This article is Part One of two segments, which we’ll conclude in the next issue, D.V. In this one we’ll talk about our value as human beings and point out how different views perceive it. Next...
What Gives a Human Value?
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Times of Restoration
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Faith for the Wandering, Help for the Needy
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of...
Worldviews: Metanarratives
To get started, let’s have a clear definition of what we mean by “metanarrative.” I will be taking my definition, and much of the following information from Understanding the Times by Jeff Myers. He...
Avenues of Grace
After graduating last May, I stayed on at Fairwood for a few weeks to help incoming students transition in September, and since then I’ve been living in Florida at Quail Hollow Chapel. It is a joy...
Worldviews: An Overview
What is a Worldview? At the outset it’s vital to realize that each of us has a worldview. And each of us is deeply affected by that worldview. As one person put it, “It’s less about what worldview...
Character Development
It happens, whether in literature or in life Sometimes reading is a slog. This may seem like an odd statement from someone who majored in English and talks often of books, but I find it true. I...
Tough as a Tardigrade
Near the top of the tree of life—alongside the vertebrates, the mollusks, and the rest of the animal kingdom—is a mysterious phylum called Tardigrada. It contains the tardigrades, also known as...
Silken Steel
Job 8:14, describing the man who forgets God, says, “His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web.” The implication is that a spider’s web is fragile. To anyone who has swatted away a...
God’s Solution for Needy People
Sometimes we can look at an issue or a problem, and the scriptural solution seems obvious. But at other times things can appear more complicated. What I want to bring to our attention for prayer...
Comfort and Security
In the book of Matthew we read the story of two blind men who cried out to Jesus as He passed by. This is what happened: “Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I should do...
On Suffering and Bible Reading
Some time ago while reading my Bible, it struck me that this is exactly what we each need to be doing to stay on top: reading our Bibles every single day, even when we don’t feel like it. Naturally...
A Glorious Prospect: Part 2
Click here for part 1. “And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having seven plagues, which are the last, for in them is finished the wrath of God. And I saw as it were a...