Christian parents must come to grips with the ways that the culture mystifies its beliefs as commonsense truths. Young people daily spend hours on social media where immersive waves of stories, testimonies, videos, commercials, and music convey worldview of secular modernity.
Your life is not a series of random events. Your family background, education, and life experiences—even the most painful ones—all equip you to do some work that no one else can do (Eph 2.10).
You and I are unavoidably and irreducibly hope-based creatures. We are controlled not how we live now, but what we think will happen later. Christian hope has to do with the ultimate future, not the immediate.
I'm pretty sure Americans haven't thought out the ramifications of this study. The percentage of religious nones worldwide is shrinking. The world is getting more religious and will have a huge impact on how we see society and each other. Get ready. https://t.co/wYDX24Be4j
How amazing to see the Christmas Star through a telescope tonight! Saturn and Jupiter (plus 3 of Jupiter’s moons). The heavens declare the glory of God. #Psalm19
LONG THREAD: Here is a simplified generalization of American Christianity adapted from a Mark Noll paper. Every positive advance in evangelical history has been accompanied by unfortunate side effects.
(1) Martin Luther proclaimed enduring evangelical principles 1/19
Biblical justice does not “split the difference” or create a Middle Way or posit a moral equivalence between Left and Right. The Bible “diagonalizes” reductionistic secular alternatives. For example, the gospel is not a middle way between legalism and anti-nomianism. 1/5