Education Defined The essence of education is dispelling ignorance, acquainting a learner with reality. However, because the nature of reality is a religious question, education can not help being driven by a particular worldview. Education (distinguished from training) is discipleship in a view of God, the world, and one self....
Six Dangers of Technology … (continued) 6. Reduced Relationships. Observation: Technology tends to draw you closer to those you are far away from and farther away from those you are close to. Illustration: A married couple might spend many evenings in the same room—she checking the Facebook pages...
Six Dangers of Technology … (continued) 2. Skimming vs. Reading. At best, Internet users skim text rather than read it. In fact, “skimming” is now the dominant metaphor for reading. Though words are a crucial part of the online experience, they bow before the gods of visual and audio...
How should Christians respond to the technological revolution occurring around us? How should a Christian view this? Technology is the study of the use of tools. Man has always used tools, as Genesis 4 describes. Neil Postman, in his book Technopoly describes three stages a society may go though: A tool-using...
Mass shootings are tragically becoming common, and the usual outcry is to place strict limits on who may own a gun. Does the Bible speak to the topic of self-defence, and owning or using weapons for self-defence? What is the Biblical Position on Self-Defence? Pacifism Suggests: Killing is always wrong...
Christians today are not simply needing guidance as to what to read, they need to be encouraged to read at all. What used to be regarded as a pleasure for times of leisure has now become regarded as a hard discipline to be undertaken when there is nothing good on...
Parallel to environmentalism, animal rights groups have called for animals to be afforded human rights, or called for vegetarianism for all. Darwinism/ Materialism Pantheism /Buddhism/ Hinduism/ Wicca/ Animism Though humans are different to animals by degrees, which can become a difference in kind. Evolution explains how small differences eventually...
The last 60 years have seen a revolution in man’s ability to control conception: to prevent it where it is not desired, or to produce it where it is. Preventing Conception Producing Conception Natural Methods Barrier Methods Hormonal Pills / IUDs Emergency Contraception Sterilisation Fertility treatments Intra-Uterine Fertilisation (Artificial Insemination)...
Music and Worship Worship music is not primarily offered to man for his enjoyment, though he is invited to worship the Lord with gladness. Thus, the One who hears all and understands all music, deserves our most skillful and excellent musical offerings. God is a unique Being, and there is...
Meaning and Music (continued) Judging meaning in music means we pay attention to something other than our own reactions to it. Music does not become good or bad based on our reactions (some of which are automatic and visceral). Meaning is never separable from form. We cannot change forms without...