How Do I Help Teens Who Doubt?

The movie 10 Cloverfield Lane follows a young woman named Michelle who is hit by a truck and knocked unconscious. She wakes to find herself on a bed locked in a room in an underground bunker. The man…

Jesus, from Beginning to End

Jesus, from the beginning to end, is all over scripture. In Luke 24, Jesus has resurrected from the dead and is walking with some disciples along the Emmaus Road. Luke says that Jesus “beginning with Moses and all…

Sharing God’s Incarnational Heart

The following excerpt comes from Liz Edrington in Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry (GCYM is a Crossway publication, and is primarily authored by Rooted writers). In Living Color: On the Incarnation It is a profound wonder that God decided to…

Hope from the Movie, Eighth Grade

You are working harder than you have ever worked in your life; your heart is pounding, your body aches, you are struggling to breathe, you are drowning. If you go under one more time, you fear you may…

What I Wish I’d Said

After speaking to a group of youth ministers at the 2018 Rooted Conference about filtering our teaching through the crucial distinction between the Law and the Gospel, one of the session attendees approached me with a question. The…