Since March of this year I've seen ministry opportunities close and others open. I believe the Lord is moving me back to finishing a seminary degree I started in 1989 at RTS. The culture has steadily degenerated into further and further Spiritual decline and this has affected our Christian faith substantially. We are thinking more and more in line with the world instead of the Bible. We need a modern-day reformation in truth so as to understand the truth of Scripture.
Instead of debating the issues I am hoping to move onward and upward toward a degree and an opportunity for another ministry after I retire from my current employment. It will be more like a redeployment instead of a retirement. Many years ago I also started writing a paper that I now hope to complete and use for a master's thesis. It will be something about truth and the truth of God. In our high-tech and secularistic society we can hardly even understand objective truth and how this relates to our faith and sanctification.
The news media frames the arguments of the culture wars along the lines of "anti-abortion" and "homophobic" language, instead of "pro-life" and "pro-morality." A century ago there was no question about these social issues because morality was understood from the Bible. Today there's lots of work to do to help people throughout the culture and the church to understand unchanging truth and the truth of Scripture. There's lots of work to do to help people understand the veracity of the Bible through a truth hermeneutic instead of a contemporary worldview. So, it's onward and upward.
Hebrews 4:12 declares, "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." The Bible is the living word of God and through its truth, we can move onward and upward, and discover life that is truly life indeed.
Instead of debating the issues I am hoping to move onward and upward toward a degree and an opportunity for another ministry after I retire from my current employment. It will be more like a redeployment instead of a retirement. Many years ago I also started writing a paper that I now hope to complete and use for a master's thesis. It will be something about truth and the truth of God. In our high-tech and secularistic society we can hardly even understand objective truth and how this relates to our faith and sanctification.
The news media frames the arguments of the culture wars along the lines of "anti-abortion" and "homophobic" language, instead of "pro-life" and "pro-morality." A century ago there was no question about these social issues because morality was understood from the Bible. Today there's lots of work to do to help people throughout the culture and the church to understand unchanging truth and the truth of Scripture. There's lots of work to do to help people understand the veracity of the Bible through a truth hermeneutic instead of a contemporary worldview. So, it's onward and upward.
Hebrews 4:12 declares, "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." The Bible is the living word of God and through its truth, we can move onward and upward, and discover life that is truly life indeed.
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