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Don’t make your house a “NO!” Zone. I’ve done literally thousands of radio interviews around the country on the issue of protecting our homes and families from an ever-invading crude culture. Invariably, at least one well-meaning caller will say something like, “I agree that the culture is evil—so I’ve ripped out the TVs, don’t allow the Internet in my house, and don’t let my kids have cell phones.” Sadly, these parents have mistaken technology and hardware as the problem. The problem isn’t the technology—it’s the way we use it, and the way we allow others to misuse it in our homes. Instead of banning everything, we should harness the good, and filter out the bad.

Besides you can't be engaged in a culture war if you do nothing but retreat from it. Bravely retreating is still just retreating.

I once stayed with a family in Japan for 3-4 days. After a couple of days, the young children asked their father if they could ask me a question. With his OK, they said: “What is the difference between a house and a home?” That was the question.

I explained that we have a saying, “Home is where the heart is.” Thus, a house is the building, and a home is where we live and build relationships.