Science and the Christian

Science a personal view from St Helen’s Church on Vimeo.

St Helen’s Bishopsgate have produced a series of videos with a number of of Christians who are  scientists explaining how their faith makes sense of science.

Watch the video above for an overview or click here for a full list of all of the videos in the series.

Selling our kids’ inheritance

The newspapers have been full of comment this week on how there has been nothing to support families in the government mid-term review, something that the Christian Institute highlight here.

However the majority of UK Christians have not woke up to the fact that our secular establishment are actively seeking to ensure they do anything but support the family unit, as it’s a huge threat to their own agenda.

The latest move to decrease or remove child-benefits while at the same time increasing the childcare tax allowances to support working mothers by providing for nursery care, is a prime example of this in action.

The government has no interest in seeing parents raise their own children – they may end up becoming free-thinking enough to oppose the very worldview the secular government is frantically preaching.

  • Children who spend the majority of their time at home are likely to take on the worldview of their parents
  • Children who spend the majority of their time in state funded childcare are likely to take on the worldview of the state.

Far better to reward parents for indoctrinating their children from infancy with the message that the state is their god who provides for their every need, than allow godly parents to nurture young plants that will in time, become the Lord’s oak trees.

Free NIV Bible App

With most free electronic versions of the NIV you have to be connected to the internet to view them.  During the month of January, You Version are providing the NIV to download so that you can read it whilst offline.

It’s available for iPhone/ iPad / Android / Symbian / Kindle / Windows Phone / 8 and a few other platforms so it’s likely you’ll be able to run it on your device. You can go about doing that by clicking here.

 

Acting as though faith in Yahweh alone were an impractical policy for life

In words that might be addressed to so much of 21st century Western Evangelicalism, Ortlund Jr.comments on Old Testament Israel’s spiritual adultery as found in the book of Hosea,

The people failed to make meaningful connections between 
their theology, history and worship, on the one hand, and their 
real-life problems, on the other hand. They put God, his
 covenant, his power, his wisdom, into a limiting category of
 thought – they could not bring themselves really to believe the
 assurance of Deuteronomy 28:1-14 – while ‘the real world’ was 
another category altogether with its own rules and its own 
resources. They acted as though faith in Yahweh alone were an
 impracticable policy for life. As a result, they dishonoured him
 even as they thought they continued to honour him.

Moreover, unalloyed, classical Yahwism was losing its compelling power among the people. It was being redefined with fewer
 sharp edges and more open doors as a broadly inclusive
 religion, increasingly tolerant of elements of paganism.

(Ortlund Jr, Whoredom: God’s Unfaithful Wife in Biblical Theology, 48)