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All in Culture
Centralized organizations, whether governments or sports leagues love to "play" god. They like to try to "give" people rights (as though they have that power), they like to try to disperse blessings and curses and they like to try to reconcile groups of people. Yet in every attempt to do this without the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ only further animosity prevails.
The truth is that every kingdom of man will fall before the Kingdom of God. Yet the way the Kingdom of God prevails is through suffering servitude. When the kingdoms of men pick up the sword against the Lord's anointed we are not to draw our swords like Peter did in the garden (John 18:10).
The fact is hospitality is a central theme to the scriptures, particularly in the ways that it points to the incarnation and God's desire to once again dwell with
The world is no longer majestic and mysterious. Rather, everything can be known scientifically. All things can be boiled down to left or right. Perhaps what we really need is a return to
Though every non-Christian philosopher may have stolen the good stuff that they have found, at bare minimum they’ve provided more opportunities to learn about God, his nature, and his creation. Athens has a great deal to do with Jerusalem, and followers of Christ would do well to become familiar with it, though they ought not become citizens of it.
Hansen rightly states that a Trinitarian worldview is both the One and the Many, but the thesis of his article leaves too much room for fascism—especially Christian fascism in the name of “loving your neighbor.” This fascism, if not invoked by policy, would certainly be invoked by cultural coercion.
Of all the ideological "sleight-of-hands" the modern thought police have pulled off, perhaps the greatest of them is convincing the modern mind that it was religion & not
We've been conditioned to believe that our views only hold public weight when they are confirmed through an election or the cultural elites of the New York Times. What this has created is entire generations of Americans who believe they must validate their views and perspectives through national laws. Nothing could be more destructive to communities.
We inescapably tell stories because we are fitting events into a particular view of the world (worldview). When a certain event takes place which would break down a particular view of the world stories are told about that event in order to invite its hearers
Mirror Pond Pale Ale is a simple beer in my opinion. A simply and delightful pale ale that has hidden elements of sweetness and tons of hoppy goodness.
The day was nice so I started with the White IPA called "Chainbreaker." This is an IPA brewed with wheat and the you'll not miss the wheat.
Rather than coming straight on in an open attack
Because Yong has both an inside and outside perspective to evangelical theology he is graced to see certain presuppositions that many within are blind to. Forefront in Yong's estimation is an assumption that evangelical thought is thoroughly in line with the Enlightenment quest.
When we learn to read the Bible as God’s story of redemption then we can actually begin to see plot lines extending beyond the pages of scripture and into the very worlds we inhabit. In doing so we allow the rich and beautiful complexity of the Bible pervade our lives rather than forcing the sterility of our modern minds onto the Bible.
The way to get to someone's heart is not (solely) through the mind. We humans are more than just "brains on a stick." God gave us bodies and, therefore, the whole body must be
The atheists are decrying the pure unreasonableness of belief in God while the philosophy departments in America and Europe continue to burst at the seems with Christian philosophers.
The insistence that we approach the Bible to find out what it "says to me" opposed to a historically informed reading is heavily influenced by postmodern thought; regardless of how
Libertarianism is sometimes treated as a complicated moral, political, and economic system. While there may be some relatively complicated positive applications of it, libertarianism is a simple system of principles.
All of our current confusion over sexuality and marriage has only been made possible through the prior disintegration of communities. Both city life and suburbia give the guise of community by either placing one amongst many people (city) or by placing the family in a "guarded" castle (suburbia). Yet in both instances community (for the most part) is far, far away.
