When the Bible talks about exasperating our kids (Ephesians 6:4), the reality is that living vicariously through them, or trying to form them into the people we think they should be, directly contradicts what the Bible says about how we should view our children.
I stood in front of a group of students last week during an outdoor Bible study gathering. Something came out of my mouth that was not in the script: “2020 has been the worst year for our nation…
“Gospel-centered youth ministry is great in theory, but is it effective at building lifelong disciples?” To be honest, this is a question I’ve asked with increasing frequency, especially as our typical way of doing ministry has been sidelined….
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….
Even something as innocent as a Father’s Day church service can exacerbate what is already a loss felt every day.
As a parent, who hasn’t said to their child, “don’t touch that! It’s hot!”? Maybe it was your toddler reaching for the hot eye of a stove. Or maybe it was a pan of brownies that just came…
Allow me to state the obvious: it has been a long time since we have met together with our churches and with the students in our ministries. I am sure that none of us, as we prepared our…
In many of our communities, the warm weather and slowly relaxing guidelines surrounding COVID-19 will provide an opportunity to meet with students in small groups. We asked Rooted writers to share their developing plans for summer ministry with…
In this week leading up to Father’s Day, we celebrate dads and acknowledge the difficulty of their vital role in this fallen world. Yesterday, we examined some of the challenges men have in overcoming hurt and sin in…
