All kids today experience disconnectedness to some degree. It’s our job as parents to help them connect with God.

Our children live in a generation in which all kids experience some level of disconnectedness. Families have split apart, leaving many of them lonely and isolated from caring adults. The church has lost much of its influence on them due to shallowness and irrelevance. And the culture is working overtime to separate them from the values of their parents’ generation through filthy music lyrics, violent video games, sex- and profanity-laden movies and television programs, Internet pornography, consumerism, and much more.

What can we as parents do? By properly wielding the influence we have in our kids’ lives because of our relationships with them, we can become the bridge that connects God to them and them to God. Being a bridge is our major role as parents, and it becomes more important as our kids grow older. We are called to be a relational connector between God and them.

Born with no arms and no legs, Nick Vujicic is teaching the church how to overcome challenges by finding true strength in Christ.

He surfs. He swims. He’s going to be in the Los Angeles Marathon in March. He has a contagiously optimistic outlook on life. And yet he has no arms or legs.

Born without limbs, 26-year-old Nick Vujicic (pronounced voy-a-chich) is becoming known worldwide as an evangelist and motivational speaker, drawing up to 100,000 people at stadiums and other venues around the globe. The founder of California-based Life Without Limbs, he is now on a world tour and will release his first book, No Limbs, No Limits, later this year.

Vujicic, a native of Australia who recently relocated to California, says he feels called by God to share how he overcame nearly insurmountable circumstances to bring hope and inspiration to people. “I know what I’m here to do, and that’s to tell people about the hope in Christ that strengthens me,” Vujicic says.

Most of us are unaware of how often we displease God with our words. Here’s an idea: Try fasting from gossip, complaining and negative words until you overcome.

"Sorry I’m late for the meeting. Traffic!” Half-truths such as this one were becoming easier and easier for me to tell.

Of course, there had been some traffic on the freeway, but nothing that would have delayed my arrival if I had left on time. The real truth was that I had overslept because I had stayed up to watch the late-night edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Notice I didn’t actually say that traffic was extremely heavy or that it was the traffic that had delayed me. I just implied it so that my team members would conclude my tardiness was outside my control.

For some time prior to this incident my husband had been trying to convince me that any intent to deceive is a lie. My conscience had also been faithful to remind me of Proverbs 12:22: “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are His delight” (NKJV).