As parents and youth workers, we sometimes find ourselves at a loss for words to speak or to pray with our teenagers. Rooted Recommends Every Moment Holy by Douglas McKelvey, a beautiful volume of words for those wordless moments.
The first time I read the Hebrew Scriptures all the way through and encountered the prophets, I was unable to ignore a vision of sin as a corporate undertaking and repentance as highly communal and action-oriented.
I want to serve students in a way that won’t only get them to the end of high school with a growing faith; I want to serve them in a way that empowers them to get to “the Day,” the “telos” (the end), with their faith.
Whether our kids are anxious, angry, hurt, or filled with joy, the Psalms reinforce the presence of Jesus and reminds us that He is bottling up our tears and rejoicing in our gladness.
Students need us to lead and teach from the overflow of our intimacy with Christ.
I believe the Lord has grown our children’s understanding of the Gospel, in part through my husband’s and my failings, repentance, apologies, and tearful confessions that we are wretched sinners apart from Christ.
Christian biographies and autobiographies are testimonies to the faithfulness of God and the power of obedience. This list will give your students some new perspectives and new heroes — and you might enjoy reading these yourself!
Colossians is not only helpful in waking our students up as to how they might have veered off the path of the gospel, it also instructs them in how to faithfully continue down the road of their walk with Christ.
We asked some of our Rooted writers to share their favorite books and resources for teaching the New Testament.
