Biblical Christian Worldview

In 1863 then President Abraham Lincoln was finally persuaded to declare a national Thanksgiving holiday ( more details ). His wife and many others had been pressuring him for some time to set aside a day to celebrate America’s accomplishments and as a distraction from the divisiveness created by a raging Civil War. Below is a full transcript of Lincoln’s speech that began a tradition still celebra...

Over the last few weeks, my wife and I have had the opportunity to travel through multiple countries, including Iceland, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Germany. It has been amazing to see the sights and experience a slice of such a broad range of cultures and climates.  Through it all, however, we have been struck with an overarching and unshakable sadness on the lostness of mankind.  The probl...

Every year Spotify publishes a list of the 10 most popular Christmas songs on the playlists of their worldwide subscribers. Last year’s list is below and presents a snapshot, both of our culture and its view of the Christmas season (more details ). We are not, as a nation, celebrating the birth of our Savior and Lord, as the angel or star of Bethlehem looks down from the top of the Christmas tree...

Summary and Conclusions Homeschooling, and particularly Christian homeschooling, is growing rapidly in America as parents have become more and more dissatisfied with the deteriorating caliber of our public schools. For Randy Weingarten to ask the question why her public schools are suffering an exodus only serves to emphasize the lack of situational awareness, much less demonstrating a willingness...

This is just a brief post offering five principles in evaluating the pros and cons of daily decision making.  Stepping through the five points above provides confidence that our decision is in His will (Proverbs 3:5-6). As such, we need to praise Him regardless of the outcome (1 Thes. 5:18).  "Let us know what you think."

A Biblical Perspective on the War in Israel   This post is not intended to be a defense or attempt at rationalizing Israel’s current press into Gaza. Whether, from a human perspective, one believes Israel is defending or being the aggressor as it flattens Palestinian lands because of Hamas’ barbarism is discussed on an hourly basis by social media pundits and channel surfing between MSNBC, Al Jaze...

According to research compiled by Brad Wilcox, a University of Virginia professor, "Marriage tops income, education, and sex in reports of happiness...What we see in the research is that both men and women who are married are almost twice as likely to be happy compared to their fellow Americans who are not married," ( Marriage ). In recent years there has been a counter-trend (lower divo...

There is a strain of Biblical Christians who are understandably frustrated with how our culture has turned against them (us). Rather than responding with patience, grace, and love, they respond to verbal challenges with an equal portion of dogmatic and divisive responses. This goes well beyond issues such as abortion and sexuality.  The point is that what is most important is to attempt to bring t...

The reality is that born-again Biblical Christians remain sinners after salvation. The process of sanctification is never completed on this side of the grave. Paul states in Romans 7:14-25, that he continues to do wrong, and it frustrates him greatly (as it should). However, this reality does not give the Christian an excuse to continue bad behavior, nor can we rationalize away our sin.  However,...

Biblical Christians are called by God to conduct themselves in two, sometimes contradictory ways, all at the same time.  Conclusion Christians are called to love mankind and to love God. Ultimately, the Lord has chosen to put us in a place of potential conflict with those who hold opposing views. Part of the faith we all share is that we, as Christians, acknowledge that God knows what He is doing...

Like so many other words in the English language, the word “deconstruction” means different things to different people.  Summary Deconstruction has as its primary objective the reconciliation of one’s personal views with their changing religious beliefs. As one becomes more comfortable rejecting God’s word, deconstruction begins to take on different forms and degrees of disconnection from a tradit...

How many Christians today have used bad church governance as an excuse for rejecting the entire, God ordained, institution of Sunday morning church attendance (Heb. 10:24-25)?  A Practical Solution Rather than sitting at home watching TV with your family on Sunday mornings while feeling guilty that you are not receiving true spiritual meat (Heb. 5:11-14), find a good church plug in as a congregant...

As a regular Christian church attender, there can be the impression that when someone says they have had a “bad experience” with their past church, it was likely that either a member called them out for a sin they didn’t want to hear about, or snubbed them in some other way. Or perhaps the music was not to their liking, or the Pastor did not smile at them when they neglected to attend last Wednesd...

Our nation is polarized on many levels. One aspect can be found within the Christian church. The continued deterioration in attendance ( see post ) over the past 30 years has, as we all know, leaped in its impact following the pandemic. As church leaders see both a financial and spiritual crisis looming, many have chosen polar opposite approaches as a solution. On one side are the pastors attempti...

The June issue of AMA’s “Journal of Ethics” offered a strong defense for transgender biological men to “consolidate their identities” with the ability to have children. Though the article states that there have been no documented successful transplants to date, the procedure is seen to be reasonable under their Hippocratic Oath. The article further postulates that government funds should be made a...

If humanity was rooted in a supernaturally accepted view of morality, then a clean separation between church and state would seem appropriate. The framers of the Constitution desired boundaries to protect their religious beliefs from government intrusion ( Church/State ). Of course today, the loudest voices are focused the other way around, desiring to isolate the government from the supposed tyra...

I recently reviewed an article, written by someone who referred to himself as a "Jesus follower, getting back to my faith". Surprisingly, he choose to use John 10:28-29 as Scriptural proof-text, supporting a rejection of the church.  haps even more significantly we need to pass our theology through the lens of the whole context of Scripture and be discerning readers when confronted with...

All who believe God exists tend to focus on His love and forgiveness. Some choose to ignore the Bible as they clamor to keep up with society’s definition of right and wrong. Others, Biblical Christians, stand for Biblical teachings on law and order, abortion, homosexuality, etc. Both groups correctly agree that Jesus preached on loving God and our neighbor as the ideal. Both groups desire and beli...

A reader offered the thought that, “Revelation assumes a strict dichotomy between good people and bad people, with no people in between.” I offered the view that the dichotomy he is referring to is represented throughout the Bible, not just in its last book. In fact, the “strict dichotomy between good and bad people” is the basis of Biblical Christianity beginning with Lucifer in Heaven, through s...

The pandemic impacted the church, as it did all social interaction. It forced the faithful to disconnect from intimate fellowship, teaching, and accountability with fellow Christians and God Himself. It accelerated “deconstructionism”, the establishment of an anemic form of Christianity. It offered a pathway and a rationalization to form new, bad habits on Sunday mornings, underpinning a departure...

Who is God God is all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere, sovereign, and the creator of all things. We are His children, made in His image but woefully lacking in the attributes just mentioned. One of the greatest fallacies of mankind is the statement, “there is no God”. To make that claim, one would have to be all-knowing, and who on this earth could make that claim?  "Let us know what you th...

When Jesus offers the command to love our neighbor as ourselves, He is not only asking us to be kind to others, He is also reminding us of our selfishness.  Mark 12:30-31 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself .’ There is no other commandment gre...

A reader offered the thought that, “Revelation assumes a strict dichotomy between good people and bad people, with no people in between.” I offered the view that the dichotomy he is referring to is represented throughout the Bible, not just in its last book. In fact, the “strict dichotomy between good and bad people” is the basis of Biblical Christianity beginning with Lucifer in Heaven, through s...

The Bible presents concepts that might seem to contradict themselves. Those who reject God’s Word enjoy quoting what would seem to be confusing and conflicting passages as a basis for man’s hand in the writing of the Scriptures. On the surface, the subject of “fear’ is one of those theological constructs.  At times, God seems to challenge mankind that we should not be fearful of anything. At other...

I recently published a short-form post playing on the words “woke” and “wake” with a desire to open minds beyond the human challenges we face here on earth. To look beyond the natural, which has a clear endpoint at death, toward the supernatural, which is eternal.  My play on words (woke and wake) was intended to speak more to the importance of a relationship with God (being awake) than a myopic f...