Be encouraged: You have credibility. What you do is important; it is serious business. You have authority in your space. But from where does this authority and credibility come?
Let all of us- student, ministers, and parents alike- be encouraged that the most powerful change agent in the world remains Jesus Christ working through His bride, the Church.
In a recent high school youth group meeting I was teaching on Psalm 51. To illustrate a point about the nature of sin, I shared a passage from St. Augustine’s Confessions, in which he remembers stealing pears one…
This series seeks to provide comfort and guidance for new youth ministers. The series includes narratives from youth ministers in their first year of ministry and advice from veteran youth ministers to rookies. So how am I feeling…
Part 1: (Re)Framing the Conversation Part 2: So, Where Does Evil Come From? Part 3: Humanity, God’s Solution to Evil Last week in Part 2 of this series, we saw that evil is best understood as the privation…
As we saw in Part 1 of this series, the problem of evil isn’t an abstract philosophical problem. Evil really exists, and it affects us personally and tangibly. As we look at the evil in the world around…
This series seeks to provide comfort and guidance for new youth ministers. The series includes narratives from youth ministers in their first year of ministry, perspectives from those who just have finished their first year, and advice from…
Rooted contributor, Mark Howard, writes this important series about helping teens deal with their questions about the presence of evil and suffering in a world ruled by a good, sovereign God. If you’ve worked with youth for any…
Rooted Conference keynote, Ray Ortlund, provided this exceptional piece to the Gospel Coalition Blog, about how futile our doctrinal accuracy is if our lifestyles do not embody the Gospel. “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor…
