Rooted’s Most Read: Why I Love Discipling Students Through This Hopeless Babylon
I love student ministry because while our culture has so little hope for the next generation, God’s hope for them and his plan for them has no limits.
I love student ministry because while our culture has so little hope for the next generation, God’s hope for them and his plan for them has no limits.
If we over-fondly remember pre-pandemic “normal” as some kind of Eden we’ve been kicked out of, we risk sounding like the Israelites yearning for slavery in Egypt as they faced the privations of the desert.
Jesus understands your pain and rejection. And yet, he remained faithful to complete his mission, even while praying on the cross, “Father, forgive them. They do not know what they are doing”.
In a world that is quick to cancel, the Christian response to the sins of our brothers and sisters is not quiet submission or public shame, but Gospel-centered critique spoken in love.
Clinging to his promise that he will return to claim us, we, like Elizabeth Turner, must wait on the shores for our long-lost husband, the bridegroom of all bridegrooms.
“… Darkness is my closest friend.” (Psalm 88:18) “… My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’” (Psalm 42:3) “My God, my God, why have you forsaken…
The (Good) News for Teenagers – February Edition We live in the time of both social media and the 24-hour news cycle. Whether we see it or not, our teenagers are inundated with news both local and international….
I love youth ministry because our culture has so little hope for our students. Pundits talk about “losing a generation” to their cell phones. The sociologist Jean Twenge reports that teens “are on the verge of the largest…
This doesn’t happen very often, but I was only a chapter into Jessica Thompson’s latest book How to Help Your Anxious Teen when I knew I would call it a “must-read” for both parents and youth pastors. It’s…