We live in a world that places a high value on success. Transition However, worldly success does not satisfy. I want us to see the difference and the benefits of a biblical worldview of success. The Secular Worldview of Success The world’s standard for success Who determines whether you are a success or not? Yourself […]
A child dies at birth. A family’s house burns down. A tsunami wipes out an entire village. A work accident cripples a Christian husband/father. A loved one gets cancer and dies a slow, painful death. During hard times, you lose your job. Why does God allow bad things to happen? Very likely, we have all […]
During our study of the Biblical worldview of God, we established that man is moral (i.e., man has an innate sense of right and wrong). Such morality must come from a moral Being who is the absolute authority. That Being must be God. While God created Adam and Eve innocent, He also gave them a […]
As Christians, we need to have a biblical worldview of God, of the Bible’s truthfulness, of the Bible’s sufficiency, and of life. These are foundational to today’s topic, a biblical worldview of origins. The evolutionary theory that all things began billions of years ago, and slowly evolved into all the complexity that we find in […]
What is life? __ Oxford Dictionary, Life is “the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, states NASA’s operational definition of life as “a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution”. The National Library of Medicine […]
Last week we examined the veracity of the Bible. We established that it is truthful and trustworthy. The Bible is a reliable collection of historical, instructional, and prophetical documents, inspired by God, written by eyewitnesses or from eyewitness accounts, during the lifetime of eyewitnesses, and confirmed by fulfilled prophecies, archaeology, and thousands of ancient manuscripts. […]
If someone questions you about creation, abortion, morals, or another issue, would you base what you believe on the Bible? If so, why do you believe the Bible is true? Can you defend your belief? Turn with me to 2 Peter 1:16-21. Peter said that the Bible is a “more sure word of prophecy,” than […]
Why do scores of young people who attended church as children turn away from God when they leave home? Why are many Christians not sure what they think about origins, absolutes, morality, abortion, euthanasia, divorce, and gender issues? We all have some sort of worldview that governs our thinking, but what we really need is […]