The Bible makes it clear that wisdom is obtained through fear of the Lord, but what is fear?
Biblical fear is defined as awe, respect, reverence, and terror. In essence, it is the humility to admit that He is God and we are not.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy…..
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. (Hebrews 1:3)
The book of nature continues to be a bestseller because God continues to read from its pages. He begins the day with an opening-line sunrise and concludes…..
In my last blog, I discussed how we could use the idea of the uniqueness of man as an evangelical bridge to our postmodern youth. We discovered that Millenials are obsessed with human uniqueness and make extraordinary efforts to preserve the right to be different. I pointed out that while we both embrace individuality, we differ on its source. Christians believe humans are special because…..
I have been making the case that our lofty apologetics needs to be brought back to earth because our young people tend to prefer arguments that tug on their heart strings rather than yank the wires of their neural networks. They generally believe God exists, but want to see His footprint in the sand, and not a forensic sketch…..
Postmodernism arose as a reaction to the modernist claims that absolute truth was found only through science and that the spiritual realm didn’t exist. Postmodernism responded by establishing personal experience as the yardstick of reality and adopting the new spirituality as the way to reclaim the transcendent. Our youth have embraced this worldview because they know life is more than natural laws and religious legalisms, randomized controlled experiments and canon law. They have become what Pew refers to as the, “nones,” a group…..
I think we fail to recognize just how significant the three simple words, “And God said,” truly are for a proper understanding of the world in which we live. God spoke, and His artistic, immaterial thought became a physical reality. There is no direction we can turn without encountering His divine discourse. God spoke, the heavens declared, and humans listened. The Bible is a remarkable book…..
Intensive care medicine heroically rides in on its white stallion to save the day but all too frequently is followed by the callous black horseman of death. The physician who loves the technological toys of neonatal medicine is now confronted with a puddle of toxic emotional mercury they don’t know how to clean up. If evolutionary theory is, “all…..