I had the fortune to grow up in the golden age of quasi-grungy worship music. In the name of reaching my generation, people sang praise songs whose styles sounded more like a Creed deep track than something suitable…
I had done it again. In a couple of spots in my calendar I saw where I needed to have two children in two different places at the same time. (Double-booking seems to be my self-torture method of…
When my youngest was six, we redecorated her room. The fresh look called for much purging, so I decided to use the opportunity to teach a little bit about generosity. I told my daughter to fill a bag…
Promises are easy to make but hard to keep. I am sure that most of us know this all too well, especially from our time as teenagers. We’ve made pinky promises, secret handshakes with friends, gotten guarantees and…
I remember the sense of paralysis I felt on my second week of youth ministry when a child’s father died. I had no idea what do. What was the first step I should take? Now, I have worked…
Welcome to this month’s Rooted Parent Top 10- a list of parenting articles from across the web for the Rooted community. This list represents ten articles we believe will encourage and equip you as you parent your kids….
The great preacher Charles Spurgeon once called ministers of the gospel of grace to stake their lives on the truth and righteousness of Christ: “The want of the period is brethren who know the gospel for themselves,…
About five minutes after our oldest child left for college, our middle child moved himself into his brother’s downstairs bedroom. This was a settled plan, as our middle son’s prior arrangements “forced” him to share a bathroom with…
As student pastors, it’s important to model compassionate but critical civic engagement. YouTube-pundits and partisan media are catechizing our teenagers toward vitriolic, ungenerous, no-benefit-of-the-doubt monologues. Depending on which channel you watch, secular conservatism shouts catcalls of “soy boy,”…
