Cultural Discernment Lessons
Cultural Discernment Lessons help children and teens learn how to examine movies, stories, music, and cultural messages through a biblical worldview. Rather than reacting to culture or avoiding it altogether, these lessons train families to slow ideas down, compare them with Scripture, and respond with wisdom and clarity.
Inside Out
Inside Out offers a compelling picture of the inner emotional life, but it also quietly teaches children where meaning, authority, and guidance come from.
Roblox
This series challenges students to examine the claim that truth is relative by exploring how God has embedded absolute truth into creation itself.
Moana
This lesson helps families explore how the film presents calling, identity, and guidance; particularly the idea that truth and direction are found by listening inward or communing with nature and ancestral voices.
DragonBall Z
This lesson guides families in examining how the series portrays human potential, transcendence, good and evil, and self-mastery.
Core Skills Children Learn
Observation
Learning to slow down and notice what a story, message, or piece of media is actually saying..rather than reacting emotionally or absorbing it uncritically.
Discernment
Identifying underlying beliefs about truth, identity, and meaning, and recognizing where those beliefs align (or conflict) with Scripture.
Biblical Comparison
Practicing how to place cultural ideas alongside God’s Word, allowing Scripture (not feelings or popularity), to serve as the standard for truth.
Reasoned Response
Learning how to respond thoughtfully and biblically to ideas they encounter, with humility, and confidence, rather than fear or confusion.
Faith Integration
Understanding that faith is not compartmentalized..Scripture speaks to stories, media, relationships, and everyday decisions across all of life.
These skills are developed over time through guided practice, conversation,
and intentional discipleship..not memorization or avoidance.
