We call the core beliefs that have united Christians through the ages orthodoxy, or “right belief.” Understanding the faith, once entrusted for all, is critically important today, for we live in a time…when Christians and the civilization they helped to build are under assault.

Only a creative reason, or Logos, does justice to our experience of the world. Further, only a Logos that is both unimaginatively creative and loving accounts for our delight in the world. When we see the Logos as the source of creation and yet independent of it, when we reflect on the world’s beauty and our own freedom, the Logos quickly assumes the character of the personal God

“Jesus broke into society with a radical, transforming message. In His first sermon He announced that He had come to set the captives free, to preach the Gospel to the poor, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18). It was more than just the good news of salvation.
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The task of this generation – as it will be in every generation – is to understand Christianity as a complete view of the world and humankind’s place in it, that is, as the truth. If Christianity is not the truth, it is nothing, and our faith mere sentimentality.

When believers are revived, and our churches are renewed in mission and oneness, the world will see fruit to cause it to awaken to the Gospel.

We are known by our fruits (Matthew 7:16). But this is where it gets costly to believe, for true Christianity is countercultural. It means death to self, giving up self-control – and personal autonomy, as we know, is the thing postmodern thought prizes more than anything else. True faith means . . .

“Life’s value doesn’t depend upon where we are in time; whether we are young, middle aged, or old. We see all life, all of life and all of the time that God created for us, as a gift. The greatest time of our life, then, may occur at any point of our lives.