Helping Teenagers Process Graphic Violence: An Interview with Counselors Rahab Marshall and Gordon Bals
By caring for hurting teenagers well, we can help them choose to place their hope in Christ.
By caring for hurting teenagers well, we can help them choose to place their hope in Christ.
Our students matter—not because of their personality, popularity, or performance, but because the King of the stars loved them enough to die for them.
As we walk with our students through their hurts and disappointments, Psalm 33 shows how the Lord’s unfailing love comforts and heals their broken hearts.
We are not putting ourselves up as perfect Christians who always look like Jesus. Instead, we recognize that the same gospel that brought us our salvation is the very gospel we need to live out our faith.
As ministers of the gospel, we can recenter our students’ confidence by pointing them to the Savior who will not disappoint.
Paul refused to let ministry success go to his head or to let ministry failure go to his heart.
Jesus helps us integrate what we do with who we are becoming by his Spirit.
There isn’t a day when I behave so badly that I’m out of the reach of God’s grace; nor is there a day that I behave so well that I don’t need it.
Without the hope of Jesus’ work and worth on our behalf, we are left enslaved, but the gospel frees us from the need to strive or to prove ourselves.