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Dec 16, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Ginger Blomberg
Just over a decade ago, my daughter had a school assignment to write a letter to a living author she admired. She was stumped. She loved reading but had an innocently misinformed feeling that all the best authors were long deceased. Little did she know, a new wave of Christian fantasy fiction was already rising. In the first two decades of the new millennium, books like 100 Cupboards, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, and The Green Ember hit the shelves.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Ginger Blomberg
Editors’ note: This series surveys some of the best picture books for children, Christian and non-Christian alike. We pray these roundups would offer opportunities for conversations with children, stir faith in Christ, and point to the things that are good, true, and beautiful.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Sarah Walton |Ginger Blomberg |Kristen Wetherell
This article is part of the Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions series. True RepentanceWhat if I sin too much? Will God still forgive me? These kinds of questions are questions that kids ask all the time, and if they don’t verbally ask it, they're often thinking it as we’re working through discipline and teaching them right and wrong.
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May 10, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Courtney Doctor |Melissa Kruger |Vanessa Hawkins |Ginger Blomberg
The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Courtney DoctorWelcome, we are so excited to look out and see this many people, this many men and women wanting to know and talk about how to best Shepherd and care for women in your local congregations. So thanks for being here. I’m Courtney doctor and the director of women’s initiatives at the gospel coalition.
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May 8, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Kristie Anderson |Laura Spaulding |Brett McCracken |Ginger Blomberg
After three healthy pregnancies and births, I entered a season of deep sorrow with the miscarriages of my next three babies. These brought not only physical difficulties but also emotional and spiritual wrestling with grief and guilt. Then the Lord provided me with one final pregnancy that turned into an emotional rollercoaster. While serving as cross-cultural workers in Asia, we were stateside for a family emergency.
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May 8, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Kathryn Butler |Laura Spaulding |Brett McCracken |Ginger Blomberg
Dear friend, if you’re among those who cry out to God and yearn for his comfort, know you’re not alone. Your walk in the darkness cannot hide you from the Light of the World (John 8:12). Even when you can’t feel his presence, Jesus remains with you until the end of the age (Matt. 28:20), and nothing—not your shame, your despair, or the agony of depression—can separate you from his love (Rom. 8:38–39). Though every hour may seem hopeless and every day a painful ordeal, healing is possible.
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May 4, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Ginger Blomberg |Rebecca McLaughlin |John Beeson |Laura Spaulding
I vividly remember taking my youngest daughter to a zoo when she was about 20 months old and telling her, “When we walk around this next corner, you’re going to see the biggest land animal in the whole world!” We stepped past the trees, and there was an elephant right in front of us, with its trunk raised in salute. My daughter’s eyes grew wide with amazement, admiration, and maybe a little fear as she pointed in wordless wonder at the gigantic creature. “Guess what?” my husband said to her.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Ginger Blomberg |Champ Thornton |Rebecca McLaughlin |Justin Taylor
In the rugged, analog days before we could carry all human knowledge in our pockets, my grandmother had an encyclopedia set, and I tried to read the whole thing. I never did make it all the way from “aardvark” to whatever the last word in the Z volume was (I never made it to Z at all), but I loved the idea of all that information being organized and laid out like a feast for anyone willing to sit down at the table.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Ginger Blomberg |Kristen Wetherell
This article is part of the Answering Kids’ Hardest Questions series. God’s Love Is DifferentKids can ask really hard questions, and one question that kids can ask sometimes is, Does God love everyone the same? First of all, God’s love is really different than ours because it’s so much bigger than we can understand from a human perspective. Another thing that makes that question tricky is that there are different ways you can answer it. God doesn’t love one type of person more than another.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Ginger Blomberg
By teaching our children both law and grace, we can help them see the tragedies of both legalism and prodigalism. We can show them the beauty of God’s goodness and mercy through the life, death, and resurrection of his Son who loved us and paid the penalty for us. Once we see God’s grace to us, we can extend it to others in love.
