I hope, if you are an American, you had a great day celebrating the estalishment of our covenantal republic. This whole series is designed to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of America. The founders of America lived with what I call a proleptic vision. This was a vision
When we say, as we did in the last post, that we live in a culture of death, we cannot stay on the surface. We must pull back the curtain on the spiritual realities driving cultural conflict. When a society rejects the living God, the universe becomes “disenchanted” — stripped
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
We have written about the transformation of Singapore from a poor, densely populated city-state to one of the most beautiful, prosperous cities in the world in half a century. It is truly a city in a garden. The story of Chicago, Illinois has some parallels. The Great Chicago Fire raged
What happens when a generation of young people fail to marry and have children? Not only does life diminish for them, but to the degree this develops as a pattern, the society will become self-absorbed and die from within. In reality, half the world’s countries have a fertility rate below
Recently I was talking with two artist friends in Brazil about a current project to develop an animated video from my lecture, “The Transcendence of Sexuality.” (See the video The Grand Design: Rediscovering Male and Female as Imago Dei, part of our Coram Deo online course.) During our conversation, one
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
Easter is a great time to reflect that the tyranny we see growing in our world today—with its gnawing sense of unease—is a direct consequence of our living in a post-truth culture. If truth is gone, what’s left? Raw power, the Darwinian hypothesis of “survival of the fittest.” We have
Artists have a unique opportunity to glorify God and bless the world. God is beautiful, and His beauty draws us into worshiping Him. He is beautiful, He is good; all truth comes from Him. Truth, Beauty and Goodness comprise the culture of the kingdom of God. The nations are waiting
A society does not end slavery, racism, or sexism merely by writing new laws. As we saw in part 1, the changes must begin at a moral level. An Old Testament example We read an example from Philemon, here’s one from Jeremiah. The word that came to Jeremiah from the
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