Christians tend to think of truth as something we are commanded to reflect in our speech. The Bible supports that understanding. But John’s gospel goes further and links truth to God’s very nature. It says that Jesus is not only the “Word...
I know, I know . . . Modern “with-it” people don’t believe that Satan exists, let alone has any influence on our lives. But let’s pretend he does, just as a mental exercise. This kind of exercise won’t lower our blood pressure or reduce our body...
Civilizations are said to decline from within by losing their commitment to the value structures that raised them to prominence. How far our western civilization has declined may be debatable but there is no question that some of its key structures...
I recently read a description of troubling social problems, in particular increasing violence and the decline of moral standards. It included this description: People “contemptuously rejecting temperance as unmanliness . . . insolence [as] breeding...