Christ Bearer

The very prospect of leading your family in devotions may give some of you a cold sweat.  For others, it may seem like an unbearable burden.  But teaching the faith at home needs to start with the faith being present in our home, not just passively, with a Bible on the bookshelf and a cross on the wall, but actively, on our minds, on our lips, and in our hearts. Family devotions are a way that you can place the faith on the minds, lips, and hearts of your family.  It doesn't have to be terribly complex.  You don't need to have gone to Seminary.  In fact, all you really need to be able to do is read, or possibly memorize. In our family, we place our daily devotional time in the midst of our bedtime routine.  For your family, it may work better around the kitchen table at breakfast or dinner time, or in the car when the daily dropping the kids at seven different sports takes place. You also don't need an overabundance of time - I think our family devoti...

Link from the publisher:  http://books.cph.org/trustthebible Books, movies, documentaries, very well-sourced Facebook posts (add sarcasm tag), and easily passed about memes often would have you believe that the Bible is about the least trustworthy book ever assembled.  That its origins are dubious and duplicitous, that its content is make-believe and unimportant, but simultaneously a threat to all mankind on account of its racist, sexist, bigoted language.  That it is riddled with errors and destroyed translation.  That it is the product of a variety of tale-tellers from so long ago, and is anything but “God’s Word.” You have seen these kinds of assaults on Scripture.  If you have not yet, you will.  I bet you have, at least at times, felt powerless to refute the claims. A. Trevor Sutton’s Why Should I Trust the Bible? (CPH, 2016) is a well-written, accessible resource to help you not to be overcome by this seeming avalanche of attacks....