worldview

Many years ago, Chuck Colson described William Wilberforce as "biblical worldview in action."

Ho Feng Shan's life is an example of how, through history and across diverse eras, Christians courageously lived lives of restoration in incredibly difficult cultural moments. In his new book, 32 Christians Who Changed Their World, Colson Center Senior Fellow Dr. Glenn Sunshine tells the stories of faithful men and women, most of whom are unknown today, whose lives were used by God in extraordinary ways.

For people who subscribe to this narrative, perception quickly becomes reality. They do not attend our worship services or live by biblical morality as we understand it. And so, because our faith is viewed as irrelevant to their lives, it becomes so.

Abundance is something we all want more of. But the thing is, abundance is already all around us. Because God’s love, provision, and attention are never ever in short supply, we can have an abundance mindset, too. Jesus certainly lived this way and saw the world this way. But when we look at our schedules, bank accounts, news apps, and relationships, scarcity is so much easier to see.

So how can we become more like Jesus and see the abundance of this world as he did? Here are four ways how.

A new Gallup survey found that Americans are now ranking community activities, hobbies, recreational activities, money, friends, and health as “extremely or very important” priorities in their lives.

Countries with fewer baby boomers who believe in God are more likely to have more Gen Zers who do, according to a recent survey.

I won’t say that Barbie solves this universal problem or will make a clear-cut, biblical argument for or against complementarianism versus egalitarianism. But it provides enough striking examples to get conversations going–conversations I encourage you to have between the men and women in your life so you can learn from their experiences. I believe this conversation should start and end with empathy.

Now that you’re caught up on this week’s controversy du jour, I want to convince you that it doesn’t matter. When this controversy dies down, there will be another, and another, and another. The cycle never ends and never accomplishes anything.

In the parable of the sower, Jesus illustrated how the seed of God’s Word flourishes or perishes depending on the kind of ground it falls on. Some seeds fell on a path, and birds ate them. Some fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings. “Other seeds,” said Jesus, “fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away.”

That rocky soil group aptly describes the rapid rise and decline of evangelicals in America in recent decades. Recently, political scientist Ryan Burge, co-author of The Great Dechurching, explained how, between 1983 and 1993, the share of Americans who identified as evangelicals exploded. In fact, at their height in the early ’90s, nearly a third of Americans called themselves evangelical.   

Yesterday we discussed the rise in America of “reconstructed political, religious, and social institutions” that have normalized and legalized unbiblical immorality across society while stigmatizing and even criminalizing dissent from biblical Christians. As this secularist vision continues to dominate culture, it becomes incumbent on believers to find the necessary means to follow Jesus despite mounting pressure to deny him.