Posts by CGS Leadership
Why Jesus Came
“…This, I think, is my favorite Advent text because I don’t know any other that expresses so clearly the connection between the beginning and the end of Jesus’s earthly life — between the incarnation and crucifixion….” …
Truth and Pain, in “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
A 57-year-old widowed father of six children, the oldest of which had been nearly paralyzed as his country fought a war against itself—wrote a poem seeking to capture the dynamic and dissonance in his own heart and the world he observes around him that Christmas Day. The True Story of Pain and Hope Behind “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
New Song — ‘Christ Our Hope in Life and Death’
Christianity that ignores the reality of death is utterly inauthentic… https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/video/new-song-christ-hope-life-death/
FAQs Regarding the Coronavirus
Since the beginning of this year, we’ve been reading and hearing about a family of viruses known as coronaviruses. There are 69 species of this virus, seven of which can affect humans. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-we-know-coronavirus/
C.S. Lewis on the Coronavirus
It’s now clear that COVID-19 is a deadly serious global pandemic. Still, C. S. Lewis’s words—written 72 years ago—ring with some relevance for us. Just replace “atomic bomb” with “coronavirus.” https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/cs-lewis-coronavirus/