In this episode of Straight to the Heart, our host, Rush Witt, spends time with Champ Thornton who is the author of numerous books for kids and an acquisitions editor for Crossway. Champ and Rush talk about raising kids who are in sync with reality, the good gift of coffee, and learning to write fiction. Champ also shares encouragements to think clearly about family devotional time, and helping...
He still calls her Sweetie. My wife, Gladine, and I were enjoying a visit with our friends, Ray and Rosemary. They are well into their nineties and have been married for an incredible 75 years. We were captivated by how this long-married couple looked at one another and spoke to each other. There was a mutual tenderness—a tangible, loving care for one another as husband and wife. Being married...
The Really Radical Book for Kids by Champ Thornton continues the exciting dive into the roots of the Christian faith started in The Radical Book for Kids, winner of the ECPA’s 2018 Christian Book Award for Young People’s Literature. This new edition offers young readers more Bible exploration, more history, and more faith-filled direction for how to live as a believer in the here and now. The...
In this episode of Straight to the Heart, our host, Rush Witt, talks to Lainey Greer, an author and personal trainer who blends her exercise science expertise and systematic theology to equip Christians for body stewardship. Lainey talks about her writing ministry and podcast, and returning to her hometown of Knoxville, TN. And most importantly, she helps us think more clearly about our theology...
GenZ is an increasingly non-Christian generation. Church kids are walking away from the faith as they grow into adulthood. Although I’m skeptical about some of the statistics, there is an undeniable problem that needs to be addressed. I have served in full-time youth ministry for nearly two decades. That means this concern isn’t about statistics to me—it’s about individuals I love. This includes...
