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28 Jun

Get Smart

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In the popular 1960’s television show, Get Smart, our hero, Maxwell Smart and his organization Control, were locked in a weekly battle with the evil organization, Kaos. While it lacked a certain philosophical gravitas, it still serves to remind us of the ongoing struggle we face every day of our lives. We also want to control the chaos in our world, and while it may be as simple as…..

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21 Jun

Farming The Wilderness

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I have been making the case that our lofty apologetics needs to be brought back to earth because our young people tend to prefer arguments that tug on their heart strings rather than yank the wires of their neural networks. They generally believe God exists, but want to see His footprint in the sand, and not a forensic sketch in…..

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14 Jun

Nature Versus Narnia

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Postmodernism arose as a reaction to the modernist claims that absolute truth was found only through science and that the spiritual realm didn’t exist. Postmodernism responded by establishing personal experience as the yardstick of reality and adopting the new spirituality as the way to reclaim the transcendent. Our youth have embraced this worldview because they know life is more than natural laws and religious legalisms, randomized controlled experiments and canon law. They have become what Pew refers to as the, “nones,” a group…..

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05 Jun

Faith Field Trip

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The Barna Group and Summit Ministries recently released a study that investigated the influence of various worldviews on Christianity. While we tend to think of atheism as the biggest threat, they found that postmodernism and the new spirituality have actually had a greater impact. As I mentioned in my last blog, Christianity has become overly reliant on a modernist, enlightenment apologetic and neglected the unique challenges…..

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