Inviting Your Children into the Easter Story







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Inviting Your Children into the Easter Story

By: Jim Daly


When Easter comes around every year, many people think of chocolate, colored eggs, and strange looking rabbits carrying baskets.

As Christians, we know there’s a lot more to the story — Jesus’ triumphal parade, His last supper with His disciples, His brutal death on the cross, and His bodily resurrection.

The events surrounding the Easter story can evoke a complicated mix of emotions — sadness and joy, anger and gratitude, fear and trust. These mature themes can be challenging for adults to process.

Imagine how your children must feel.

To discuss how to share the significance of the Easter story with your children and to help them explore and process the powerful emotions evoked during Holy Week, we’ve invited Dr. Josh and Christi Straub to be our guests on our Focus on the Family Broadcast “Inviting Your Children into the Easter Story.”


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Why Women Are Not Having the Babies They Say They Want




By: Daily Citizen Staff






Babies are important for many reasons. Not least of which, they are the future. Literally.

Unfortunately, every developed nation in the world, and too many underdeveloped nations, are not having the babies needed to simply replace their present population, much less see essential, healthy growth. This is a very serious problem.

Compelling women to have more babies than they desire is an ethical problem. But let us not assume this underpopulation is necessarily a problem of desire.

We must ask these obvious questions: Are women having all the babies they desire? Or are they just not wanting enough babies to replenish the human population?

These are important questions because helping women accomplish their most important life goals is critical to life satisfaction. And nearly every mom will tell you at length that their babies easily rank at the top of the most important parts of their lives.

So how many babies do women actually desire and how many are they actually having?

Demographer Lyman Stone wrote in The New York Times some years ago that this gap is “far short of what women themselves say they want for their family size.” Women generally report that they would like to have an average of 2.7 children, while in reality they will only have 1.8 on average. Men report essentially the same ideal fertility rate as women.







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Teens Volunteer to Help Seniors Learn Technology, Forging Friendships Along the Way




By: Zachary Mettler






As any parent knows, most teenagers spend way too much time on their phones; the average is seven hours and 22 minutes per day. However, a group of teenagers recently decided to put their screentime to good use.

A recent report from CBS News highlights the CLEO initiative, started by a group of helpful teens who put their knowledge of technology to work, helping elderly care patients figure out how to use their smartphones.

The group of high school students — Derrick Hueniken, Christian Laquis and Aaron Smolyar — started CLEO, short for Computer Literacy Education Outreach, in 2021.

The teenagers “were joking about how bad their grandparents were with technology ... When the laughter faded, Aaron Smolyar was struck with an idea.”

The group decided to walk over to the Brookdale Senior Living center after class to help any senior in need learn how to operate their iPhones and Androids.

“They’ve been volunteering ever since, showing seniors how to connect using technology. Jonathan Smith, a resident at Brookdale, said he couldn’t figure out how to text a picture until one of the CLEO kids explained it to him,” CBS News reports.

“The volunteers also helped Nancy Kirkpatrick clear out her inbox, which was chock-full of emails — over 122,000 unread messages.”







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The Quiet but Powerful Faith of the Founder of the Masters Tournament




By: Paul Batura






The 87th edition of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia begins on Thursday, a storied event that transcends the sport and remains a rare mixture of athletic excellence, gentlemanly sportsmanship, and rich tradition.

Dating back to 1934 and known originally as the “Augusta National Invitational Tournament,” the annual competition takes place on the former property of Fruitland Nurseries. Owned by Louis Berckmans, a Belgian baron, the iconic clubhouse was once the family home. The three-story house, complete with concrete walls that are 18 inches thick, was built in 1854. Golf charms aside, it’s a good reminder that if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. Don’t just build for today. As the old saying goes, “The quality is remembered long after the cost is forgotten.”

The man most responsible for Augusta National and the Masters tournament was Robert Tyre Jones, better known as Bobby Jones. Bobby Jones holds the distinction of being the first man to win all four major tournaments in a single year, 1930: the British Open, the U.S. Open, as well as the British and U.S. amateur championships. One writer called it “the impregnable quadrilateral.”

The Club opened for play in 1932. The first tournament was held on March 22, 1934. It was in the 1920s when Bobby Jones met up with Clifford Roberts, a successful investment banker, and together the two men selected the 365-acre property for the home of the new golf club. They could see its potential, especially the prospect of the stately trees and colorful azaleas sprinkled throughout the property.







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Should Every Church Start a Christian School?




By: Jeff Johnston






A Chicago pastor recently announced that he and his church wanted to start an all-boys Christian school, beginning with first through eighth grades.

The Christian Post reported:

“T.J. Grooms, an assistant pastor at Chicago’s New Beginnings Church, homed in on his church’s desire to create an all-boys Christian school for students in the first through eighth grades.”

Grooms said that the school would encourage students to embrace “the Kingdoms Culture.” He added: “We need to make a concerted effort to win our young men and to train them as being the heads of their families, understanding the importance of manhood, not when we see them as a teenager but instill into them those ideas and those principles in their formative years.”

Joseph Backholm, senior fellow for biblical worldview and strategic engagement at Family Research Council, believes that every church should do what New Beginnings Church is doing and start a Christian school.

He acknowledges that not all churches have the resources to do so, but adds, “Not every church is big enough to sustain their own Christian school, but every church is big enough to be part of one.”

In Backholm’s new downloadable brief, “Why Every Church Should Start a Christian School,” he gives several reasons why we should advocate for educational freedom and why we need more Christian schools, explaining how our education system has developed over the years.







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