With the encouragement of Disciple Nations Alliance president Scott Allen, we started Darrow Miller and Friends in 2008. In these 13 years we have published just over 1,350 posts. It has been a vigorous opportunity to serve the Kingdom of God, a wonderful journey which is now coming to an
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us ….” This is the shortest of the Christmas stories found in the Gospels. Matthew and Luke provide us with wonderful images and detailed stories of the birth of Christ. They speak of the star in the East guiding the Magi, the journey
Beauty comes from God. The most beautiful thing you have ever seen is beautiful because it reflects God. The most hideous thing you have ever seen is hideous because it distorts God’s nature. Part of our task in the Great Commission, connected to the Cultural Commission, is to create beauty.
Christians are generally familiar with Jesus’ mandate for the church, what we usually call the Great Commission, but fewer Christians are familiar with the Cultural Commission. Fewer still see the connection between these two commissions. Yet, neither has been rescinded. On the contrary, both remain active expressions of God’s purpose
Teach the nations to follow God’s laws God’s commands are beautifully simple and wonderfully profound. Through obedience to God’s commands people and nations find freedom, life, and peace. According to Jesus’ Great Commission, his disciples are to continually engage in teaching the nations. Nations are to actively obey all Christ
The West, as a whole, has developed beyond the rest of the world and in fact has blessed many in other parts of the globe. Notwithstanding its postmodern critics, including professors who love to censure Western civilization, the history of the West has something to teach the rest. While there
What makes nations thrive? In the previous post we highlighted six principles that lay under the founding of America. Today’s offering comprises the other four. 7. The Rule of Law Because all people are sinners, a healthy society requires the rule of law. The Bible reveals a just God who
God has a big agenda for the world. His intention is to see people in personal relationship with him through the salvation secured by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He has also called the saved to be transforming agents in society. God’s special revelation, together with general revelation,
A woman is different from a man. That reality, obvious to any kindergartner, is being contested in today’s West, a challenge that derives not from reason, logic, or science, but is the fruit of a worldview. And it will be successfully repudiated only at the level of worldview. That is,
Did you know God is a husband? The Bible is nuptial: it begins with the wedding of Adam and Eve and ends with the wedding of Christ and the Church. As the divine Husband, God established the pattern for marriage. God is a husband, the archetype of husbandly love and
