Episodes
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What is the best C.S. Lewis book? What order should the Narnia books be read in? Cole, Ben, and Terry discuss the best way to start reading Lewis in this Friday bonus episode.
4 days ago
The Narnian: C.S. Lewis, Part 5
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For most people, Lewis is known first and foremost as a fiction writer. Many families have entered the wardrobe together and experienced Lewis in Narnia. Though these were not his only works of fiction, they give an insight into why he wrote fiction and what he was trying to accomplish by creating and exploring other worlds.
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
The Apologist: C.S. Lewis, Part 4
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Lewis is best known today as an apologist. Through Mere Christianity and other works like Miracles and The Problem of Pain, Lewis stands as one of the great defenders of the faith in the 20th century. What was it that made him so uniquely gifted at explaining and contending for the faith? In this episode, Cole, Terry, and Ben explore C.S. Lewis's apologetic works, his method, and his legacy.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
The Mere Christian: C.S. Lewis, Part 3
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
After his reluctant conversion, C.S. Lewis's life began to change. In his friendships and work at Oxford, his faith started to make a difference. But a phone call changed everything. When Lewis was invited to address the nation on the BBC about spiritual hope during WWII, he started to become the C.S. Lewis we know today. From then on, he would write book after book, letter after letter, and become the world spokesman for "mere Christianity."
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
The Most Reluctant Convert: C.S. Lewis, Part 2
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
“In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed, perhaps that night the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” This is no normal conversion story, but so C. S. Lewis narrates his journey of faith in Surprised by Joy. Like so many parts of Lewis’s life, his conversion is full of surprises, twists and turns, and the evidence of God’s work. Throughout his life, Lewis was blessed with rich friendships, and in this episode, his friends, his past, and the God he had been “trying not to meet” come together in a remarkable and reluctant conversion.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Searching for Joy: C.S. Lewis, Part 1
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Before he was known to the world as C. S. Lewis, “Jacks” as his friends and family called him, struggled through his early years. After his mother’s passing and the trenches of the Great War, Lewis was a fledgling scholar trying to make his way in the world. But he was also searching for Joy. This opening episode traces Lewis’s life from the paradise of Little Lea to the trenches on the Western Front and back to Oxford again.
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Maundy Thursday and the New Passover with Terry Feix
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
On Thursday of Holy Week, Jesus ate the Passover meal with his disciples in what we now call the "Last Supper." Then he washed the disciples' feet, and they went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. But Maundy Thursday gets its name from something else that happened that Thursday. Jesus gave his disciples a "new commandment," or in Latin, a "new mandate" to love one another. This command of love has been celebrated in the church for centuries.
In this message, Terry Feix gives a message on Maundy Thursday and explains the way the whole Bible comes together in Jesus's final meal.
Watch Terry teach live today at Crossings Community Church.
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Pontius Pilate with Terry Feix
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
One of the great conversations in the Bible is between Jesus and Pontius Pilate in John 18-19. Pilate is shrouded in mystery, and we know very little of his life outside of the Bible. Cole and Terry discuss Pilate's life, the role he plays in Jesus's death, and what we can learn as we anticipate Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Monday Mar 25, 2024
The Songs of Easter with Dr. Kim Arnold
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
The Easter season is full of great music, and one way to focus on Christ's death and resurrection during Holy Week is to read, sing, and meditate on great hymns from Christian history. Dr. Kim Arnold has picked out 5 hymns for Holy Week this year that guide our hearts to the cross and the empty tomb. To read about these hymns, see her article, "Hymns for Lent."
"O Sacred Head Now Wounded" - Paul Gerhardt
"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" - Isaac Watts
"O Love Divine, What Hast Thou Done?" - Charles Wesley
"In Christ Alone" - Keith Getty and Stuart Townsend
"Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" - Charles Wesley
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Empires: Greece with Terry Feix
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
It is impossible to understand the world of the New Testament without Greek culture, philosophy, and history. But the Greeks play a role in the Old Testament, too, and between the Testaments. In this episode, Cole and Terry look at the Greeks and the ways God used this region and these people to work his plan in the world.