Everything in me wants to email the teacher in charge of National Honor Society (NHS) at my son’s high school. Each student in NHS is required to perform twenty hours of school-specified volunteer work to stay eligible as…
Our children’s lives as Christ followers are not defined by their performances. His perfect sacrifice on the cross is our final assessment.
I think back to watching my three-year-old daughter in her first of many ballet recitals. We sat for a very long time to watch her float and twirl around the stage for about three minutes. I hardly remember…
I remember hearing a story of a six-year old boy who said he wanted to pray at the dinner table like dad. The father told him to go ahead, and the son began with: “God, thank you for…
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 (plus an extra this month!) articles we believe will encourage and equip you…
You’ve had your pastel suits laid out for days; the kids have been wondering about the contents of their Easter baskets for the last two weeks. You’ve known what was coming. Though you walked solemnly and reverently through…
In Christianity’s seemingly upside-down economics, we call the death of our hero, our teacher, our miracle worker, and our God, ‘good.’ For outside observers, Good Friday is often just one more bit of evidence that Christianity doesn’t make…
“One of you will betray me” “Peter, you will deny me three times before the cock crows” “This is my body, which is broken for you” “This is my blood, which is poured out for you” “I am…
“And it was night.” These four words from John 13:30 comprise one of the most ominous sentences in all of Scripture. It is the night before Jesus was to die, after the main course of the Passover meal….
