I. Opening: Why Should We Be Surprised? Ideas have consequences — and nowhere is this truth more starkly visible than in the demographic collapse now unfolding across the United States. The nation’s fertility rate has fallen to 1.57, the lowest recorded figure in American history, well below the 2.1 replacement
South Korea’s population slide is even more tragic than immediately apparent. This disturbing trajectory developed during a massive push to evangelize and spread the gospel! Korea’s anti-maternal, anti-familial and pro-death culture grew during a great evangelistic and church-planting movement. As every “world Christian” knows, South Korea has been a model
South Korea has been the crown jewel of evangelical missionary service since World War 2 but it may soon be “extinct” because everyone was preaching the gospel of salvation and no one was teaching “be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.” Declining Korean Birthrates This Bloomberg headline says it all:
Christmas celebrates the moment in history when a young woman conceived a child by the Holy Spirit and gave birth to the promised Messiah of the Jews and Savior of the world. For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be
We see the world changing before our eyes. Most of the changes are the consequences of abandoning truth and substituting new ideologies. We are moving from order to chaos, from truth to power. In today’s internet age, these changes are coming faster than ever. Changes that once took generations now
Evolutionists explain poverty in material terms Given that more Christians are alive than at any time in world history, that more churches (and more large churches) exist, why do our nations remain so broken? Secularism says that the roots of human brokenness in its many manifestations (hunger, poverty, injustice, environmental
Not quite three weeks ago we posted Socialism vs. Capitalism. It’s a hot topic, not to mention important, and the post has garnered lots of hits. So we are advancing the release of the video version in an effort to harness this interest and push the message out even further.
One of our most popular posts is entitled Turning Out the Lights in Japan: Negative Population Growth. Darrow wrote it after a Japanese physician told him, “We are turning out the lights in Japan. Japanese are no longer having children.” Click below to see the animation version at our YouTube channel.
Singapore, identified by its people as the “Garden City,” is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It has not always been so. On August 9, 1965, when Singapore gained independence from Malaysia, it was a dirty, crime-infested, corruption-ridden, poor, crowded, inhospitable, resource-deprived third-world nation, perched on a 286-square-mile
Food seems like an unlikely ingredient for cultural transformation (read discipling). But it clearly is. In a time when the Right seems hellbent on raping the planet and the Left is fixated on “climate change” there is a sane middle. There are voices speaking and hands working in their own communities
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