Radical secularists want your children—and they want them now!
They believe the task of raising your children is too important to be left to parents or grandparents; these “experts” are, after all, much more enlightened and will raise them for us. Their task, which they deem as “proper instruction,” is to bypass the parents and wedge their own progressive view of morality and culture between parents and their children. These radical secularists admit parents do have a role. That role is to take care of the physical needs of the child, but some activists want to …
Holy living in an Unholy World: How can we be holy in a sin-saturated world?
“I looked for the church and found it in the world, and I looked for the world and found it in the church.” So said hymn writer Horatius Bonar.
Those words resonate with me. We are living at a time when the distinction between the world and the church is blurred; we want to love God, but we are pulled into the orbit of worldly values and an array of temptations. And, quite frankly, we often don’t know where the lines should be drawn. When …
Suffering Is Universal: What will your response be?
I think it’s fair to say that millions of people have turned against God, retreating into atheism, because of events such as the Holocaust. And despite its horrors, other atrocities, equally as evil, have occurred since then, though perhaps on a smaller scale. The historian Toynbee is reportedly quoted as saying, “Blessed is the nation that has no history, for history is the record of war.” The evils have been terrifying, heart-wrenching, and persistent.
Let us also consider so-called natural evils such as hurricanes, tsunamis, and famines. Watching neglected children starving to …
Christmas—gifts, family, and yes, of course, Jesus!
We know the baby in the manger grew to become a man, died for our sins, was raised from the dead, and ascended into heaven. However, at Christmastime especially we hear it said, “Jesus came to redeem the whole world!” But as all of us know, the whole world is not redeemed. In fact, when speaking to the shepherds, the angels themselves affirmed “peace among those with whom he is pleased” (Luke 2:14). Not all people benefit from the coming of Christ; His gifts of …
