Who is Responsible for Education? … continued Some evidence exists in the Bible for community-based education. In New Testament times, higher education was available at a “house of study.” Such a school was attached to the Jerusalem Temple, and it was perhaps here that Jesus was found when twelve years...
Biblical Principles Relating to Education The Purpose of Education from a Christian Perspective Education has a strong spiritual component. It is not all about getting a good job and making safe choices in life. A God-honoring education will motivate the student to worship God with his heart, mind, soul and...
Modern Secular Educational Philosophy The great myth of education in the Western world is that it is possible to have a purely ‘secular’ education. Christians have typically bought this lie, thinking that secular education will give their children value-free, neutral ‘facts’ about the world, to which the parents can season...
Education Defined The essence of education is dispelling ignorance, acquainting a learner with reality. However, because the nature of reality is a religious question, education can not help being driven by a particular worldview. Education (distinguished from training) is discipleship in a view of God, the world, and one self....
Six Dangers of Technology … (continued) 6. Reduced Relationships. Observation: Technology tends to draw you closer to those you are far away from and farther away from those you are close to. Illustration: A married couple might spend many evenings in the same room—she checking the Facebook pages...
Six Dangers of Technology … (continued) 2. Skimming vs. Reading. At best, Internet users skim text rather than read it. In fact, “skimming” is now the dominant metaphor for reading. Though words are a crucial part of the online experience, they bow before the gods of visual and audio...
How should Christians respond to the technological revolution occurring around us? How should a Christian view this? Technology is the study of the use of tools. Man has always used tools, as Genesis 4 describes. Neil Postman, in his book Technopoly describes three stages a society may go though: A tool-using...
Mass shootings are tragically becoming common, and the usual outcry is to place strict limits on who may own a gun. Does the Bible speak to the topic of self-defence, and owning or using weapons for self-defence? What is the Biblical Position on Self-Defence? Pacifism Suggests: Killing is always wrong...
Christians today are not simply needing guidance as to what to read, they need to be encouraged to read at all. What used to be regarded as a pleasure for times of leisure has now become regarded as a hard discipline to be undertaken when there is nothing good on...
Parallel to environmentalism, animal rights groups have called for animals to be afforded human rights, or called for vegetarianism for all. Darwinism/ Materialism Pantheism /Buddhism/ Hinduism/ Wicca/ Animism Though humans are different to animals by degrees, which can become a difference in kind. Evolution explains how small differences eventually...