Articles - Worldview

Faith and Aesthetics. Truth and Beauty. Christianity and the Arts. How do they relate rightly?

With God’s word as a guide artists in the areas of music, poetry, sculpture, painting, and every other area can think rightly about their goals and gifts from a biblical perspective. 

We often assume that the real issue is what kind of people homosexuals would have to be in order to hear our message and receive its truth. While this is an important consideration, I am convinced that the more urgent challenge for the church is to clarify our own self-identity and our understanding of the gospel. What kind of people must we be, if we are to address the challenge of homosexual marriage with faithfulness and Christian love?

(an excerpt from work by Dr. Al Mohler)

On Sunday we’re pretty gospel centered. We sing about the gospel, we hear a message about the gospel, we discuss spiritual issues with a friend. But when we walk into the office Monday morning the gospel is shoved out of our minds by meetings and projects and tasks.

So what does the gospel have to say to us as we walk in the office doors on Monday morning?

Everyone has a religious worldview--even famous atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. The only distinction between worldviews is whether the object of worship is God the Creator, or this world, the creation. The Bible makes the radical assertion that it is necessary to know and fear God before arriving at any true conclusions about yourself and the world.

We live in a world in which injustice is all around us. Injustice that can seem a far cry from the mercy of Jesus. Yet, the gospel has something to say to those that have suffered injustice, those that do injustice, and those that see injustice. Neither injustice nor the resulting wounds have the last word. There is healing available. There is reparation for the victim. But it can only be experienced by freshly appropriating the good news, clinging to the cross rather than to our injury.

What are practical ways you can work for God’s glory from 9 to 5? And how can you tell what your calling is in the first place? Justin Taylor continues his thoughts from part one of his article on a biblical perspective of work. 

Have you ever seen a TGIM (Thank God It’s Monday) bumper sticker? I haven’t.

As Americans—and Christians usually aren’t much different—we spend many years and thousands of dollars getting an education, all to prepare us to get a job. Then once we get a job, we spend many years and thousands of more dollars awaiting the soonest time that we can retire! In the meantime—we live…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Al Mohler’s message and its implications on Christians relating to culture: How do Christians relate to culture? How should they think about it?

To get help with thinking about this I went to my friend Nathan Sasser. Nathan is one of those rare people that walks around with a huge library of knowledge packed into his head (he holds an M.…

My apologetics should have started with an apology. Sometimes you get revelations like this sitting in a coffeeshop arguing with your friends.

I love apologetics, mostly because I love arguing, so when I heard that an apologist of another faith was coming to town, I couldn’t pass it up. Two of my apologetics loving friends, Bobby and Tim, came along too.

For the past two hours…

In this part of the interview we learn that when the Woodsman is on a roll he’s hard to keep up with.

Woodsman: I’ve been arguing that, according to Romans 1:18-25, wrong views of God are not merely innocent mistakes or a result of ignorance, but a willful rejection of the true God. Sinful human beings exchange the truth about God for a lie and worship and serve…

Our interview with the theologian intern outdoorsman continues.

Na: Let’s talk about the issue of “relevance” and whether Christians should care about what is going on in the culture. Should the Christian worldview shift according to pop culture?

W: Some aspects of the way we communicate the Christian worldview have to change as our culture changes or as we bring the gospel to a foreign culture.…