What We Do Know About Heaven
Ever since my husband Jeff died nearly eight years ago, my sons and I have tried to picture what his life with Jesus looks like. We joke that dad must be playing golf, shooting hoops and eating the…
Ever since my husband Jeff died nearly eight years ago, my sons and I have tried to picture what his life with Jesus looks like. We joke that dad must be playing golf, shooting hoops and eating the…
In this episode of the Rooted podcast (recorded at our 2017 conference in Dallas), we interview author and pastor Scott Sauls about his remarkable book, Befriend, and how many of its themes speak to the current generation of…
It sounded like our SUV had been hit, sequentially, by two cannons. After a few choice mental exasperations, I voiced nervously, “No worries guys, everything’s okay. We’ve just blown out the tires on the right side of the…
Regardless of how “successful” your parenting strategy might appear, the fact remains that we are all utterly incapable of keeping our kids on the right path.
I am an overachiever, yet not in a perfectionist way, but more in a desire to prove myself. As a child, I did my chores, not simply to complete them, but to please my parents. I did my…
This week we are slow on blog content because the Rooted Conference in Nashville is just two days away! In the meantime, we thought we’d share an excerpt written by Cameron Cole in Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry (GCYM is…
“Mom. I want ankle weights. I need ankle weights. My friend has ankle weights, and I need them to be faster and jump higher,” my son explained to me at approximately 6:21 am while I packed lunches and…
One of Rooted’s five pillars of lasting, effective, gospel-centered youth ministry is the intergenerational integration of teenagers within the larger body of the church. Up next on our bookshelf is Chap Clark’s upcoming book, Adoptive Church (out October…
In this episode of the Rooted podcast, we hear from Clark Fobes about the unique challenges of working as a youth minister in the Asian American church.