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The Plays C. S. Lewis Read Every Year for Holy Week

Familiarity breeds complacency well before it breeds contempt. When was the last time you noticed the color of your living room? How long since you’ve delighted in the flavor of the “new” recipe you’ve cooked every two weeks for the past two years? Even if you lived on the rim of the Grand Canyon, you’d eventually take the scenery for granted. Similarly,...

Thu Mar 28, 2024 08:09
Jesus Made Your Moral World (Even If You’re an Atheist)

The poet Linda Ellis tells us the most important element on any tombstone is the dash between the years. “It matters not how much we own, the cars, . . . the house, . . . the cash,” she writes. “What matters is how we live and love, and how we spend our dash.” The Gospels tell us Christ made a world of difference in the space between his birth and...

Wed Mar 27, 2024 09:42
How to Protect Your Kids from Sexual Abuse

Parents, educators, caring adults, and the church have grown more alert to the need to teach kids tangible ways to stay safe from abuse. Since concerned adults like you and me can’t always be with children, we must educate them in concrete, child-appropriate safety skills. Every child is different. Some are naturally more cautious or distrustful; others...

Wed Mar 27, 2024 07:20
Hopeful Living in a Weary World

Are you experiencing hope fatigue? Are you wearied by our culture of contempt? Are you exhausted by being in a continual state of outrage? If you answered yes, maybe that’s why you listen to or watch the Gospelbound podcast. You also might want to pick up the new book by Irwyn Ince, because he asks these three questions at the outset of Hope Ain’t...

Tue Mar 26, 2024 09:38
You Can Parent Teens with Hope in a Secular Age

Raising teens has never been easy. Parents have run-of-the-mill concerns we think about each day: Will my teen make the team? Does she have a friend to sit with at lunch? How did he do on that test? Will my teen have a date for the dance? And in our increasingly secular age, additional fears and questions arise: Is my son anxious or depressed? Is she...

Tue Mar 26, 2024 09:38
The Untold Story Behind the Hymn ‘Man of Sorrows’

A local ministry recently gifted me a book—Man of Sorrows, King of Glory: What the Humiliation and Exaltation of Jesus Mean for Us by Jonty Rhodes. Because I was unfamiliar with the book and its author, I initially read the table of contents and the acknowledgments. From the beginning, it was evident all the chapter headings came from the hymn “Man...

Tue Mar 26, 2024 05:43

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