For the church to be a positive force in creating healthy, prosperous and free societies, it must recover an understanding of the Cultural Mandate found in Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:15. Darrow describes the Cultural Mandate in his new book LifeWork this way: What God made in Genesis chapter 1 was
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Gardens of Versailles, by uggboy – Flickr, CC BY 2.0 One of the concepts necessary to be a useful disciple is the biblical difference between “reconciliation” and “restoration.” In the biblically cosmic sense, reconciliation is bringing the broken creation – including our souls – back into a right relationship with
I mentioned earlier that years ago I had a “revelation” when I was singing this hymn. This was the stanza that startled me. There is an imperative here, “No more let sins and sorrows grow!” How far? “As far as the curse is found.” Here in this hymn are marching
How are we to respond to this good news? The answer is found in the second line of the stanza: “Let men their songs employ!” What does this mean? To employ is “to use as an instrument of means” (Noah Webster’s 1828). We use a saw for cutting, a pen
