[Biblical] Reformation

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Christian Ethics and the New Media: Introduction and Media Defined

“Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” (Colossians 4:5-6)

A primary, driving force behind any Christian’s ethic is going to be [...]

The New Media presents the Christian with many interesting ethical questions. The prevalence of social networks, blogs, micro-blogs, web videos, emails and video chats attest to the fact that the present world is a thoroughly technological one. Information and the gathering of information rule the land. Communication in many mediums is key. In living through [...]

A Pharisee, A Tax Collector and Lifeless, Damning Religiosity (cont.) The Tax Collector, on the other hand, agreed with the Pharisee’s assessment of him. He knew that he did not have the righteousness of the Pharisee. He knew that he was an extortioner, that he was unjust and that he was adulterous. He was a tax collector [...]

Religiosity devoid of Christ-enlivened spirituality always and without fail leads to damnation. This is a sobering lesson of the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. Jesus made no secret of His detestation of the teachings and theology of the Pharisees. When He was not teaching doctrines that ran contrary to the Pharisees (enraging them) [...]

Hello everyone.  My name is Andrew and I was homeschooled. It is true.  For 10 years, through high school, I walked in those proud ranks. And what a mighty force we were.  Standing against the foes of cultural liberalism, the Democratic Party and the Public Educational System, we were a fell enemy to all things [...]

Strange Virtues – Ethics in a Multicultural World. By Bernard T. Adeney, InterVarsity Press Academic, 1995. 281 pages. Softback. Ethics, both in study and in practice, is a non-trivial exercise. In many ways it is where the rubber meets the proverbial road, that place where religion, philosophy and human interactions intersect (sometimes violently) as people try [...]

Over the last 21 months of my daughter’s young existence I have learned just how much like her I truly am. And in learning about how much like my daughter I am, I have realized with fresh vibrancy just how much I am not like God the Father. Faith is completely reliant upon me and my [...]

Martin Luther once famously said “Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” The writer of the classic hymn “ A Mighty Fortress is Our God ”, Luther understood much of the power and beauty of music. Throughout the history of God’s people, music has been a profound [...]

As Christians and Followers of Jesus we are people of The Word.  The Word redeems us and The Word saves us.  The Word gives us relationship with the Father and enables us to have intimacy with the Spirit.  Our humble, broken praise to Jesus, The Word made flesh, is the cry of the Redeemed, the [...]