN----An update regarding Good News Clubs in the U.S.-The impact of CEF in public schools and how listeners can become engaged.-What are CEF Christmas Party Clubs----John noted 2 particularly important points. First of all, children are the largest segment of the world's population. Approximately one-third -about 2.5 billion people- are kids under the age of 15. Secondly, they are the most fruitful mission field.

Child Evangelism Fellowship has been used by God to bring children and families to Christ since 1937. This ministry continues to share the Good News with children in neighborhoods and public schools through the Good News Clubs and 5-Day Clubs. Illinois CEF State Director Katrina Forseth will join Ken and Deb to share some exciting news about new programs in our community and how CEF is celebrating 85 years of ministry at a special event in November.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's been so much emphasis from psychologists on self-image, that it can make you worry whether any little thing you do will scar a child's self-image for the rest of her life. You may even feel pressure to de-emphasize the child's sin nature. One time a journalist who was writing an article about Good News Clubs in public schools asked me, “Don't you people teach children they're sinners and make them feel bad about themselves?” Today's episode helps with answers about godly self-esteem. To review the content in today's episode, go to https://www.cefonline.com and search the title under Articles. If you like this podcast, please subscribe and share, to help others find it too! For more help on evangelizing and discipling children, see Articles, Ministries, and Shop at https://www.cefonline.com/. See the free and safe Christian app for kids, U-Nite TV, available on Android and iOS devices https://unite.cefonline.com/. Child Evangelism Fellowship is a Bible-centered organization whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living.

Child Evangelism Fellowship of Chattanooga, is part of CEF worldwide. Patti Harris is the Director of CEF locally, and shares about Good News Clubs being held in the area. CEF Chattanooga has established over 90 Clubs in 50 schools, 15 preschool facilities, several community centers, and churches throughout the Tennessee Valley. There is a special Good News Conference that will provide training in evangelism. CLICK HERE for more information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We will never forget the date 9/11/01. Some of us also have the date 6/11/01 etched in our memories forever, because it opened up USA public school buildings to the Gospel. Since then millions of children have been able to attend after-school Good News Clubs and hear about Jesus. But most people still don't know this is legal. To review the content in today's episode, go to https://www.cefonline.com and search the title under Articles. If you like this podcast, please subscribe and share, to help others find it too! For more help on evangelizing and discipling children, see Articles, Ministries, and Shop at https://www.cefonline.com/. See the free and safe Christian app for kids, U-Nite TV, available on Android and iOS devices https://unite.cefonline.com/. Child Evangelism Fellowship is a Bible-centered organization whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and to establish (disciple) them in the Word of God and in a local church for Christian living.

Nancy Thomason loves kids. And she will go wherever they are to tell them the Good News of Jesus. Nancy worked with Child Evangelism Fellowship for 47 years and she loves talking about what God did through those years because the "searchlight is on God." At 84, Nancy's smile hasn't dimmed nor has her open heart and home for everyone who needs to know that God loved them enough to die for them.  Nancy with the Director of Child Evangelism Fellowship at their conference. If you want to serve God and you love kids, hosting a Good News Club may be the very best way to get started. Contact Child Evangelism Fellowship in your area to find out more. I loved hearing Nancy's stories of faith and trust in God as He led her to begin Good News Clubs in her neighborhood, then to Whittier, the San Fernando Valley and South Central LA. She made sure she was ready with a flannel graph story in the trunk of her car and a welcoming smile on her face.   Some Nancy-ism's: "If we are unplugged from God, where will we get our power?" "When God tells you to go, you know He's got you in His hand." "If you don't come to the edge of the cliff and jump, you'll never know that God can hold you." "You don't have an adventure with God without obstacles because that's when God shows up."   Nancy's Acorn Squash Poke some holes in the top of squash Cook in microwave for 10 minutes. Voila! Add butter and brown sugar. Yum!

The Satanic Temple has gathered a lot of media attention and Christian protest for various activities which provide an opportunity for Christians to reflect on the meaning of religious freedom, including that for religious minorities and those who make them feel uncomfortable. In this podcast I talk to Lucien Greaves, the co-founder and spokesperson for The Satanic Temple, about their After School Satan Clubs: what they are, how they relate to various Good News Clubs on school campuses, and how this relates to religious freedom and the public square. For a further exploration of these topics: Lucien Greaves at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LucienGreaves The Satanic Temple: https://thesatanictemple.com/ Stephen Bradford Long on The Satanic Temple: https://youtu.be/bg7TalPZ_Rs John Morehead's appearance on Greaves' podcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/discussion-with-62697704 For a good academic discussion of TST see Joseph Laycock's "Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion" (Oxford University Press, 2020) https://www.amazon.com/Speak-Devil-Satanic-Changing-Religion/dp/0190948493 Learn more about our work at https://www.multifaithmatters.org.  Support this work: One-time donation: https://multifaithmatters.org/donate  Become my patron: https://patron.podbean.com/johnwmorehead

Another year, another life-threatening TikTok challenge involving marinating your chicken breast in Ny-Quil. Children invited to an after-school satan club has parents of the Good News Clubs ready to raise hell. Was getting 11 million TicTok views worth the scare of having a heart attack worth gorging yourself with sushi? Apparently so for one moron. And there's more... Hate Smiling in Photos? Many Opt for a "Surprised Face" or "Kissy Face";  2021 Smashed the Old Record for People Acting Like Morons on Planes;  Tuning out! Viewership at CNN plummets by as much as 90% from last year;  Woman Drives on Frozen River & Took Selfies on Top of Her Sinking Car;  Most Parents Say They Develop ‘Superpowers' After Having a Baby;  First Brand Apology of 2022 Did Not Take Long;  Norway tells conscripts to return underwear after service. And there's more stupidity from the past week's current events as well as more winners for this week's "Genius Awards"! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eriklane/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/eriklane/support

For a ministry that thrives on face-to-face contact, COVID-19 appeared to be a crippling blow. When schools suddenly shut down, over 100,000 Good News Clubs around the world could no longer meet. How do you reach children with God's message of love, life, and hope when you are told to stay home and limit contact with others? Hear this amazing story of how God worked good out of tragedy. For more help to evangelize and disciple children, see the resources at https://cefonline.com

Our good friends from Child Evangelism Fellowship joined us to talk about the important work they are doing in laying a solid foundation for life with the Gospel during the children's  formative years . They host Good News Clubs all over the Nation's Capital and they train others to effectively minister to children.Reverend Richard McPaytenReverend Richard McPayten, son of Kirmon and Ruth McPayten, was raised in Washington D.C.  He attended and graduated from D.C. Public schools.  He subsequently obtained undergraduate degrees from Howard University and Washington Bible College, and a master's degree from Capitol Bible Seminary.   Reverend McPayten has been in the Ministry for 36 years.  In 2008, he spearheaded the Northeast D.C. Prayer-War, which was instrumental in the reduction of murders in the Trinidad community.  He is a former Pastor of Goodwill Baptist Church in upper Northwest D.C. and a Son and Associate of the Bethesda Baptist Church of Washington D.C.  As a prolific Bible teacher and expositor, Reverend McPayten has served as a past professor at Washington Bible College.  He has been associated with Child Evangelism Fellowship for almost 20 years and currently serves as the Executive Vice Chairman of the ministry here in Washington D.C. Reverend McPayten has been married to his beloved Pier for 41 years has two children. Sandra Renee WalkerSandra Renee Walker, referred to as Miss Renee by the children she teaches, joined the staff of Child Evangelism Fellowship® on June 1, 2001, as a full-time missionary.  Several years ago, the Lord called her to missions at a missionary conference at her church.  Her desire is to see many children and families come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior and to see boys and girls grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  As a child, she memorized Proverbs 11:30 which says, “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is wise”; from childhood this message has been in her spirit.  She is a graduate of the Howard University School of Communications, Washington, D.C. and the Children's Ministries Institute™, Warrenton, MO.  Currently, she serves as the Good News Club Coordinator and a Teacher Trainer for Child Evangelism Fellowship of the Greater Washington, DC Metro Area.

Do you long for area students to know that they have a Heavenly Father who knows them and loves them? Child Evangelism Fellowship shares that message in Good News Clubs in area public schools and we get to hear about a special opportunity for you to join in that work. Katrina Forseth tells us about the upcoming training for volunteers that will equip you to be a part of this exciting ministry. Katrina also shares good news stories from the clubs that have been meeting and how they've seen children and families be forever transformed by placing their faith and trust in Jesus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Nichols, state director for Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee, presented this seminar at the 2020 Leadership Conference. Download the notes from the session at https://nafwb.org/leadershipconference/.For more information about Child Evangelism Fellowship and Good News Clubs, visit www.cefoftennessee.com or www.cefonline.com. #NAFWB

Jeff Nichols, state director for Child Evangelism Fellowship of Tennessee, presented this seminar at the 2020 Leadership Conference. Download the notes from the session at https://nafwb.org/leadershipconference/.For more information about Child Evangelism Fellowship and Good News Clubs, visit www.cefoftennessee.com or www.cefonline.com. #NAFWB

Christian Perilous Times - Iran, Social media, Childhood, Hormone blockers, Lebanon, Good News clubs, China persecution, Hindu extremists, India, Nigerian persecution, Ethiopia, Warn Radio | Warn-Usa.com  Christian Perilous Times covers serious issues facing today's believers. This is our endtime report covering pertinate gospel news in the USA, Israel, and hot spots worldwide. Today we discuss Irans ongoing hatred of social meda as believers face prison for it. Also today we look at the bad use of hormone blockers for children who face gender identity. In addition a victory for the Good News clubs. Plus China persecution, Hindu extremists targetting Christians in India have not softened their hatred. Also as time allows these stories will be covered: Nigerian persecution, Ethiopian persecution, and more. Go to our link https://linktr.ee/warnradio for the latest articles and show episodes plus more resources Christian Perilous Times are three words describing the ongoing troubles faced by believers in Jesus Christ. Even in America there are many issues here. But here, we still have rule of law that makes it harder to get away with lawlessness in this arena. Yet overseas believers face prison over social media, persecution and death also are companions. Dangers abound in many places of the world. Christians are not safe.  To get the Books from the Watchman Dana G Smith go to his website http://www.DanaGlennSmith.com

Christian Perilous Times - Iran, Social media, Childhood, Hormone blockers, Lebanon, Good News clubs, China persecution, Hindu extremists, India, Nigerian persecution, Ethiopia, Warn Radio | Warn-Usa.com  Christian Perilous Times covers serious issues facing today's believers. This is our endtime report covering pertinate gospel news in the USA, Israel, and hot spots worldwide. Today we discuss Irans ongoing hatred of social meda as believers face prison for it. Also today we look at the bad use of hormone blockers for children who face gender identity. In addition a victory for the Good News clubs. Plus China persecution, Hindu extremists targetting Christians in India have not softened their hatred. Also as time allows these stories will be covered: Nigerian persecution, Ethiopian persecution, and more. Go to our link https://linktr.ee/warnradio for the latest articles and show episodes plus more resources Christian Perilous Times are three words describing the ongoing troubles faced by believers in Jesus Christ. Even in America there are many issues here. But here, we still have rule of law that makes it harder to get away with lawlessness in this arena. Yet overseas believers face prison over social media, persecution and death also are companions. Dangers abound in many places of the world. Christians are not safe.  To get the Books from the Watchman Dana G Smith go to his website http://www.DanaGlennSmith.com

Christian Perilous Times covers serious issues facing today's believers. This is our endtime report covering pertinate gospel news in the USA, Israel, and hot spots worldwide. Today we discuss Irans ongoing hatred of social meda as believers face prison for it. Also today we look at the bad use of hormone blockers for children who face gender identity. In addition a victory for the Good News clubs. Plus China persecution, Hindu extremists targetting Christians in India have not softened their hatred. Also as time allows these stories will be covered: Nigerian persecution, Ethiopian persecution, and more. Go to our link https://linktr.ee/warnradio for the latest articles and show episodes plus more resources Christian Perilous Times are three words describing the ongoing troubles faced by believers in Jesus Christ. Even in America there are many issues here. But here, we still have rule of law that makes it harder to get away with lawlessness in this arena. Yet overseas believers face prison over social media, persecution and death also are companions. Dangers abound in many places of the world. Christians are not safe. To get the Books from the Watchman Dana G Smith go to his website http://www.DanaGlennSmith.com #Christian_Perilous_Times, #Iran, #Socialmedia, #Childhood, #Hormone_blockers, #Lebanon, #Good-News-clubs, #China-persecution, #Hinduextremists, #India, #Nigerianpersecution, #Ethiopia, #WarnRadio, #Faith, #Christianliving #persecution_advocacy --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wibr-visions/support

ARISE2Read is a partnership of evangelical churches and businesses with local school districts to strengthen second-grade students and enable them to enter third grade reading on grade level. ARISE2Read accomplishes this by training volunteers to tutor children one hour a week in a simple sight word program called Team Read. We also promote Good News Clubs at each school and partner with a church in the community to assist them to meet the needs of neighborhood families. Learn more: http://arise2read.org

Nathan Sayre & Pete Davidson of Child Evangelism Fellowship in Cabell, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam, and Wayne counties in West Virginia. They also represent Boyd County, Kentucky, and Lawrence County, Ohio. CEF establishes Good News Clubs after school in local public schools.

Ron Pruitt with Children's Evangelism Fellowship stopped by the Radio Free studios to tell us about the Clay Shoot to benefit the Good News Clubs happening on April 14th at Moree's Sportsman Preserve (www.moreespreserve.com) - for more details about this event, and for info about CEF, please visit www.heartofthepalmetto.org - and for more Community Updates, as well as the best and most diverse Christian music playlist, please check out 92.5 FM in Florence or www.radiofree.cc worldwide!

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Quieren instalarse en ciertas escuelas públicas de EEUU como actividades extracurriculares opcional, fuera del horario de clases. No es un culto de satanismo. Se concentrarán en la búsqueda del conocimiento y el racionalismo. Están destinados a mostrar la incoherencia del sistema donde algunos grupos cristianos aprovechan fundos estatales y estructuras estatales para propagar su fe. Surgió en contrapartida del Good News Clubs, en el que se concentran en el adoctrinamiento.

Point of Inquiry, the flagship podcast for the Center for Inquiry, presents a special episode recorded before a live audience at the 2013 CFI Summit in Tacoma, Washington, with new co-host Lindsay Beyerstein. The fundamentalist, Christian right's influence and impact on our schools and the educating of our children is the subject of the new book The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children. Its author, Katherine Stewart, is our guest on this edition of Point of Inquiry, available in both video and audio editions. Stewart has publiched two novels about 21st Century parenting, worked in investigative journalism, written freelance for such publications as Newsweek International, Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg View, and Religion Dispatches. What are these "Good News Clubs" and what is their influence on schools across the nation?Evolution and sex education are just two of the avenues these religious organizations are using to inject their brand of far-right Christianity (and Judaism and Scientology, surprisingly) into our public schools.  Next week we'll bring you another episode of Point of Inquiry, as co-host, Josh Zeps interviews Bill Nye, The Science Guy.

In her shocking new book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (Public Affairs, 2012), Katherine Stewart describes how factions of the Christian Right, through groups such as the Good News Club, are seeking to indoctrinate children in public schools with their brand of fundamentalism. When a Good News Club came to a public school in her community, Stewart decided to investigate. The Club, under the umbrella of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, manages to find loopholes in state/church separation and find their way into public schools under the guise of being a non-denominational Bible studies program. Once there, they seek to build roots in order to reach as many children as possible. In her research, Stewart visited communities all over the United States where Good News Clubs had been present, and found that they had caused nothing but strife and divisiveness among kids, teachers and parents. She also followed the missionaries of the Good News Club on their training sessions and found that far from promoting a non-denominational view of the Bible, their real mission was to get kids “saved” (meaning converting kids to their brand of fundamentalism). She also discovered that the club promoted and pushed peer-to-peer proselytizing, usually targeting very small children. Most shocking of all, she found that beyond wanting to grow their church, the Club’s ultimate goal was the erosion of the public secular school system altogether. This eye-opening book urges us to wake up and pay attention to what is happening in America’s public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her shocking new book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (Public Affairs, 2012), Katherine Stewart describes how factions of the Christian Right, through groups such as the Good News Club, are seeking to indoctrinate children in public schools with their brand of fundamentalism. When a Good News Club came to a public school in her community, Stewart decided to investigate. The Club, under the umbrella of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, manages to find loopholes in state/church separation and find their way into public schools under the guise of being a non-denominational Bible studies program. Once there, they seek to build roots in order to reach as many children as possible. In her research, Stewart visited communities all over the United States where Good News Clubs had been present, and found that they had caused nothing but strife and divisiveness among kids, teachers and parents. She also followed the missionaries of the Good News Club on their training sessions and found that far from promoting a non-denominational view of the Bible, their real mission was to get kids “saved” (meaning converting kids to their brand of fundamentalism). She also discovered that the club promoted and pushed peer-to-peer proselytizing, usually targeting very small children. Most shocking of all, she found that beyond wanting to grow their church, the Club’s ultimate goal was the erosion of the public secular school system altogether. This eye-opening book urges us to wake up and pay attention to what is happening in America’s public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her shocking new book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (Public Affairs, 2012), Katherine Stewart describes how factions of the Christian Right, through groups such as the Good News Club, are seeking to indoctrinate children in public schools with their brand of fundamentalism. When a Good News Club came to a public school in her community, Stewart decided to investigate. The Club, under the umbrella of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, manages to find loopholes in state/church separation and find their way into public schools under the guise of being a non-denominational Bible studies program. Once there, they seek to build roots in order to reach as many children as possible. In her research, Stewart visited communities all over the United States where Good News Clubs had been present, and found that they had caused nothing but strife and divisiveness among kids, teachers and parents. She also followed the missionaries of the Good News Club on their training sessions and found that far from promoting a non-denominational view of the Bible, their real mission was to get kids “saved” (meaning converting kids to their brand of fundamentalism). She also discovered that the club promoted and pushed peer-to-peer proselytizing, usually targeting very small children. Most shocking of all, she found that beyond wanting to grow their church, the Club’s ultimate goal was the erosion of the public secular school system altogether. This eye-opening book urges us to wake up and pay attention to what is happening in America’s public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her shocking new book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (Public Affairs, 2012), Katherine Stewart describes how factions of the Christian Right, through groups such as the Good News Club, are seeking to indoctrinate children in public schools with their brand of fundamentalism. When a Good News Club came to a public school in her community, Stewart decided to investigate. The Club, under the umbrella of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, manages to find loopholes in state/church separation and find their way into public schools under the guise of being a non-denominational Bible studies program. Once there, they seek to build roots in order to reach as many children as possible. In her research, Stewart visited communities all over the United States where Good News Clubs had been present, and found that they had caused nothing but strife and divisiveness among kids, teachers and parents. She also followed the missionaries of the Good News Club on their training sessions and found that far from promoting a non-denominational view of the Bible, their real mission was to get kids “saved” (meaning converting kids to their brand of fundamentalism). She also discovered that the club promoted and pushed peer-to-peer proselytizing, usually targeting very small children. Most shocking of all, she found that beyond wanting to grow their church, the Club’s ultimate goal was the erosion of the public secular school system altogether. This eye-opening book urges us to wake up and pay attention to what is happening in America’s public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her shocking new book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (Public Affairs, 2012), Katherine Stewart describes how factions of the Christian Right, through groups such as the Good News Club, are seeking to indoctrinate children in public schools with their brand of fundamentalism. When a Good News Club came to a public school in her community, Stewart decided to investigate. The Club, under the umbrella of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, manages to find loopholes in state/church separation and find their way into public schools under the guise of being a non-denominational Bible studies program. Once there, they seek to build roots in order to reach as many children as possible. In her research, Stewart visited communities all over the United States where Good News Clubs had been present, and found that they had caused nothing but strife and divisiveness among kids, teachers and parents. She also followed the missionaries of the Good News Club on their training sessions and found that far from promoting a non-denominational view of the Bible, their real mission was to get kids “saved” (meaning converting kids to their brand of fundamentalism). She also discovered that the club promoted and pushed peer-to-peer proselytizing, usually targeting very small children. Most shocking of all, she found that beyond wanting to grow their church, the Club’s ultimate goal was the erosion of the public secular school system altogether. This eye-opening book urges us to wake up and pay attention to what is happening in America’s public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her shocking new book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (Public Affairs, 2012), Katherine Stewart describes how factions of the Christian Right, through groups such as the Good News Club, are seeking to indoctrinate children in public schools with their brand of fundamentalism. When a Good News Club came to a public school in her community, Stewart decided to investigate. The Club, under the umbrella of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, manages to find loopholes in state/church separation and find their way into public schools under the guise of being a non-denominational Bible studies program. Once there, they seek to build roots in order to reach as many children as possible. In her research, Stewart visited communities all over the United States where Good News Clubs had been present, and found that they had caused nothing but strife and divisiveness among kids, teachers and parents. She also followed the missionaries of the Good News Club on their training sessions and found that far from promoting a non-denominational view of the Bible, their real mission was to get kids “saved” (meaning converting kids to their brand of fundamentalism). She also discovered that the club promoted and pushed peer-to-peer proselytizing, usually targeting very small children. Most shocking of all, she found that beyond wanting to grow their church, the Club’s ultimate goal was the erosion of the public secular school system altogether. This eye-opening book urges us to wake up and pay attention to what is happening in America’s public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices