Are artists inspired more often by God or driven to their art by a "beauty gene" inside them? T.M Moore takes a look at this notion, then compares it with the Christian Worldview. Click here.
PERSPECTIVES: Biblical Worldview: What It Is, and What It Is Not
John Stonestreet asks, "What does a Biblical Worldview really include?" For starters, it addresses like no other worldview both the profound goodness and evil residing in the world and the human heart. Click here.
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Lamentations 3:25-27
25The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. 26It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. 27It is good for a man that he... Read More
“Rubio Touts American Exceptionalism” is how the American Spectator summed up a well-received speech by senatorial candidate Marco Rubio at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference.
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But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. Hebrews 8:6
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Whereas animals perform their daily routines – hunting, mating, raising their young, and whatever else animals do – largely on the basis of past experience, human beings take an altogether different approach to life.... READ FULL ARTICLE »
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Until the Harvest
The Pattern of History (7)
“Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.”
Matthew 13:43
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Come the Harvest
The Pattern of History (6)
“The harvest is the close of the age…”
Matthew 13:39
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Environmental Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Should atheistic environmentalists be looking to God to help them in their cause? This BreakPoint commentary first appeared last fall.
If we can’t convince people to change their behavior to save the planet, maybe God can. Or so one atheist thinks.
These are discouraging times for environmentalists. The momentum to adopt sweeping measures to combat man-made global warming has slowed, even ground to a halt in some places.
Australia and New Zealand, for example, have rejected and repealed their attempts to reduce CO2 emissions. And the French public is up in arms over the
Global Warming and CO2
Our particularly cold winter was not the first unseasonable season to challenge the claims of global warming advocates. Chuck reminds of our cool summer, and points to some implications – and a valuable resource – for the whole climate change debate. This BreakPoint commentary was first published in October, 2009.Too bad the baseball playoff game between the Phillies and the Rockies was postponed last weekend...because of snow. It was kind of a cool summer, wouldn’t you say? And those folks enjoying the early snows out west this fall, well, they might actually be praying for a little global warming.OK,... READ FULL ARTICLE
Christians and the Environment
It’s All Worldview
In this first installment in a new series, Chuck sets the foundation for beginning to think as Christians about issues relative to climate change and the environment.
In his World Peace Day message, Pope Benedict XVI included caring for the environment as an important part of promoting peace. Nothing controversial about that—environmental degradation has often led to conflict over resources.
What was controversial was the Pope’s speaking about environmental issues as if the Christian worldview were true. Benedict told his audience that “respecting the environment does not mean considering material or... READ FULL ARTICLE
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of Your Kingdom is a scepter of uprightness. Psalm 45:6
The writer of Hebrews tells us that, in order to run our daily race in obedience to the Lord, we need to fix our eyes on Jesus, exalted at the Father’s right hand (Heb. 12:, 2). There we may discover the glory of God (2 Cor. 4.6) and find strength to persevere in our walk and calling before Him.
It’s interesting to note how many passages of Scripture tell us something about Jesus
Will pop culture be the end of historic Christianity?
I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
1 Corinthians 9.23
In Plato’s parable of the cave prisoners kept all their lives in a cave, contemplating the shadows on the wall, come to believe that this is all the reality there is. Then one escapes and discovers the outside world and, realizing there is more of color, vastness, wonder, and beauty than watching one’s own shadows bouncing in firelight against a cave wall, he returns to the cave to liberate his fellow captives into real life. Philosopher William Irwin... READ FULL ARTICLE
Seeing the Unseen
“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. ”
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Early in the musical Les Miserables, ex-convict Jean Valjean is taken in by a kind priest to be fed and housed for the night. Desperate and poor, Valjean gets up in the middle of the night to steal some... READ FULL ARTICLE
A central feature in the Biblical view of life is The Curse: the understanding that things are bad – that they’re not the way they’re supposed to be – because the world and everything in it has been broken by mankind’s sin. Jesus came to reverse The Curse by eliminating its cause (mankind’s sin) through his death and resurrection. He then returned to heaven, sending his redeemed followers out into the world to live lives that imitate his Curse-reversing mission.
The assumption is that as Christians live in this broken world, we will encounter the results of The Curse just
Reversing The Curse, Part 2
A central feature in the Biblical view of life is The Curse: the understanding that things are bad – that they’re not the way they’re supposed to be – because the world and everything in it has been broken by mankind’s sin. Jesus came to reverse The Curse by eliminating its cause (mankind’s sin) through his death and resurrection. He then returned to heaven, sending his redeemed followers out into the world to live lives that imitate his Curse-reversing mission.
The assumption is that as Christians live in this broken world, we will encounter the results of The Curse just as everyone... READ FULL ARTICLE
From the Dark Woods to the Light
Christians and the Arts
A guide in the woods?
Selva obscura…a dark woods. So the great tale begins with a lost, middle-aged man—the poet Dante. As he is confronted by his sin, he has one thing in his favor: others are sending him help. As he languishes, he sees a ghost. This shade is poet Virgil, who symbolizes human reason and serves as Dante’s guide. Virgil also is simply what he is—a poet who calls Dante to look up—beyond his dismal circumstances. This upward glance leads Dante to see the love that “moves the Sun and the other stars.”
Today, we find ourselves in a dark woods, and... READ FULL ARTICLE
Are artists inspired more often by God or driven to their art by a "beauty gene" inside them? T.M Moore takes a look at this notion, then compares it with the Christian Worldview. Click here.
John Stonestreet asks, "What does a Biblical Worldview really include?" For starters, it addresses like no other worldview both the profound goodness and evil residing in the world and the human heart. Click here.
