How Can God Be Good Amid So Much Suffering? Answering Your Teenager’s Questions About Faith
If we believe God is good, we can demonstrate our faith by approaching him alongside our children with honest, difficult questions.
Asking a child-loss sufferer about their grief five or ten years later communicates, “I know that you still lament your child’s death and I am with you.”
If we believe God is good, we can demonstrate our faith by approaching him alongside our children with honest, difficult questions.
When there’s spit-up on your favorite shirt, volunteers cancel, the budget is cut, and the schemes of the Enemy come against you, take heart: the battle is won.
We do not know who we are apart from the God who made us, and we do not know who we are becoming apart from the God who is renewing us.
Behind our constant overscheduling is often a sense of pride. The 24-hour day limits us, but God is beyond time.
Worship isn’t a solo hike—it’s a shared pilgrimage, shaped by the voices and presence of others who are walking with God.
With the right perspective, science can actually grow and strengthen our understanding of who God is and lead us to worship him even more.
We turn to you, Lord, in the face of unspeakable tragedy. You are the Living God who hears the cries of the righteous, so we ask you, God: hold our sorrow and receive our grief.
Welcome to Rooted’s Top Ten, a curated reading list for youth ministers. Each month we find ten articles, and sometimes videos or podcasts, from various sources that we believe will encourage you in your ministry to teenagers and their families. Some give explicit instruction on gospel-centered ministry, while others contain a message of common grace that is helpful to youth workers.