Blog
Writing from Al Erickson
Short pieces on preparing children, passing on the faith, and what a congregation owes the families inside it.
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Prepare Your Kids, No Heartaches, Please!
Prepare Your Kids, No Heartaches, Please! © 2022 Adults Saving Kids I was speaking at a church in Turner, Montana. One of the things I said at the…
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Fifteen Things to Know and Do to Not Get Trafficked or Aid Traffickers
Start with a short look into how we are vulnerable See (Ways Youth Can Be Vulnerable to Human Traffickers) on this website. Don’t lack preparedness. […]
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The Most High Calling of Parents and Grandparents and Other Concerned Adults
Have we forgotten how important we are? Have we failed to grasp the vital ministry we have been given and allowed it to slip away unnoticed? Are we…
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Discernment, The Art of
When people tell you that you are a discerning person, what do they observe that has them say that? To be discerning means a person has the awareness…
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Are Our Children Prepared for Treacherous People?
Are Our Children Prepared for Treacherous People? When we hear a 15-year-old girl has gone with her parents to a Dallas Maverick’s basketball game and is abducted, we…
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Identity in Christ, Key to Authentic Living
Identity in Christ, Key to Authentic Living Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Poem Who Am I?Marcus Borg says American culture bombards us and undermines our lives with these three goals: Attractiveness,…
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Grandparents – Ways to prepare Grandchildren
Grandparents – Ways to prepare Grandchildren Bond and relate to them Engage with them Be a model to them like Paul Philippians 4:9 Teach Bible, Good news, what…
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Equipping Parents and Grandparents for their Family Ministries
Equipping Parents and Grandparents for their Family Ministries Can We Legitimately Say that Family Leaders Have Ministries? The big question here is whether or not God has given…
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HELP WANTED: WOMEN AND GIRLS DO YOU WANT THIS JOB?
(Prostitution has been euphemized as an occupational alternative for women, as an answer to low paying, low skilled, boring dead-end jobs, as a solution to the high unemployment…
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Five Distinctions to Becoming Street Smart
Truth Exposes And Transforms Lies One’s Identity in Christ Lie: I will live today, die and be eaten by worms, and have no existence therefore I am worthless.Truth:…
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Ways Youth can be Vulnerable
• Want to look good, be noticed, get attention.• Want to be heard, to have someone take the time to listen to them.• Want to be affirmed, to…
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Ways Youth are Recruited into the Sex Industry
• Approached and asked for something – directions, gum etc.• Bumped into, apology given, remark made like a compliment, response noted, is this person open to being influenced…
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