October-November 2020 Rooted Parent Top Ten

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.

Rooted 2020 Parenting Book Awards

In spite of 2020’s overall lack of fun, we can celebrate the fact that lots of us had more time to read … and there was a bumper crop of good books! We’d love to hear what some of your favorite books for parents were.

Helping Teenagers Cope with Stress and Anxiety

During this complicated, difficult time, it’s important to give our teenagers tools to manage anxiety and stress by focusing on what we know to be true—that Jesus has rescued us from our sins by living, dying, and rising again.

Praying for the President

“First of all then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.”

The God Who Loves His Enemies

In this fraught and anxious season, when we are wearied by coronavirus, racial injustice, political division, and the rage and sadness of it all, we bear witness to the love of God when we obey the most difficult command of all.

Leaning On the God Who Is Always With Us

In the absence of my father, on whom I had always depended for my spiritual, physical, and even emotional needs, I learned what it meant to find refuge in my Savior who loves me better than my earthly father ever could. 

God: Frustratingly, Forgettably, and Unendingly Faithful

We don’t normally experience God as a pillar of fire, a cloud overshadowing a mountain, a voice from the heavens like thunder, or anything so spectacular as that. Most of the time, the faithfulness of God is more like oatmeal – easily forgettable, but utterly essential for life.