Rooted Webinars: Practical and Theological Responses to COVID-19
These webinars will help you encourage your students in the hope of the gospel and give you practical support for doing ministry in these strange times.
These webinars will help you encourage your students in the hope of the gospel and give you practical support for doing ministry in these strange times.
The Lord was able to take a hard, very 2020 experience, and use it for good as we took what was once painful and used it to minister to others who would come to the same journey later.
God knew every life experience I would have, all my heart’s desires, and what would be best for me. He allowed me to feel the yearning to be understood and used it to draw me to Him.
Have you ever experienced sorrow or depression that did not seem to go away? Has sorrow or depression led you to anxiety about your faith? Have you wondered with David as this Psalm expresses, how long?
It’s not enough to just recruit leaders to fill a role; they need to be reminded over and over again what the goal of our ministry labor is. It’s to make disciples of students.
When we accept that difficulty is inevitable because of our broken world, we stop treating God as the one who takes away our comfort and start bowing in submission to a God who reveals His loving hand through our suffering.
When we turn away, it is easy to grow fearful and lose sight of the beautiful truth that even “if we are faithless, he remains faithful.”
My false identity of the “good girl” was crushed even in my best efforts, and what was I met with? God’s graciousness and a reminder of my Gospel identity.
In a world that is quick to cancel, the Christian response to the sins of our brothers and sisters is not quiet submission or public shame, but Gospel-centered critique spoken in love.
