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“The explicit absence of God in public life is now normal, and this new normal hardly needs official enforcement. With weakness of will and self-abnegation, Western Christians gaze at the ravishment of their Western heritage, either blaming themselves or, even worse, reveling in their humiliation. Christians today live in and fully embrace the conditions of…
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Roughly Defined… Salvation…what sort of mental images does that word bring to bear? We Christians pride ourselves on the gospel of Jesus Christ, the gospel of salvation, but what is meant by that one word? What are we being saved from? Why do we believe others need saving? These questions and many more are vitally…
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“Your assumptions can’t be validated. Not everyone at the founding of this nation had a biblical worldview, many popular men were at best deists; Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are just a couple names that illustrate this point.” That’s what the email said that I had been waiting for. Those weren’t the exact words of…
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The concept of worldviews was popularized by philosopher Immanuel Kant, and it didn’t take long for others to jump on board in secular/religious circles. While, some might laud Kant for this gem of a philosophical find, the fact is worldviews have always been in existence…even if people did not identify them in common parlance. Every…
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How does God will for things to be done? What is meant by the “will of God?” Theologians tend to define the will of God in two specific categories: decretive and preceptive. The decretive will of God is the eternal decree that He has purposefully set to do in history for His own good. Here…
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