November 4, 2025
Ending Your Search … For Significance (Psalm 8)
Your search for significance will never be completely realized here on earth unless it is realized in Jesus Christ. You can never earn what God wants to give you.
Articles for tag: Human Dignity
November 4, 2025
Wake Up!
This is the fifth in a series of weekly articles based on Christ’s letters to the seven churches in the book of Revelation. This week’s church is Sardis.
January 3, 2019
Abortion: A Philosophical and Biblical Perspective
Why a Quietistic Approach Is Biblically Insufficient By Andrew Kaake Abortion is the intentional killing of a human being before birth, usually in extremely violent fashion. It is a sin that harms mothers, fathers, and children. This month marks 46 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in all 50 states. Though there is a clear biblical and philosophical basis for opposing abortion, most Christians (at best) passively fight abortion through voting, and many (at worst) ignore the testimony of God’s biblical and natural revelation that abortion
February 1, 2017
Insider or Outsider?
By Jim Tune In the book How Jesus Saves the World From Us: 12 Antidotes to Toxic Christianity, Morgan Guyton includes a provocative chapter with the title, “Insiders, Not Outsiders: How We Take Sides in Conflict.” In it he refers to something known as the Valladolid debate. I had not heard of it. It seems that in the decades following Christopher Columbus”s discovery of the Americas, the conquistadors and invading Spanish colonizers had been ruthless in their domination of the native peoples, enslaving, displacing, and slaughtering tens of thousands. Troubling reports made their way back to King Charles V, who called
April 15, 2012
Why Should Christians Care About Bioethics?
By Robert C. Kurka and Nathan Babcock Christians are concerned about life, health, and death. Christians are called to understand and experience life, health, and death in the context of the lordship of Jesus Christ and their discipleship to him. That”s why Christians should care about bioethics. Dean Leuking once described a scene of congregational worship, variations of which are played out every Sunday in every Christian congregation: It is the Sabbath. People are gathering for worship. A family files into the sanctuary. They are much at home there, but this time it is different. The mother is absent. She
September 27, 2010
Lesson for Oct. 3, 2010: God”s Majesty and Human Dignity (Psalm 8)
This week”s treatment of the International Sunday School Lesson (for October 3) is written by Dave Butts who serves as president of Harvest Prayer Ministries in Terre Haute, Indiana. _________________________________________________________ God’s Majesty and Human Dignity ( Psalm 8 ) By Dave Butts How much do we really know about God? How can we learn more of who God really is? God certainly has revealed some of his nature in his Word. A careful examination of the life of Jesus shows us even more. For the Lord said if we have seen him, we have seen the Father. Psalm 8 gives us
May 20, 2007
Professor Jack
By Joshua Graves Several of my friends (as in 100-plus) from both my church and college decided to be a part of a “love feast” for the poor and homeless persons who live in and around Cass Park in downtown Detroit. Cass Corridor is a notorious section of Detroit known for rampant prostitution, drugs, and destitution. The people who live there swear the police have given up on the place. The men and women who call it “home” welcomed us into their space with love, acceptance, and hospitality. Cass Park is within a stone”s throw of mighty Ford Field and
