Editor’s note: This post is part of a series featuring outstanding excerpts from student papers at the BibleMesh Institute, which offers affordable online training for local churches, schools, and ministries. The author’s name has been withheld for privacy and security purposes. She serves as a missionary in Southeast Asia. Even though the Bible never uses …
The contemporary culture wars tearing at America’s social fabric, Steven Smith argues in Pagans and Christians in the City, are less about conservative and liberal values or Christianity versus secular visions of social order. Rather, they amount to a standoff of competing forms of religiosity hundreds of years in the making. In his book, not …
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Ambrose, bishop of Milan, is one of the most important figures in fourth-century Church history. The spiritual father of Augustine, Ambrose became one of the most beloved bishops in the history of the Church and one of the four doctors of Western Christianity.[1] Throughout his episcopacy Ambrose cared deeply about the poor and challenged Christians to show …
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John knew God was calling him to pursue theological education. But he also knew God wanted him to remain in his job as an emergency medical technician in Pennsylvania. That’s where the Carolina College of Biblical Studies (CCBS) came in. By enrolling in CCBS’s online program, John was able to complete both an associate and …
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The 1990s video series Ben & Eddie, which teaches children to trust God in troubled times, has been rereleased online. The series tells the story of an orphaned puppy in New York City named Eddie who has built up an emotional wall to keep from getting hurt again. But after he is befriended by a …
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Proverbs 1:7a (ESV) Though the German philosopher Immanuel Kant was no Christian, he was right on the mark when he said that as “supreme being” God “is an ideal without a flaw, a concept which completes and crowns the whole of human knowledge.” Even a skeptic like Kant had …