Ask Rooted: How Do You Keep Jesus at the Center of Your Youth Group Christmas Party?
Often we walk away from these events sensing that the meaning of Christmas has been lost in the wrapping paper and accompanying sugar high.
Often we walk away from these events sensing that the meaning of Christmas has been lost in the wrapping paper and accompanying sugar high.
Teens and young adults want to know: if God is so loving, why does he allow his people, whom he saved through faith in Jesus Christ, to suffer?
Church is a place of refuge, the only place I know of where who I am is not determined by what I do.
Only Jesus can reveal himself to us, and he is the only source of grace, salvation, and deliverance. To tell ourselves otherwise is not the gospel.
We parents have to wrestle our own competitive streaks to the ground before we can even begin to model gospel-formed attitudes about sports to our children.
The Jesus I Wish I Knew in High School has become an invaluable resource in preparing these short, grace-filled words for our weekly meeting.
Until I realized that I was trying to be my own savior and conquer the pressures of high school by myself, I did not realize I was seeing Jesus incorrectly.
For those of you who are overwhelmed today, look to Jesus for the grace, peace and rest that only he can provide.
The Shema does not give us the option of setting up our youth ministries adjacent to the church body. Instead we must locate them inside of the church body.