"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
In his perceptive book The Gravedigger File, Os Guinness discusses three processes that have gripped our culture in recent decades—secularization, privatization, and pluralization. In his words, secularization is the process through which, starting from the center and moving outward, successive sectors of society and culture have been freed from the decisive influence of religious ideas and …
Our perspective or worldview starts with our perspective on God. This view determines the set of rules by which we play, the standards and character we pursue, the source of our hope. Is it chanceor dance movesthe world? Is the worldblind and dumbor bloom, festal?A vain jestor holy feast? Eugene Warren, in Christographia XIV
Liberty has brought us the freedom to be a slave of righteousness Charles Ryrie What true freedom is: The ability to submit to God rather than be a slave of base human desires. 16 Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but as God’s slaves. 1 Peter 2:16 CSB …
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Constitution …
In The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, author Daniel J. Boorstin comments on the inconsistent and extravagant expectations of contemporary Americans: We expect anything and everything. We expect the contradictory and the impossible. We expect compact cars which are spacious; luxurious cars which are economical. We expect to be rich and charitable, powerful …
You may not realize it, but what you think about God determines how you handle life. For example: If you think God is waiting and watching to punish you, you’ll attempt to clean up the messes in your life alone. If you God is for you and has your back, you will run to Him …
True freedom enables us to love others as God loves. True freedom is being free to do the things God wants us to do, not being slaves to our natural desires. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,which God prepared beforehand, so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 …