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
In this blog, we are picking back up where we left off in the Understanding the Times and Seasons series. To review, we have been exploring the need for a new rubric of symbols to better orient ourselves as believers in our current cultural moment. We drew from Nathan Stones
Happiness: You Can Find It In Any Circumstances Photo by Olivia Snow on Unsplash As we saw in the previous post, in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says happiness is not a condition of our
Recently, a Christian brother published a “sympathetic critique” of Darrow’s book Discipling Nations. He raised issues about Disciple Nations Alliance teaching that have been noted by others from time to time. Because of that, and in the spirit of a free exchange of ideas, we offer here, in six parts, our brother’s critique and
Balladeers shape culture We are witnessing the slow death of Western civilization and indeed whole nations in Europe and North America. Cultural Marxists and their moral and cultural relativist followers celebrate this deconstruction of Western culture and society. Others mourn the loss of the order that made the glory of Western civilization
Wisdom and its fruit—shalom—is found when we live in synch with God’s order. God governs the universe through a set of laws and ordinances. You could call them creation laws. They fit broadly into three categories: Truth (physical and metaphysical laws), Beauty (aesthetic laws), and Goodness (moral laws). Truth Truth
We rarely hear a theology of suffering today. What we are hearing more often is a theology of comfort. “Come to Christ and you will be blessed!” “Pray and God will give you a new car!” “Give God $10 and He will give you $100 back!” The prosperity gospel is not the true
If we truly believe in the kingdom of God, that belief will make a difference in the way we do ministry. Some years ago, I was at a conference for missionaries and development workers in Africa. I had a conversation there which highlights the division between two kinds of Christian
Here’s another suggestion flowing from the 2012 presidential election in America: It is time for a remnant to serve the nation. America was founded by men and women who were consciously Christian. They were Puritans in heart and mind, the grandchildren of the Reformation in Europe and children of the First
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