The Jews are God’s blessing to the world, per His promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:2-3. In part 1 we saw how this truth is demonstrated in the gifts of Christmas, the Scripture, much of our vocabulary, monotheism, the Biblical worldview, the concept of work as worship, and our significance
The world has the Jews because of God’s great promise to bless all the nations of the earth through Abraham. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those
The Pursuit of Happiness Photo by Lesly Juarez on Unsplash One of classical
By far the most widely read of all our blogs is School vs. Education: The Difference Matters. Now Canadian essayist and poet David Solway has written a disturbing piece of similar tone at PJ Media, The End of Education. Consider this excerpt: It has taken a hundred years to ruin
At its heart, the pursuit of happiness is moral, not hedonistic. The pursuit of happiness is fulfilled in freedom – the opportunity to do good, not in license – the right to do wrong. The pursuit of happiness is found by living within the moral universe, not in seeking to
A call to build education around God’s Word, Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash “‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘It means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’” (Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll) One of the distinctives
In response to a reader burdened by the current crisis at the US-Mexico border, we are reposting two articles about immigration that Darrow wrote last year. Even though these posts predate the current situation, the material is still applicable, and the articles highlight universal principles. Here’s the first, originally
Jesus feeds the multitude, as painted by Giovanni Lanfranco God’s word is wonderful. Over the years I have come to see that it is inexhaustible in its breadth (it is the “owner’s manual”) and its depth (you can read the same passage hundreds of times over the years and always
In addition to being fortified with a mind and a heart, each human being is endowed with a will, the attribute of purpose. Man is in possession of volition, he is free to make choices that create history. Have you ever thought of that? You have the ability to make
What is the pursuit of happiness as articulated in the Declaration of Independence? Pause for a moment and ask yourself, what does that phrase mean? And what did Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and the others who signed it, understand it to mean? It certainly did
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