This blog highlights one of the most important truths for understanding America’s story—and our calling in this 250th anniversary year. One of the great myths of our age is that freedom can exist apart from a moral and spiritual foundation. Yet a people who believe that eventually surrender the very
God is very clear that mankind is not to make idols. The first and second commandments teach, “You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
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
Envy, one of the roots of racism, often springs from the faulty assumptions of zero-sum economics. The Judeo-Christian worldview establishes a positive sum economic model. God created an open universe, open to God, angels and imago Dei humans. In this economic model, the creation is to be stewarded and wealth
What is God’s view of singleness? Where does the single person fit in God’s plan for marriage and family formation? I often hear that question from unmarried people—especially women—after they hear me lecture on the maternal heart of God, or read my book Nurturing the Nations. This question is worthy
One narrative frames all truth Every narrative has a beginning. The opening line of a narrative is the beginning of the story line. The story line creates the framework for the characters in the story. This is true not only of written stories, but of cultural narratives as well. The
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
Humans were created imago Dei We live at a time of increased identity crisis and confusion. The worldview called Modernism or Naturalism views us as merely animals, descendants of apes. Postmodernism sees our biology, the physical platform, as meaningless, merely a social construct, a product of our imagination. We see
Our first installment ended by noting Naomi’s bitterness of soul upon returning to Israel, a widow bereft of her children. But what did Ruth do? And what about Boaz? Naomi heard that the famine had lifted in Israel, so she and Ruth returned to her village. Hebrew law required the
The grainy screen grab captures a heroic moment in Dallas, Texas, last month. A woman on a motorcycle was hit by a vehicle and dragged underneath. She was saved when police officers, firefighters and witnesses lifted the car and pulled her to safety. Police officers and firefighters are supposed to
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