Bias in the news media is only going to grow more pronounced in the coming years. Rather than spending our time decrying it, we should learn how to spot it and how to learn from it. As followers of Jesus, understanding the bias of the world around us not only helps us better understand the news that we see each day, but it also helps us gain a better understanding of the people we are trying to reach.
The president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Yael Eckstein, who lives in Israel, recently reflected on the ongoing violence between Israel and Palestine.
Like Jesus, who confronted the wilderness temptations of Satan by reciting biblical truth (Matthew 4:1-11), we should know God’s word and use its wisdom to defeat our enemy and glorify our Father.
When asked how we can know that the current evolutionary narrative is true, scientist explainers quickly point to the fossil record and our nearest animal relatives, the great apes. However, as a recent study in the journal Science points out, the actual physical evidence for what the late philosopher Michael Stove has called “fables of evolution” is in scant supply.
Obeying God’s word when we don’t understand his ways is one of the great challenges of the Christian life and a significant obstacle to faith for many skeptics.
As a society, we guard what we perceive to be of great value. King Solomon knew something about guarding valuable things. After all, he was one of the wealthiest kings who ever lived. According to the biblical account in 1 Kings 10:27a, “The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones.” And yet, look at Solomon’s surprising advice: “Above all else, guard your heart.”
The 2020-2021 Wilberforce Award recipient, Bob Fu, is a champion for the image of God, tirelessly engaged in defending the right to life of so many of our brothers and sisters in China.
Of the nine million people who live in Israel, two million are Arab. Most Jews and Arabs in Israel have learned to live peaceably as neighbors since the State of Israel was founded in 1948. However, the country is now experiencing the worst internal Jewish-Arab conflicts since the last Intifada (“uprising”) in 2000. Here is how Christians can intercede biblically in these tragic days.
