This week the blog has been sponsored by Rooted Ministry, and today they are giving away five book bundles.

Are you trying to disciple teenagers and finding it harder than you imagined? We’ve been there, too. Rooted Ministry is led by a group of practicing youth ministers and parents of teenagers, and we work to advance gospel-centered youth ministry both at church and at home. 

Many of the resources we find are either encouraging people to try harder, be more fun or relevant, or are so focused on trends, that we see a drastic drop-off of students who stay in the church after high school graduation. In fact, studies show 70% of teenagers who were churched in adolescence leave the church after graduating from high school. Rooted’s big vision is to flip that statistic.

“We are weighing our teens down with unmeetable demands and it shows in the number of teens that leave the faith when they leave the home. Rooted Ministry offers something different. They offer the good news of what Christ has done for them. They offer Jesus. They offer grace. I personally am so encouraged by the work that Rooted is doing and I


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