How Acts Informs Our Summer Missions

Take a look at some of our summer favorites this week across the Rooted Blog!  A few years ago we were having a discussion about the summer trips for our high school ministry. We had a long history…

Men of Action

Remember that scene in The Princess Bride where Wesley and Buttercup come out of the Fire Swamp having just survived the three terrors: flame spurts, lightning sand, and R.O.U.S’s? No? Then please stop reading immediately and go watch…

Essential Practices of Good Youth Ministry

In this series, “What Acts Teaches Us About Youth Ministry,” we are considering the way the apostles did ministry as described in the Book of Acts. Of course, the apostles were not doing youth ministry per say, but we can…

Youth Ministry and the Tyranny of the Urgent

In this series, “What Acts Teaches Us About Youth Ministry,” we are considering the way the apostles did ministry as described in the Book of Acts. Of course, the apostles were not doing youth ministry per say, but we can…

Youth Ministry in the Power of the Spirit

A youth ministry without the power of the Holy Spirit presents a neutered God. Nothing in the book of Acts leads me to believe that the Holy Spirit has stopped working among us. So, it may be a…