When It’s More Than We Can Handle

Parents often come to youth ministers when they are at the end of their ropes and have tried everything to help their children.  Since Rooted is aiming to answer real questions on issues that youth workers are facing…

Books to Teach in Jr. High Youth Ministry: Mark

Paul said it well, “all Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching.” We can teach any book to group of people and expect spiritual benefit. Simultaneously, I have found in experience that certain books of the Bible…

How Youth Ministry Can Change the World

I wanted to pass on these quotes from an underrated yet outstanding youth ministry book. Ken Moser’s book Changing the World Through Effective Youth Ministry offers a strong outline for the foundations of a fruitful, Gospel-centered, discipleship-making youth ministry….

Rooted Recommends: Tyranny of the Urgent

It took me just 20 minutes to read Tyranny of the Urgent by Charles E. Hummel. That means that unless I am brief in this article, you could read most of the book by the time you finish reading my…

Developing Mature Worshippers: Part 2

Our effort to develop mature worshippers requires that we seek the Lord in prayer, asking for His insight into how our students presently worship, what a mature worshipper would look like, and what the next progressive step would…