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CHURCH WITHOUT A VIEW: The Blindness of a Sacred-Secular Divide

I’ve often said that if the church does not disciple the nation the nation will disciple the church. In his thought-provoking paper, “A Church Without A View: Jonathan Edwards and Our Current Lifeview Discipleship Crisis,” theologian and pastor David Scott demonstrates how that has happened. He laments the absence of

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What the Jews Can Teach us About the MORAL UNIVERSE

This is post 1 of 2 in the series “the Jews and the world” What the Jews Can Teach us About the MORAL UNIVERSE Why Does the World HATE THE JEWS? Three questions interweave in ways that may not be immediately evident: they all relate to the moral universe. Why

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How the Covenant-Making God Broke the Cycle of Poverty

Genesis chapter 3 records the rebellion and consequent fall of humans. The creation fell under a curse, and a vicious cycle of human poverty began. People worshiped gods of their own imagination, small family gods, tribal gods, capricious gods of nature with limited power. These gods were unpredictable, they ruled

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A Cultural Impasse Rooted in Worship

The events of January 6, in Washington DC, with the storming of the US Capitol, during the debate over certification of the Electoral College votes, stunned the nation and the world. The nation’s capital city became a fortress for the inauguration of President Joe Biden, including aggressive fencing and other

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