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Paul is one of the Staff Editors at Matthias Media. He is married to Cathy and has three fantastic kids. He loves student ministry, reading, writing music and playing the saxophone, and is looking forward to meeting Jesus face to face.
Sola Panellists
- Tony Payne (convenor)
- Jennie Baddeley
- Mark Baddeley
- Andrew Barry
- Peter Bolt
- Gordon Cheng
- a local church and a certain Christian publishing house. (Sometimes the latter vocations can happen without the first.) Many people call him a nerd, which he prefers to geek. He\'s keen on biblical studies, languages, great technology, science fiction, coffee, photography, frisbee, family, jazz, and hats. You could call his tastes eclectic. ");'>Sam Freney
- Sandy Grant
- Scott Newling
- Gavin Perkins
- Ben Pfahlert
- Peter Sholl
- Claire Smith
- Nicole Starling
- Jean Williams
- Lionel Windsor
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we like (Why these?)
- Matthias Media
- The Briefing
- 9Marks
- Albert Mohler
- Anglican Church League
- challies
- David Ould
- ENTRUST
- EQUIP book club
- Girl Talk
- Gordon Cheng's Blog
- The Gospel Coalition
- Jean Williams's blog
- Justin Taylor
- Lionel Windsor
- Monergism
- Moore College
- MTS
- Nicole Starling's blog
- Phillip Jensen
- Pyromaniacs
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- Reformers' Bookshop
- The Simeon Trust
- The Ugley Vicar
Teenagers often define themselves by their material possessions and their consumer behaviour.
If you own an iPod and can quote the latest pop song while cruising around in your keds and wearing your pants just a little bit lower than where they should be (as long as your underpants are of the Klein variety), then you claim status beyond those who… well… don’t.
(Or in other words: If you own twin Landcruisers and can quote the latest reality television victim while cruising around in your Polo V-neck and your pants just a little bit lower than where they should be, then you claim status beyond those who… well… don’t.)
Material possessions = status and value
This is another lousy argument that gets better (or should I say worse) with age.
Oh dear, Paul, you haven’t gone for the old “Back in my day…” approach have you?
Two generations ago? What, the swinging sixties? Where youth simply ‘grew out of it’?
How old exactly were you two generations ago?
I think the real lousy argument that gets better with age is one with “Back in my day…” as the premise.
Here’s one that has got better with age, that is as I’ve moved from being an adolescent to a parent!
That’s Why!
In addition to enjoying his Storybook Bible (http://sallylloyd-jones.com/JSBB.html), my 7 year old son loves “mouth stories”.
Basically my life’s observations and lessons. Tonight’s story was about not worrying - a lesson I told him I could use.
I guess the lesson is to start ‘em early and explain the reasons for your decisions - hopefully this will set a good precendent.
Its ~ 13 years before my daughter becomes a teenager: any wise words as to what I can be doing now to avoid the situation described above?
I think your friend is doing well—the daughter is arguing with him and they both know where they stand.
Other bad arguments: This one is never stated, but you have to be like everyone else. I wonder is this one quite so prevalent as it was in the 1980s?
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