The Rooted Conference Podcast features plenaries, workshops and teachings from Rooted events and conferences.
“We need to teach explicitly on relationships and friendships. Give students relational risk that is tolerable, so they can increase that risk. Help them learn that life and relationship that is beautiful has some risk to it.” In…
“The best and most long-impacting youth ministries are those that have an appropriate intergenerational mindset.” Head pastor Chris Polski brings to bear his 15 years as a student pastor and many more as a head pastor. Here he defines…
“The whole Bible is about Jesus… this is a hermeneutic that helps us get to what is unique, what is transformative, what is the point of the whole Bible.” In this talk from Rooted 2022 in Kansas City, Jared…
“Under the authority of Scripture, deconstruction means testing an idea to [discern]: does this reflect the heart and the reality and the truth of God according to his Word?” The word “deconstruction” has become at best a buzzword and at…
“If you are discipling your children to follow Jesus, then you are automatically countercultural.” In this conversation from the Rooted 2022 Conference, Josh and Anna talk about the buzzword “countercultural,” and what it looks like to disciple our children to…
“An hour with a middle schooler is worth ten hours with a high schooler. Middle schoolers are way more teachable, way more impressionable, way more hungry, way more impacted by you giving them time and attention than high schoolers.”…
“Christian parents are so afraid of everything that’s out there; the reality is that stuff has very limited influence over kids compared to their parents’ influence.” In this important talk, Rooted founder Cameron Cole illuminates the importance of equipping…
“The remedy of shame is that we have to share our stories… When we share our stories, we are putting ourselves in a position of being known.” Clinical therapist Chris Ellman speaks to youth pastors and parents on the…
“God calls us to pick up our cross and follow him. When cultures and ideologies teach teens to avoid pain, we need to teach teenagers that they have the capacity, with the Lord’s help, with your help, to…
