CPYU, Download, and Cultural Soup

 I love what the people at CPYU are doing. It is especially helpful for youth pastors like myself. If parents would take advantage of it, it would be for them also. After all, CPYU does stand for Center for Parent/Youth Understanding.

Recently I took our teenagers through their neat little study called "Download."It is a 3(D) approach on using your mind to guard your heart. The three D's stand for Discover, Discern, and Decide. It was a great study in which Walt lays out a clear cut plan on discerning what media we should be taking in and also avoiding as followers of Jesus. The coolest thing about it is that it's not just for music. His principles (or "D's") apply to all media including TV shows, advertisements, movies, internet intake, etc. Learn more about this little three week study here.

In one of the latest blog posts from CPYU's founder, Walt Mueller, he identifies 8 ingredients of today's "cultural soup" that our teenagers and children are swimming in. The more I think about what he has laid out, the more I realize how true it really is. The article is full of amazing insights from this "student of culture." It is really a zoomed out view. He hits the broad topics, some of which you may have never thought of as influencing who your children are turning out to be. He has really informative things to say about each one. I hope he develops each one more fully at a later date. But for now you and I can learn a lot from what Mueller has identified. You will definitely learn something from this. Check it out here.