Open-handed faith acknowledges that our responsibility as a parent is not to follow some perfectly formulated equation that ensures a successful outcome, but it recognizes the need to trust fully and completely in God’s ultimate plan knowing that He is our child’s Creator.
When we ultimately forget to send that email, forget about a meeting, or overlook an important text, there is abundant grace in the gospel…We are saved by grace through the victorious work of Jesus. And He invites us to participate in a finished work.
Though we are made in God’s image, unlike Him, we are creatures locked in time. There are limits to our understanding. We are unable to know what we do not know. Full stop. And yet…
This truth is certain: We will lose the opportunity to speak about the hope of Christ that is in us if we are so preoccupied with promoting our own ideas about racial injustice that we never pause and listen.
Welcome to this month’s Rooted Parent Top 10- a list of parenting articles from across the web for the Rooted community.
One of the many practical features of Rooted Reservoir, our always-growing Illustrations Bank contains over 200 sermon illustrations to help you open up Biblical themes in your talks to teenagers.
One of Rooted’s five pillars of youth ministry is Intergenerational Integration, the belief that one of the goals of youth ministry must be to help students find their place in the local church.
Do we trust the world’s answers more than we believe in the ability of God to redeem and work through our confusion?
Spending time at students’ events helps us remember that we are not simply pastors in offices, but shepherds called to nurture the flock entrusted to our care.
