Parent University

List of 8 items.

• "What Would You Say?" Videos

  An aspect of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, “What Would You Say?” is a vast library of brief, highly relatable videos that address the issues driving the prevailing cultural chaos in the world today.  Whether watched as parents or as an entire family, these videos equip you with answers through appealing apologetics.

• Axis Christian Parenting Blog

  Axis is a ministry which works to practically and pragmatically connect parents, teens, and Jesus in a very disconnecting world.  In addition to their blog, Axis offers a routinely updated calendar of upcoming cultural events that will impact your student.  The Axis parenting calendar allows you to stay ahead of the curve and prepared for the imminent cultural conversations that need to be had in your home.  Also, subscribe to the weekly Culture Translator newsletter that puts you in-the-know on issues within student culture every week.

• Christian Family Care's Family Care Learning Library

  A Phoenix-based ministry founded in 1982, Christian Family Care began serving children and families through foster care, adoption, and pregnancy counseling programs. Today, CFC has grown to become much more than an adoption and foster care agency. Their influence and services have expanded to fulfill their vision of seeing every child loved and nurtured in a Christ-centered family.  These services include access to the Family Care Learning Library–an unbelievably diverse collection of online courses that will have an immediate impact within Northwest Christian homes and families.

• Colson Educators Videos

  Enjoy five additional videos filmed for the Parent University course with Colson Educators:
  
  1. Colson Fellows Susan Leonard and Nathan Johnson help us to understand that the three paths that truth has taken throughout human history--science, religion, and philosophy--lead to good and healthy places when we "rightly divide the word of truth". And, they emphasize that along those roads, we are best served when we allow both grace and truth to guide us. 
  
  2. Given that we are living in a time when the culturally prevailing secular worldviews are so frequently in conflict with Biblical worldview, it is not unexpected that, even at young ages, our children are asking questions that we, as parents and educators, might find alarming. But, should we be alarmed? How do we handle these questions? 
  
  3. Recent research from George Barna and the ACU Cultural Research Center indicates that, even within the church, the prevailing worldview is syncretism. Syncretism is the idea that we can adopt a worldview that is effectively an amalgamation of what we each, individually and separately, find most appealing in different religions and philosophies. This gives rise to the thinking that we each have our "own truth". But, when this happens, what are the inherent dangers? 
  
  4. The battle of ideas is not new. Rather, it has persisted throughout history. In the early church, the tool of "catechism" was used to safeguard the church from heretical and dangerous ideas. How can we use catechism, or Christian education, to similarly safeguard our children and homes? 
  
  5. How does worldview form? How can I know if my worldview is Biblical? These are critical questions that we must tackle if we desire to see our homes safeguarded from the harms of the world. In this video, we learn about two wonderful, free resources that we highly recommend for Northwest Christian families, each from Summit Ministries (summit.org): (1) the individual worldview checkup (https://www.summit.org/individual-worldview-checkup/) and (2) the survey of worldviews chart (https://www.summit.org/resources/worldview-chart/).

• Kingdom Culture Conversations - A Northwest Christian School Podcast

  Kingdom Culture Conversations grew out of the sorts of cultural questions that grew out of Northwest Christian School’s own classrooms.  As students asked questions, we listened closely and brought in the experts to answer those questions and equip our students, and their families with transformational truth.

• RightNow Media

  RightNow is the proverbial Netflix of Biblical resources that you need in your home: a huge library of Bible studies and family-friendly films.  RightNow also includes a Northwest Christian School page that links to our chapels, various NCS features, and our very own NXNW movies!  Best of all, as a member of the Crusader community, your subscription is free!

• The Breakpoint Podcasts

  Another facet of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview is a daily short-form podcast hosted by Colson Center president John Stonestreet.  With the fundamental understanding that “ideas have consequences”, BreakPoint is a daily walk through the danger ideas within culture that surface hazards in our homes.

• The World and Everything In It Podcast

  Does the daily news leave you feeling hopeless and confused?  Try “The World and Everything In It” – a daily 30-minute podcast from the World News Group that presents the headlines through the lens of a Christian worldview.  With production that rivals any secular news media outlet, imagine listening to the news and feeling encouraged!