There can be a real temptation for parents to delight in our kids’ abilities that make us feel good about ourselves or that make us look impressive. “Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at…
Give kids permission to feel uncomfortable and equip them to remove themselves from those situations. In this episode of Ask Alice, Alice interviews counselor and author, Julie Lowe about her newest book, SafeGuards: Shielding Our Homes and Equipping our…
We need the Holy Spirit, and we need the gospel, to transform us into the kind of people whose love and affection for other people is not in response to what they do for us. Looking at Genesis 37, Cameron…
As parents who both serve on the staff of a local church, Chris and Katie Polski are aware of the unique challenges which press upon the children of vocational ministry leaders. In this episode of The Rooted Youth…
In her workshop at the 2021 Rooted Conference, licensed professional counselor and Rooted podcaster Alice Churnock talked about the strong need that our children and teens (especially girls) have to know who they are and to be known….
“As parents, we have to first keep our spiritual house clean.” Most parents would like to think we would never use our children to serve our own agendas, but the temptation to manipulate our children to get what we…
Until we can help a parent who is anxious, we’re not really fully going to be able to help the child. Because if parents are still anxious, it inevitably spills out when we never intend for it to. For…
The sin of partiality addresses all of the issues that we see in our day Teaching from James 2, with an eye towards Jesus’ prayer for unity in John 17, Jason Williams examines the effects of the sin…
The most peaceful, gratifying way to parent is to surrender your child completely to Jesus. Looking at one of the most difficult and ultimately beautiful passages in the Bible, Cameron and Anna discuss the freedom parents will experience when…
