Kingdom Culture in Youth Ministry: On Money and Worry

This is the second article in our series, “Building a Kingdom Culture in Our Youth Ministries.” In this series, we will address passages from the Gospel of Luke, which demonstrates that the culture of God’s Kingdom is that…

Conversions Can’t Be Mass-Produced

“To be honest, I’m starting to believe that God may not even be real.” These words, uttered by the student sitting across the table, haunted me as we finished up our lunches. They did not, unfortunately, come as…

Inviting Students to Count the Cost

As I talked with Eric, it slowly became clear that his understanding of grace was incomplete. Even though he had attended church for years, he continued to insist that he deserved to be punished by God for his…

Should the Youth Pastor Denounce Trump?

That’s complicated isn’t it? On the one hand, it feels like youth pastors have a responsibility to say something. Trump embodies and communicates unchristian positions about women, refugees, foreigners, the disabled, human rights, and personal morality. And now…

The Top Ten: December 2016

Happy New Year! Thanks for exploring the Rooted Top Ten with us throughout 2016. This month marks the one year anniversary of our Top Ten list, and we hope it has born insight, relief, and more of the…