Christ in Post-Christian Culture
I heard Him call my nameand I responded.“Come out on to the water,”He said, “and walk to Me.”I stepped out of the boat,onto the raging sea.Looking into His face, I startedwalking to Him. Suddenly,a loud crack of thunderbroke my gazeand I noticed the crashingof the waves and felt the gale.It began to rain harder.I could …
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AS BELIEVERS AND TRUE followers of Christ, we enter into a new life. We begin to build a Christian worldview. Jesus said, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:31-32). He also said, "I am the light …
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IT IS DIFFICULT TO image being clothed in the righteousness of God. Exactly how does that happen? How can we possibly be worthy enough and pure enough? Lauren Daigle opens her song You Say with these lyrics: "I keep fighting the voices in my mind that say I'm not enough" (1). This was my dilemma. …
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"The problem of leading a Christian life in a non-Christian society is now very present to us... And as for the Christian who is not conscious of his dilemma—and he is in the majority—he is becoming more and more de-Christianized by all sorts of unconscious pressure: paganism holds all the most valuable advertising space." —T.S. …
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Written by Steven Barto, B.S., Psy. CURSE GOD AND DIE. Withhold your praise and adoration, for He has assailed you without reason. You did nothing wrong. Are you not righteous? Do you not seek His face daily? Have you not repented, turning from your wicked ways? Did you lie today? No! Did you steal from …
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Written by Steven Barto, B.S., Psych. Dan Egeler writes in the Forward to J.P. Moreland's book Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology, “As the ideas that constitute scientism have become more pervasive in our culture, the Western world has turned increasingly secular and the centers of culture (the universities, the media …
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WHAT IS SCIENCE? How do we determine if it leads to truth? Whose truth does it represent? Stripped down, science essentially means "the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment." Is true science an elitist or Gnostic pursuit? In …
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The following is a summary of my most recent class in pursuit of my Master's in Theology at Colorado Christian University. Written by Steven Barto, B.S. Psy. AS WE FOCUS ON the lessons covered to date in my initial theology class, we become familiar with how to understand faith as an object onto itself and …
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"For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective …
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The following is a summary of my most recent class in pursuit of my Master's in Theology at Colorado Christian University. Written by Steven Barto, B.S. Psy. WE HAVE LEARNED SO far that theology is an attempt by faith to understand itself, its object, and its place in today's world. Trevor Hart (1995) calls this …
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