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cludes a weekly conversation with leading Christian writers and thinkers on topics ranging from the sanctity of life to marriage, religious liberty, and the restoration of virtue and ethics to public life. Over at Breakpoint.org, Stonestreet is joined by other thoughtful Christian writers through columns and feature articles equipping believers to live and defend the Christian worldview. Check us out online for great worldview content and resources, including book reviews for teens and preteens, need-to-know news headlines and more.

Getting God Right A.W. Tozer said, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about ...
24/01/2025

Getting God Right

A.W. Tozer said, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” Not all beliefs are equally important, and not all ideas are equally consequential. What we think about God is as important and consequential as it gets.

Tozer’s books The Knowledge of the Holy and The Pursuit of God are in a line of essential reading about God. Others include J.I. Packer’s Knowing God, Chuck Colson’s Loving God and most recently, Thaddeus Williams’ book Revering God.

Williams, a professor at Biola University, wants believers to get God right. I asked him to describe why how we think about God is so very important.

“I commence every class I teach with the same two words: ‘Greetings theologians!’ Though there are film, business, science majors (and more) in the chairs, I greet all of them as theologians. It’s not a gimmick. I want every student to have a deep sense of something R.C. Sproul loved to say, ‘Everyone is a theologian.’

Of course, not everyone will sport a tweed coat with elbow patches or cite Augustine in Latin. But, however you earn a paycheck or whether you can say theanthropos ten times fast … if you seek to better understand your Maker, then you too are a theologian.

In fact, the issues we tend to think about as cultural or political issues—abortion, racism, religious freedom, transgender ideology, and so on—are, at the deepest level, theological issues. And whether we think true thoughts about God will have everything to do with whether we can see the issues of our day clearly or whether we’re blinded by the deceptions and propaganda of our age.

So, how are we doing theologically? Nearly a century ago, A.W. Pink lamented, ‘How different is the God of the Bible from the God of modern Christendom! ... The God of many a present‐day pulpit is an object of pity rather than awe‐inspiring reverence.’

With serious theology absent from so many pulpits, it is little wonder there is much confusion in the pews. 65% of evangelicals believe ‘everyone is born innocent,’ which if true, means we don’t need Christ as a Savior but only as a life coach to move from good to great. 43% of evangelicals agree that ‘Jesus was a great teacher, but [h]e was not God.’ But of course, if Jesus is not God, then He’s not infinite enough to pay sin’s infinite penalty, and we lose the best news in the universe. Two-thirds of parents of pre-teens in America identify as ‘Christian,’ yet only 2% believe a basic biblical worldview, with only one-quarter believing in objective moral truth, or that life is sacred.

So, calling all Christians: it’s time to be good theologians—homemaker theologians, mechanic theologians, office job theologians. The Church is in dire need of your humble service.

What goes into this sacred task? Five centuries ago, Martin Luther listed requirements of a theologian. In one of his famous Table Talks, the stout German Reformer highlighted the following: God’s grace; anfechtung, (a German word for dread when we realize just how utterly helpless we are without that grace); personal experiences with God in his Word and in a local flesh-and-blood community of fellow believers; sharing gospel truths with others; consistent, deep study of Scripture; and a passion for truth in all areas of study because, after all, all truth is God’s truth.

Two hundred years ago, former slave and the first ordained black minister in American history, Lemuel Haynes added that a theologian should be marked also by the love for Jesus, vigilance against the deception of our own hearts, and courage to tell the truth, even if unpopular.

If we were to tie the insights from Luther and Haynes into a single word, it would be ‘reverence.’ The Biblical word is yirah, which in Hebrew means to fear God, to be awestruck before Him, and its commanded over 300 times in the inspired text. Good theology (and therefore clear thinking about politics, culture, and everything else) begins with the pride-crushing recognition that God is God, and we are not. ... Great news indeed since God is far better at being God than we are!

A.W. Tozer was right. What we think about when we think about God is the most important thing about us. So, let’s take good theology seriously, thinking true thoughts about our awesome God, biblical thoughts about our speaking God, reverent thoughts about our great God. Our pulpits, our pews, and our truth-impoverished culture need it!”

Author and professor Thaddeus Williams is author of the new book Revering God, a contributing faculty member in the Colson Fellows program, and a featured speaker at this year’s Colson Center National Conference (May 30-June 1, 2025 in Louisville, KY). Revering God is now available.

Everybody Was Talking About Jesus Monday Night, even Scott Van Pelt As a fan of Duke basketball, I was pumped when the B...
23/01/2025

Everybody Was Talking About Jesus Monday Night, even Scott Van Pelt

As a fan of Duke basketball, I was pumped when the Blue Devils beat the University of Houston in last year’s Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. I was also pleased that cross-town rival University of North Carolina lost. As a Christian, however, I celebrated the outspoken witness of UNC coach Hubert Davis and Houston coach Kelvin Sampson after their respective losses.

Outspoken faith has also been part of the story line in college football this season. This is especially the case with Notre Dame and Ohio State, two teams who put together incredible runs of victories to advance to Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship game. Though I was rooting for the Irish to complete the comeback after a tough first half, it was not to be. Capping what must have been a very good day for J.D. Vance, Ohio State was just too much.

Though it’s not unusual for athletes and coaches to thank God after big games, faith in Christ was consistently and specifically credited for the culture of both programs. So much so in fact, that, ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt and Rece Davis made it a point of emphasis in their post-game analysis. As Davis said,

“We hear a lot of times people talk about their faith and people sort of dismiss it. These guys were sharing their faith and reaching out and baptizing guys on campus … not just football teammates. And it became something powerful, not because they thought it was going to be handed to them to win a game, but it changed their relationships. It changed selfishness and made it go away. … It didn’t guarantee they were going to win. And Notre Dame had a lot of that going on as well. We heard [Notre Dame coach] Marcus [Freeman] talk about that a lot this year … that it made guys selfless, and I think that’s the power in it. It’s not some magical thing … it helps you relate to your teammates differently.”

The quarterbacks from both sides confirmed this analysis. Ohio State’s Will Howard, accepting the Offensive Player of the Game, said, “First and foremost, I gotta give the glory and the praise to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” He then went on to talk all about his teammates and coaches, emphasizing the strong relationships that made this year so special.

Emotionally wrecked from the loss, Notre Dame’s Riley Leonard spent his press conference also describing how much he loved and respected his teammates. In fact, he carefully emphasized how impressive they were off the field, from his offensive line to the wideouts to the backfield. He then added,

“Us and Ohio State were the two teams who praised Jesus Christ the most, and I think we strengthened each other in our faith. … I’m happy to see Godly men come out on top no matter what the circumstance is. I’m happy to praise Jesus in the lowest of lows.”

In addition to the time given to the role faith played for both teams by players, coaches, and the media, this was the other unusual part of the post-game praise reports Monday night. Athletes and coaches often thank God for wins, but acknowledging God’s sovereignty and goodness after a tough loss is far rarer. Leonard’s words reminded me of what North Carolina coach Hubert Davis said after the tough loss to end their season back in March:

“There’s a reason for all seasons, and He’s the reason for all seasons. And I’m meaning Jesus. And those reasons are good, irregardless if it’s a sunny or cloudy day. All those reasons develop my character, refine my faith, and make me the person, and the husband, and the dad, and coach that I want to be.”

Within a Christian worldview, the rule and reign of Christ extends to all of reality, including areas of life sometimes dismissed as trivial and unimportant. Certainly, sports is given a place far beyond its due in this cultural moment. For many, it is an idol. However, the Biblical teaching about Christ as Lord over every aspect of human existence brings clarity to how we ought to think about things like sports. If the Lordship of the risen Christ is the defining truth about life and the world, then all human relationships are transformed. Most importantly, our relationship with God is made secure by the work of Christ on our behalf.

Also, our sense of value and worth is no longer dependent on our performance or how we measure up to the arbitrary categories of our time, but rather, who we are is grounded in the reality that Christ is restoring us into His image. Our relationship with others is, as Coach Freeman described, about being “selfless” and “putting others before yourself.” With those relationships properly ordered, our relationship with other things around us, including the mundane or seemingly trivial, can also be properly ordered.

Thus, I believe we can finally answer that annual question that plagues us ... does God really care who wins the Super Bowl (or the College Football Championship or March Madness)? The answer is yes, because He not only cares for those who win but also for those who lose.

More Unearthed Evidence of Early Christianity A few weeks ago, researchers in Germany announced that they had found the...
22/01/2025

More Unearthed Evidence of Early Christianity

A few weeks ago, researchers in Germany announced that they had found the earliest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. During excavations of a Roman cemetery in Frankfurt, a tiny, tightly wound silver scroll dating to the early 200s, was found under the chin of a skeleton. The scroll was found in a phylactery, a kind of amulet worn on a cord around the man’s neck.

This was an unusual thing to find in that part of the world. Amulets like it were more common in the Eastern Mediterranean, where they were used as protective charms against aches and pains, illness, infertility, or demons. This kind of superstition was common during time periods without the medical knowledge we have today. Also, injuries and illness were common, judging from the evidence found in skeletons.

Over 1800 years old, the amulet had folded and was creased, so it could not be unrolled without being destroyed. Instead, a high-resolution CT scan of the scroll was used to create a 3D model of the amulet which was then digitally “unrolled.” Inside was a Latin inscription, also unusual, since most were written in Greek.

The text was clearly Christian, referring twice to “Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” There was also a quote from Paul’s epistle to the Philippians, specifically that “every knee bows: those in heaven, those on earth and those under the earth, and every tongue confesses [Jesus Christ],” and the words “holy, holy, holy” from Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4. Prior to this find, the earliest known post-New Testament Christian usage of “holy, holy, holy” dated to the fourth century.

The dating of the amulet pushes the arrival of Christianity north of the Alps nearly a century, and places it at a time when being a Christian was a dangerous proposition. The persecutions of Christians were sporadic since Emperor Nero in AD 64. So, it is safe to assume this man was serious about his faith.

Another surprising thing about the amulet, especially when compared to others found in the Eastern Mediterranean, is the exclusive focus on Jesus. While it does acknowledge Saint Titus, it does not mention angels or other supernatural beings. This is different from other amulets from the period, and not just the pagan ones. For example, an amulet found in Bulgaria in 2023 and dated to roughly the same period as the Frankfurt one, includes invocations to the archangels Michael and Gabriel and to the “guardian” Christ. Scholars speculate that this may have been an attempt to disguise the owner’s Christian faith. Other amulets include Jewish and pagan elements alongside Christ, indicating a syncretistic approach to Christianity, but that is missing from the Frankfurt amulet.

This discovery upends what scholars thought they knew about the spread of Christianity. Within the Roman Empire, Christianity was strongest in the Greek east. Also, most of the early major Christian thinkers (except for Tertullian) came from east and wrote in Greek. Yet here, in a frontier town that within decades faced invading Germanic tribesman, is a committed, Latin-speaking Christian, whose faith is in Christ alone. The Christian faith presented by this amulet is of a purer kind than in comparable amulets in the Empires’ Christian heartland. And this Christ-follower was in a region decades earlier than scholars thought Christians were. In fact, along with the amulet, he was buried with an incense bowl. Thus, it is at least possible the unknown man was a priest, which means it is also possible that there was a Christian community in this area.

At the very least, the Gospel spread farther and faster than historians thought, and communities of Christians have existed who escaped the prying eyes of both governments and scholars.

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22/01/2025

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Conservatives Must Know What to Conserve Recently, in an article for the Institute for Family Studies, Patrick Brown hig...
21/01/2025

Conservatives Must Know What to Conserve

Recently, in an article for the Institute for Family Studies, Patrick Brown highlighted the notable decline of marriage and married parenthood among Republican voters. The GOP has long enjoyed larger support from married parents. However, in the most recent election, Brown writes,

“[T]here was essentially no political advantage in 2024 for Republicans in congressional districts with higher shares of births … to married parents. In fact, some of the Congressional districts with the highest share of births within marriage are wealthy Democratic strongholds: New York’s Upper West Side, the Boston suburbs, Northern Virginia, and Silicon Valley. Compare this to 2012, in which Republicans dramatically outperformed Democrats in counties where higher shares of babies were born to married couples. This suggests in years to come—if current trends persist—the GOP advantage with married parents may not be rock-solid.”

One reason for this shift is the Republican base has shifted from college-educated, upper-and-middle-class voters to more working-class voters without a college degree, a group in which marriage rates have cratered in recent decades. In 1990, over half of working-class American adults were married. By 2017, that number had dropped to 39%, prompting some to declare marriage a “luxury good.” By contrast, Brown estimates that, today, 67% of college graduates in their thirties are married.

Over the same period that working-class Americans grew ambivalent toward marriage, they trended Republican. The Wall Street Journal reported in November that those without a college degree shifted red by eight points in the last election. The result, Brown writes, is “a Republican party that has boosted its appeal in parts of the country where out-of-wedlock births are relatively higher, while losing some of its appeal to college-educated parents.”

This does not mean the political left is shifting more pro-family, or that its policies are good for married parents. Quite the opposite, in fact! As sociologist Brad Wilcox argued in his book, Get Married, progressive elites tend to “talk left but walk right.” Educated, affluent voters in blue regions promote s*xual “freedom” and “diverse” parenting arrangements but tend to wait until marriage to have kids and stay married.

On the other hand, the party known as the home for “family values” has drawn voters for whom family is more theory than reality. For many of these voters, being on the political right is not about being conservative, at least not socially conservative. The result is significant lack of clarity on the political right about what social conservatives hope to conserve.

Social conservatives must again make the case for the pre-political institutions designed by God that are worth conserving, and why. As Brad Wilcox wrote, “The science could not be clearer: On average, the children of married parents are more likely to experience happier, healthier and more successful lives.” Among innumerable benefits, marriage more than halves the likelihood children will grow up poor or end up in prison and doubles the likelihood that they will graduate college. Marriage also vastly cuts the odds of a child falling victim to or witnessing domestic abuse.

We may want to see America great, but it won’t happen if marriage rates continue to spiral and with broken homes the normal context in which the next generation is raised. At the heart of conservatism is the idea that there are mediating institutions, including churches and especially the family, that are more important than the state. These “little platoons” are vital to a healthy society, because they are society at the most fundamental level. As such, they contribute to the lives of citizens in ways that the government cannot.

This is why religious conservatives should be deeply concerned about the decline of marriage on the left as well as the right. As Brown concluded in his article, it’s time for some soul-searching in the movement, including “prioritizing pro-family efforts, from eliminating marriage penalties and expanding the Child Tax Credit, to offering a ‘Baby Bonus’ to new parents and more.”

For Christians, the most important political engagement will be in the years between elections. It will take more than voter registration drives and righteous anger at progressives to make America great. Only a full-scale effort to rebuild and reprioritize marriage, starting in our own communities, can accomplish that. Because if being “conservative” means anything, it means recognizing that who we are in our own houses is even more important than who is in the White House.

Inauguration as “Covenant Renewal”Inauguration Day is a day for which all Americans should thank God. Barring some drast...
20/01/2025

Inauguration as “Covenant Renewal”

Inauguration Day is a day for which all Americans should thank God. Barring some drastically unexpected event, the United States will once again peacefully transfer power from one faction to another. Compared to the way nations throughout history have changed leaders—by military coup, death, sabotage, and destruction—the American story is a gift of God’s grace, despite the inevitable protests.

In a 2016 video, the late, brilliant British Rabbi Jonathan Sacks called Inauguration Day “one of the great rituals of modern politics.” The inauguration speech by the incoming president is, he said, a covenant renewal. He did not mean that America is God’s country or a new Israel but, by echoing similar renewals in the Scriptures, each Inauguration Day recapitulates the promises of America’s national religion. There’s a retelling of our past, an acknowledgment of present problems, and a recommitment to live up to our promise in the future. Though not a religious replacement for or an equivalency to Christianity or Judaism, the day draws on themes and rituals found in the Bible.

Years ago, on the inauguration of a very different president, Chuck Colson meditated on the many religious aspects of this day, with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Here’s Colson:

“There’s a ceremony going on in Washington today that’s the stuff that nightmares are made of—that is if you belong to the ACLU. At noon, the Chief Justice of the United States will ask Barack Obama to place his hand on the Bible—the one used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861—and to swear allegiance to the Constitution. The oath will end with the words, ‘So help me God.’

The ceremony is a perfect example of why the separation of church and state is an elite fiction that bears little resemblance to how democracy really works.

Consider this: Religious activities like public prayers have been excluded from public school graduations and football games. And yet, prayer and the Bible are integral components of our most important democratic ritual: the peaceful transfer of power. Every four years our rulers engage in the very rituals that they deny to the rest of us.

What lies behind the inauguration’s blatant violation of the Supreme Court’s decisions regarding religion in public life?

Even after the Founders had established what they called a ‘new order for the ages,’ they still desired a ‘proper ceremony’—one that underscored the importance of the occasion.

Ironically, the Founders imitated the very order they’d just overthrown. Law professor David Smolin wrote that George Washington used the coronation of King George III as a guide to his own inauguration. This included kissing the Bible and adding the words, ‘So help me God’ after Washington repeated the oath of office.

Despite the efforts of both the courts and the elites to purge the public square of all religious influences, these ties to religion keep popping up in the most unlikely places. As Smolin writes, ‘a policy of acting neutral among religions, or between religion and non-religion … has never [been] successfully carried out.’

This history is what lies behind all the politically incorrect religiosity you’ll see during today’s inauguration. Americans are a religious people. And it’s only fitting that this quality be reflected in the ceremony that marks the orderly transfer of political power. Our prayers and oaths are an acknowledgment that, however imperfect, we are a ‘nation under God’—that we’re under His judgment and protection. They’re an attempt to connect the profane work of governance to a sacred, transcendent order.

Our leaders, whether they share our beliefs or not, still benefit from these quasi-religious rituals. The government of the United States seeks a kind of moral legitimacy, even as it upholds the so-called separation of church and state. Invoking God’s blessing and placing itself under His judgment, if only for a day, furthers that purpose.

Inauguration Day provides us with an opportunity to remind our neighbors that religion, especially Christianity, permeates our basic institutions. That’s why, despite the ACLU’s best efforts, religion keeps popping up in the strangest places — like in front of the Capitol on Inauguration Day.”

Let us remember on this Inauguration Day that our responsibilities as citizens of this nation and our allegiances to Christ and his Kingdom do not ultimately contradict one another.

The Post-Election, Pro-Choice Panic According to an Associated Press article from November, there was a significant “sur...
17/01/2025

The Post-Election, Pro-Choice Panic

According to an Associated Press article from November, there was a significant “surge” in demand for long-term birth control, sterilization, and chemical abortions following the election. One company saw a 966% spike in sales of “emergency contraception” and abortion pills in the three days after Donald Trump’s re-election. The demand for a “value pack” of one particular type of “morning after” pill increased by 7,000% in a week! Planned Parenthood also reported an explosion in demand for abortion pills, long-acting contraception like IUDs, and vasectomies.

The reaction was strange, really, considering that the Republican Party gutted their platform on abortion, and President-elect Trump repeatedly promised not to block access to abortion pills. Even the AP admitted that “it’s unclear what—if much—will be done regarding access to contraceptives of any kind during the second Trump administration.”

The most obvious reason for the fearmongering, stockpiling of pills, and scheduling of appointments is just politics. The Left regarded “reproductive healthcare” as their best and perhaps only winning issue, so Vice President Harris repeatedly threatened that Trump and Republicans would take away these “women’s rights” and push a national ban on abortion. After a decade of Handmaid’s Tale references from media and politicians, many Americans are convinced of an impending theocracy that will enslave women and force them into pregnancy. The Trump campaign obviously agreed that abortion was a losing issue for Republicans.

Still, many pro-abortion Americans are running and screaming right now, but it’s not clear from what. The pro-choice, prophylactic panic resembles a Proverb that says, “The wicked flee when no one pursues.” This is another way that the s*xual revolution has disconnected people from reality.

The other ways our bad ideas about s*x have divorced us from reality are many: separating s*x from procreation, redefining s*x as a merely recreational activity, centering s*x as the source of identity, freedom, and dignity, treating children as a commodity, and disconnecting parents from their obligations to their children. The list of consequences and victims of this full-on social experiment in denying reality goes on and on.

As Bethel McGrew concluded in a WORLD opinion piece back in November, the left-wing meltdowns about abortion revealed a “spiritual darkness far deeper than the political discourse of the day.” Rather, the reactions “reveal(ed) a generation unmoored—from family, from community, from all the old tools of sensemaking that used to ground a young American’s identity.”

In other words, for many, the panic wasn’t an act. Lacking the security and hope once provided by stable families, strong communities, and faith, they grasp onto “rights” for meaning and validation. If those “rights” are all one has, and if those “rights” come from Washington, then an election really can feel like the end of the world.

This is our mission field. These are our neighbors we are to love. This is part of the brokenness we are called to restore. America is filled with image-bearers at war with themselves. The separation of s*x and pregnancy both represents and worsens a deep cultural damage that has taken generations to inflict and will take generations to repair. Even if the government were interested in tackling such problems, it could not. The destruction of relationships and the fear of parenthood can only be healed by re-embracing and celebrating God’s good design. We have much work—and prayer—ahead of us.

The Earth is the Lord’s ... Including Our Money Perhaps the only upside of America’s (and Americans’) debt problems is t...
16/01/2025

The Earth is the Lord’s ... Including Our Money

Perhaps the only upside of America’s (and Americans’) debt problems is the many funny memes spawned by the financial precariousness. Currently, the national debt stands at over $36 trillion, more than $100,000 of debt for every person in the country. That’s on top of the debt personally incurred by 77% of American households, which is on average to the tune of about $65,000. At least a third of Americans have some form of credit card debt, arguably the most dangerous kind.

Personal debt, whether the result of poor financial decisions or causes beyond one’s control, can cause incredible stress on individuals and families. At a civilizational level, however, debt is an indicator of decline, a symptom of a destructive worldview in which immediate gratification is prioritized over and above long-term thinking. In his 1941 book The Crisis of Our Age, the great sociologist Pitirim Sorokin categorized cultures between two extremes: ideational or sensate. Ideational cultures are oriented around ideals, aspirational visions that govern and direct social life. Sensate cultures are oriented around immediate fulfillment, focused on the immediate gratification of physical desires.

Extreme levels of debt are signs that a culture or civilization has become sensate, seeking immediate gratification. Irresponsible spending habits and sacrificing financial security to acquire what is new and flashy are the primary ways that we succumb to a materialistic, consumeristic worldview, a vision of life that is built on the immediate and rejects anything ultimate. This is like the worldview that Paul described in 1 Corinthians 15, of those who denied the resurrection and said to themselves, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Jesus offered serious warnings about the relationship between image bearers and things, especially when He said, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). Looking for security or satisfaction in the frivolous is futile and leads to a frivolous heart. Only God is big enough to secure and satisfy the human heart. As St. Augustine famously wrote, “Thou hast made us for Thyself, O God, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee.”

In contrast to the prevailing messages of our sensate culture, money and what it can buy are means, not ends. They are tools to worship and serve. There may be nothing more counterculture than an understanding of money that aligns with who we are as image bearers and with our highest calling to love God above all else. From this biblical perspective, intentionally racking up debt is not only unwise, but it may also be unloving, an unnecessary burden put upon future generations. When used as God intended, our approach to wealth and what it can buy blesses God and others, not only in the present, but for years to come.

Recently, the Colson Center team worked through a Christian vision of wealth, saving, and finance. Navigating Your Finances God’s Way is a helpful introduction to rethinking what money and our relationship to it should be. This course on financial discipleship is produced by Compass, and it begins with the fundamental truth of a truly Christian worldview: Everything belongs to God. Learn more about Compass and the resources they have for various demographics at compassfinancialministry.org.

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