Here, at www.choicesradio.com">Teen Talk Radio, it's all about choices! Big or small, major or minor, there's a moment before every decision when you can alter the course of your life. Dive in with me on topics like peer pressure, dating, purity, drugs, alcohol, modesty, popularity, your future, and many other things that might come up along the way.

They tell me I'm a youth culture expert because I write and speak to pre-teens, teens, and parents about how to prepare for life's tough choices. I've written six books, been published over 200 times in devotional books, will see eleven more books release in the next year, and been interviewed on numerous radio stations as well as television--maybe that all does makes me an expert of some sort. I suppose being a mom of six, including toddler triplets, and working as a youth director, a Bible study leader for women and teens, a counselor at a crisis pregnancy center and serving as camp counselor for over a decade might qualify me in some ways, too.

But, it's the memory of my own teen years (yes, I can remember that far back) that has created a passion within me to reach out to teens and help them muddle through the confusion and pressure that life throws at them…at you! Hang out with me; let's figure it out together. I promise I won't preach at you--well, I'll try really hard not to!

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Nicole O'Dell, Choose NOW Ministries, ...battling peer pressure by tackling the tough issues

So excited!!! Not only has Girl Talk released, but Natalie and Emily are going to be my guests on Teen Talk Radio tonight!

We're going to be fielding some reader's questions on the spot! I have a small stack set aside already, but you can also call in with your questions. You'll want to call between 10-10:45pm EST at 877-864-4869.

Some samples of tonight's questions are:

"My BFF is after my boyfriend. . ."

"I don't like the church my parents drag me to. . ."

"I think I might be anorexic. . ."

I hope you'll tune in to at 10pm Est on Teen Talk Radio at www.choicesradio.com. The podcast will be available tomorrow. I'll update this page with a link at that time, Or you can subscribe to Teen Talk Radio on iTunes, and never miss a show!

Tonight on Teen Talk Radio, two special guests and a BIG giveaway!

Will Bakke Award-winning director of BEWARE OF CHRISTIANS and ONE NATION UNDER GOD, Will Bakke found his niche as filmmaker while in college at Baylor University, when he developed the short comedy sketch series Bearly There Productions. For that work, MTV named Bakke one of the Top 25 Filmmakers on Campus. His focus since is on feature films; he’ll direct the third film from Riot Studios with the working title BELIEVE ME.

Alex Carroll A 2010 graduate of Georgetown University, Alex Carroll co-produced both BEWARE OF CHRISTIANS and ONE NATION UNDER GOD. He also was a featured performer in BEWARE OF CHRISTIANS. In 2009, Alex founded Scot Productions, a sports media website for his high school alma mater in Dallas, and Campus Corner Connection, a successful advertising and social networking site. While at Georgetown, Carroll helped initiate a campus ministry known as The Gathering.

CHURCH AND THE NEXT GENERATION

BewareofChristians.com

In the film BEWARE OF CHRISTIANS, four recent college graduates, all Christians, trek across Europe, cameras in hand and questions in mind. From London to Barcelona to Rome, Paris and beyond, they engage with young locals and fellow travelers to find out how Christians are perceived and examine the relevance of their own faith in today’s world. This honest film from these young believers, part documentary, part “road picture,” dares to broach the hard questions about faith and the next generation. Meanwhile, a recent study from the Barna Group, a leading research firm in matters of faith, points to interesting trends among young people and the church drain.

As young Christians transition from high school to young adulthood:

• Only about three in 10 that identify as Christians and are active in church in high school are active in church by young adulthood.
• Two of 10 feel alienated from the “comfortable” church and faith of their parents; they feel unable to reconcile their faith with the culture and society around them.
• Four out of 10 continue to be interested in their faith but are less active in church.
• One of 10 leave their faith behind.

Why do young adult believers grow dissatisfied with the church? Leading reasons include:

• Cultural ignorance. While they want to interact with the culture, young Christians feel the church resists and fears that.
• Irrelevance. More than half say church is either uninteresting or irrelevant.
• Arrogance.  A third feel the church is too sure of its answers and a quarter think the church is against science.
• Society and morality. Young people struggle to reconcile the hyper-sexualized culture around them with the church’s moral teaching.
• Walls.  While a quarter of young believers express doubts about their faith, more than a third say they don’t feel free in church to ask questions about what is most significant to them.

SOURCE: You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving the Church and Rethinking Faith, by David Kinnaman, 2011, Baker Books.

Teen Talk Radio, Choose NOW Ministries, has THREE copies of the BEWARE OF CHRISTIANS DVD! Simply leave a comment here, or tweet this line to enter: Beware of Christians! @Nicole_ODell and #chooseNOWministries with an awesome #giveaway #teentalkradio.

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