This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Korea national suicide” Has Church Growth Contributed to a Nation’s Suicide? Has Church Growth Contributed to a Nation’s Suicide? part 2 South Korea has been the crown jewel of evangelical missionary service since World War 2 but it may soon be
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Christmas celebrates the moment in history when a young woman conceived a child by the Holy Spirit and gave birth to the promised Messiah of the Jews and Savior of the world. For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be
We see the world changing before our eyes. Most of the changes are the consequences of abandoning truth and substituting new ideologies. We are moving from order to chaos, from truth to power. In today’s internet age, these changes are coming faster than ever. Changes that once took generations now
Overpopulation is often used to describe places like India. Any Westerner visiting India for the first time is struck with the teeming masses of humanity, a seemingly endless sea of people wherever you look. My Indian host, a seminary grad and one of the most gifted Christian leaders I’ve ever
Recently, in the span of a week, three stories caught my attention, three stories from three nations: Uruguay, Japan, and the USA. The first story came from a friend in Montevideo, Uruguay, who told me that Uruguay’s fertility rate of 1.86 is one of the lowest on the continent. Even
Some time back I was talking to a young man who had married about a year earlier. The conversation turned to children and he remarked that they weren’t sure they were going to have kids. I gently reminded him that the Bible considered such a position abnormal, that God told
We have written many times in this blog about gendercide – the war against females and the impact on societies. We have also written on the need for artists to speak prophetically to culture. Here is a story that combines the two. Balladeer and Chinese artist Li Tianbing has powerfully
Perhaps few people are aware of the powerful impact the Protest Reformation had on life expectancy in Europe. Prior to the 16th century European Reformation, virtually the entire world was poor including all of Europe. Andrew Bernstein, adjunct professor of philosophy at Pace University, writes: Most people forget that pre-industrial