“Bury the workmen” by Covie, featuring Lance Thompson
For some encouragement check out this new group – or maybe just new to me – singing about how no matter what the world might try, “the work will go on!”
Was Noah’s Flood only local?
Hugh Ross wants us to believe it was. He’s wrong and here’s why.
The narcissism of always thinking we face the greatest crisis ever
Every election is billed as the most important ever. This bill could be the most devastating ever. This Supreme Court ruling could be the most pivotal ever. This tech innovation could be harming our kids worse than ever before.
Sound familiar? I’m sure it does. And while Trevin Wax, in the linked article, called this narcissism, I still have a hard time concluding that every time I’ve heard the “most important ever” or “worst ever” take, it hasn’t actually been true quite a bit of the time (like the 1988 Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal across Canada).
But I will readily concede that while this greatest crisis ever line isn’t always hype, it certainly is overused. And it’s important to recognize that, as God’s people, to recognize too, that God is still protecting and preserving us, and, in that assurance, then to be able to proceed faithfully, and not panically lurch from one crisis to the next.
Nazis didn’t break German law, so how did they get tried?
On what basis did the Allies try their Nazi prisoners? After all, the Nazis didn’t break any German laws, so by what standard could a court of law hold them to account? Christians have an answer – the standard they violated is one that is above any that Man might implement. Some, as in this article, call it Natural Law, but make no mistake about the Authority behind this law – not natural but Supernatural.
Don’t blame capitalism for consumerism
“It is foregoing consumption that allows one to save and invest and thus accumulate capital.”
So what causes consumerism then? Part of it, most certainly, is our sinful hearts – consumerism is when we make things an idol. But government policy is also part of it. If you are choosing between investing or spending your money, then when government policy weakens the market, making investments riskier, that becomes an encouragement to spend rather than save.
Pro-choicers follow the science?
It turns out that no, pro-choicers don’t follow the science. But Christians need to understand all that’s going on in this video
We can, for the sake of argument briefly adopt our opponents’ worldview, so we can then drive it into the ditch. In this video, the pr0-lifer is going with the pro-choicer’s “pro-science” worldview to show how, when followed to its logical end, this takes the pro-choice adherents where he didn’t expect to go. To put this in biblical terms, our pro-life heroine here is tearing down false arguments and everything that sets itself up against God (2 Cor. 10:4-5).
We highlight their hypocrisy: “You say you are pro-science but you’re not. You’re just using that as a justification, and when it no longer props up abortion, then you don’t care about it anymore.”
But afterwards we mustn’t appeal to their fallen idol to prop up our own position. We aren’t against abortion because of “science” – we are against abortion because God creates life and gives us value (Gen. 1:26-27) and therefore only He has the right to take life.
If we appeal only to science – if that’s what we stand on – then what will we do when the godless decide to change their science textbooks? There are already sources all over the internet that deny life begins at conception. These statements are factually wrong, but many are masked in the veneer of “science.”
Christians need to tear down the world’s idols without then standing atop the same pedestal ourselves. We were created to glorify God, and it is only by standing with Him, and standing on His truth that we will ever find ourselves on solid ground, fulfilling our purpose.
