
Life Roots — a discussion around depth, life, and the growing pains therein.
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God is the Great Storyteller and He has a role for you to play. Your yes, like Mary’s, just might change the world too.
Who do your practices say you’re following? Remember, your life is a witness to those around you.
In the deeper places, we all desire to be wanted, yet so few of us look to the One who fashioned us.
Are you living with an increasing or decreasing awareness of God in your daily life? Employ practices to stay aware.
You don’t need to be a “math person” to understand math. The understanding of the good soil is he who wrestles and pursues learnedness.
A key way God blesses us is through the actions of other people. We ought to look for ways to use our abilities to be a blessing to others in their time of need.
Even Jesus learned obedience, not through heritage or supernatural power, but through suffering and trial.
Amidst true sorrow, there is reason for joy for those whose hope is in the Name of the Lord.
If we’re not careful, the amazing can become ordinary and the ordinary is easy to forget.
Beginnings give us an opportunity to think of the end. We will all give an account before God. At the start of 2025, is that something you’re ready for?
Take a moment amidst the craziness, remember what Christmas is here for. It’s the celebration of the birth of the King.
You become who your friends are, this Middle School adage rings true far beyond the awkward halls of adolescence.
In an ever-changing world, God doesn’t. Just how He spoke then, He just might speak like that to you.
In uncertain and frantic seasons, what do you depend on? The Psalmist charges us to return to hope.
What have you been believing for? Here’s a practice to help bring pointed prayer into your daily life.
It’s the knowing and remembering the story we’re in that informs how we ought to participate and spend our time — the macro sparks the micro.
Do you know what you’re waiting for? We’re called to live in remembrance and expectation that our King is coming back soon.
The things God has blessed us with ought to function as a catalyst to deeper faith and yet one more reason to serve those around us.
What if you received exactly as you have been believing, would anything even show up? A call to increase in our faith.
Don't murder, lie, cheat, or steal and watch the words you say. It's clear Biblically that our words are a key piece to our unity.
There's real value in our mistakes and shortcomings. God's able to take these and make us stronger for it.
When you know what you're looking for, suddenly you begin finding it everywhere - wisdom is like this.
What streams do you find yourself planted by today? Where we go for truth and guidance matters.
Talking with God is more like talking to your best friend than it is talking to the sky. How would things changed if you believed that?
Are you trying to become more like a better version or less like a worse version - see, fighting focused on the positive sets us up for greater success.
Do you recognize your need for God? It's not that our need for Him is any greater today than it was yesterday, rather it's our awareness of our need that ought to be growing.
It's my Rubik's cube that serves as a reminder that we were made with the capacity to learn, to grow, and to create – what is it for you?
There are eight words in Psalm 46 that have the power to change our entire paradigm - "be still and know that I am Lord."

Life Roots is authored by Zach DeMarcus, an aspiring world changer. He’d consider himself less of a problem solver and more of a problem observer. It’s the thinking through these observations with a Christian worldview that has prompted Life Roots.
With posts dropping weekly every Thursday, I invite you to join me in the discussion, to run into the storm and face the curveballs of life in community. Because, as always, the health of our height is determined by the strength of our depth. It’s so good to have you here.
Stay Rooted!
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And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:6-7
In a world ruled by the grey, there’s life and death set before us. Knowing what is True enables us to choose life.