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Helping Your High School Senior Grow Spiritually (part 2)

Three Crucial Conversations:

Lastly, these three conversations with your child will help them be even more prepared spiritually to step into the freedoms and unknowns of college life.

 

  1. Developing a Personal Mission Statement – Let them know that a personal mission statement is a statement of values, priorities, and mission. Having this created and kept in a journal, on their mirror, or in their phone will help them as they face new decisions, relationships, and situations at school.
  2. Creating A Connection Plan – Connecting with a Christian community is crucial in the first few days/weeks of college. This usually does
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Helping Your High School Senior Grow Spiritually (part one)

One of the biggest factors that I have seen in students who struggle with the transition from high school to college is that they are what the apostle Paul called “infants” in Christ (1 Corinthians 3:1). Even if they grew up in church, many students are still feeding on milk, rather than solid food. 1 Corinthians 13:11 says, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” The months leading up to leaving for college are

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New Podcast Episode: Freedom Permit – Spiritual Development

Today on The Launch Mission Podcast, we will introduce the first of four parts of the Freedom Permit: Spiritual Development. This one is the first and most important. After listening, check out daily blog posts this week for more insight on this topic.


Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-launch-mission-podcast/id1677806999


Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/4idjJJooUzWyJ1LONU35Jw


Google Podcasts – https://podcastsmanager.google.com/show?show=show%3A4hNZQ8gazTpZA6v9oMNypA


Amazon Music – https://podcasters.amazon.com/podcasts/4be2f418-75bd-43e0-9cee-5d36db7630d3

Tommy McGregor

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Fighting Senioritis Before It Fully Starts

Here are a few questions to challenge you to help your senior think positive and focused this year.

  1. How have they seemed off and distracted this year so far?

  2. What activities does he/she need to stay active and involved in this year?

  3. What are some mini-goals that they could set to find some purpose in their now?

  4. What relationships are important for your teen to keep and develop this year?

Tommy McGregor

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Why Is The Life Transition After High School So Difficult For Christian Teenagers? (PART TWO)

Depending on where you look, there is a statistical range for how many Christian students struggle in their faith while attempting to cross this great gap. I can honestly tell you that it is somewhere between 60-75%. Do me a favor and try to erase the fact that you have heard this before. Attempt to re-read that sentence with a renewed perspective: Out of every one hundred teenagers who have professed Christ as Savor and grown up in a church, between sixty and seventy-five will drift away from growing and maturing in Christ after they graduate and leave home.

 

Obviously,

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Why Is The Life Transition After High School So Difficult For Christian Teenagers? (PART ONE)

When I was in high school, I was like the poster child for a teenage Christian youth group kid. I grew up in a healthy Christian family, and was active in a church that taught about following Jesus. I was the one who invited friends to weekly outreach events and encouraged my peers in their faith. I led Bible studies for those younger than me and was even voted the president of my youth group, which still to this day I am not sure what that meant. I was the captain on the church league basketball team and received a

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Dealing With Senioritis

SENIORITIS, it’s a real thing. Some of you have seen this condition rear its evil head all throughout high school, but this year, it will live large. In spite of that, here are a few thoughts on how to help your child navigate through this last year of high school.

 

1. Don’t let them quit anything, this year, that they have been doing in previous years. Sometimes, after the senior year begins, students are so tired of high school that they start dropping off teams, out of groups, and participating less at church and other activities. Don’t let that happen!

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New Podcast Episode: Dr. Chap Clark

Today on The Launch Mission Podcast, we have Dr. Chap Clark talking about the struggles of adolescents during this life transition and the importance of Christian community throughout the process.

 

Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-launch-mission-podcast/id1677806999

 

Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/4idjJJooUzWyJ1LONU35Jw

 

Google Podcasts – https://podcastsmanager.google.com/show?show=show%3A4hNZQ8gazTpZA6v9oMNypA

 

Amazon Music – https://podcasters.amazon.com/podcasts/4be2f418-75bd-43e0-9cee-5d36db7630d3

Tommy McGregor

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The Current State of Your High School Senior

As a student finally approaches his senior year in high school, they have spent almost all of their recollected life in school and at home, under the supervision of loving parents and teachers; but now that is about to change. With some nervousness and much excitement, they are preparing for a great leap into adulthood where they will have more freedom than ever before. For both parent and student, this is a stressful time of wrapping up one chapter of life and preparing for another.

 

At this point in the process, most seniors have at least narrowed it down as

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