<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=838528320191540&amp;ev=PageView&amp;noscript=1">
Donate

Latest Broadcast

Teach Your Children Well: The Lessons from the Greatest Generation - Part 1

Guest: Tom Rose

Donate

January 10, 2023

Get Them to Church On Time

The signs are everywhere. America's youth are in trouble. According to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, Americans who were born after 1995 "have extraordinarily higher rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide and fragility." By 2020, more than 25% of teenage girls had a major problem with depression. Haidt points to social media and a victimhood culture as the culprits.

They obviously play a major role in our youth crisis. Our children are also suffering from a breakdown of the family. Forty percent of U.S. children are born out of wedlock. They come to age in a culture that itself has gone off the rails. They are educated in public schools that are officially hostile to faith, and taught that they live in a country that is systematically racist and evil. They are also taught they exist because of mindless biological processes that somehow transformed primal slime into sentient human beings. The miracle is that depression levels among America's youth isn't 100%!

Many of these problems will take years, if ever, to solve. While we are waiting for American renewal, there is something important we can do right now: take our children to church! That is the theme of an essay in the Federalist by Mary Rose Kulczak.

The author cites a study done in 2018 at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health that concluded children and teens who regularly attend church are more likely to be happier and satisfied with their lives and less likely to use drugs and engage in other socially destructive behavior.

But we don't need a Harvard study to convince us that a child who knows and accepts Jesus, and who comes to understand that he or she was created and "knitted" in the womb by a loving God, is a child more likely to thrive in this life and be saved for eternal life with Him.

Here's a great 2023 resolution. Take your children and grandchildren to church. Ask your child to bring a friend along. Volunteer in children's ministries. Save America's children in this life and for life eternal, and by doing so, save America, too.

Related Articles

  See More Articles

May 25, 2023

U.S. Corporations Need A Civics Lesson

American corporations are failing when it comes to protecting free speech and religious liberty. Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) just released its second annual Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index. The index examines 75 publicly traded corporations and rates them based on the strength of their safeguards for religious freedom and freedom of speech. Companies with no safeguards receive a 0, and those with robust safeguards are awarded 100.

May 25, 2023

Gorsuch’s Warning

JDFI is deeply concerned that America's most cherished liberties, outlined in our Bill of Rights, are more at risk today than at any time in our history. These rights, among them the freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the freedom of assembly, are under daily attack by powerful political, cultural and academic elites.

May 25, 2023

Abortion and Trans Radicals Join Hands

Two great dangers to America's children — abortion and so-called "transgenderism" — are increasingly being legislatively joined together in a tactic that threatens parental rights across America.