Welcome to Rooted’s Top Ten, a curated reading list for youth ministers. Each month we find ten articles, and sometimes videos or podcasts, from various sources that we believe will encourage you in your ministry to teenagers and their families.
As youth ministers, one of our tasks is to remind our teenagers who they are in Christ. Our prayer is that they will delight in the Lord, serve him faithfully, and live their lives with purpose.
We need to to encourage our students to trust God’s plans for their lives by modeling surrender and trust as we lay down our desires for our ministry and our lives.
If you have a teenager in your life, you are probably well acquainted with the rise of mental health issues among the younger generations. But navigating these challenges with the teenagers in our care can feel like walking through a maze blindfolded.
By caring for hurting teenagers well, we can help them choose to place their hope in Christ.
Our students matter—not because of their personality, popularity, or performance, but because the King of the stars loved them enough to die for them.
You are the message. You are the evidence. You’re the letter people read to know what Christ is like.
