Top 5 Smartphone Alternatives for Kids | Safer First Phones for Tweens & Teens (Video)

If you're a parent wondering about the best first phone for kids, this guide is for you!

Before you hand your child a smartphone, watch this first.

These are the Top 5 safer alternatives to smartphones that keep your kids connected—without the dangers of social media, addictive apps, or online predators.

If you’re a parent wondering about the best first phone for kids, this guide is for you.

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These kid-safe devices include options like Gabb phones, smart watches, and other screen-light solutions to protect your child’s mental and spiritual health.

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What Are the 4 Stages of Faith Development for Students?

How Worldviews Develop in the Context of Biblical Discipleship

How do we help kids build a lasting faith? What does spiritual growth look like?

To better understand that process, we need to look at the stages of faith development that Christian students go through. After working with, training, and observing students for a long time, I think there are four general stages.

Knowing where the student you are trying to disciple is at spiritually or where your child is as you parent them, will help you focus on the right things in the right order.

In a post-Christian culture with confusion, distraction, and outright attack at every turn, it is more important than ever to aim at the right things. And awareness is the first step.

The Four Stages of Faith Development

Beginning.

The first stage is beginning. The key question here is do you have a personal relationship with Jesus?

This describes when a student receives Jesus by putting his or her faith in Jesus. This is the beginning of the journey. This can be at an early age like 5 or 6 or as a teenager like for me at 17, but the point is there is their entry into a relationship with God through Jesus (John 1:12; John 14:6). New life begins.

 

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Os Guinness – “A Free People’s Suicide” (VIDEO)

If only our political discourse looked and sounded more like this. I think we would all be better off. This 40 min lecture is an insightful analysis of where we are as a country and how to preserve liberty and order it as a society. Thanks to Eric Metaxas for making this available through Socrates in the City.


Dr. Os Guinness: “A Free People’s Suicide” from Socrates in the City on Vimeo.

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