Saint vs. State: Choosing a School for Your Child

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Guest: Harold Naylor, co-founder, Discover Christian Schools

If God has given you children, you’re sure to be confronted with the question of how and where to educate them.  Should you pay to send them to a private Christian school where a biblical worldview will be woven into coursework by Christian teachers?  Should you send them to a state school down the street for “free” (i.e. paid for by your taxes) where their peers and teachers will most likely not have a like-minded Christian worldview?  Or should you home school Read more

Must Evangelicals Dirty Their Hands In Politics – Part 2

[Continued from last week. If you missed Part 1, you can read it here.]

Suddenly, politics didn’t seem so “this worldly” to me any more. I started to make the heavenly connections and began to see how politics was really an important means to an end – God’s end – in this case, the protection of innocent human life.

I thought, “What were Christians doing leading up to that awful Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973?” Someone had obviously been asleep at the switch. As Edmund Burke rightly observed, “All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” Now the damage of Roe v. Wade had to be undone. Sure, prayer would be needed and changed hearts would be nice; that’s where the gospel comes in. But, ultimately, it would take political action to accomplish the task. Read more

Must Evangelicals Dirty Their Hands in Politics? – Part 1

“I’m the Devil, and I approved this message.”

That’s often what evangelical Christians hear at the end of a political ad on TV or radio. For us, voting for “the lesser of two evils” is more than a hyperbolic metaphor. We take it literally. We know that all political candidates are, at their core, inherently evil (just like we are, and just like the Bible says), and our duty as good Christian citizens is fairly straightforward: simply vote for the candidates with the fewest sins in their public record!

Ok, there’s more to it than that… Read more

Socialism: What is it, Has it Come to America, and What Does it Mean for Christians?

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The U.S. Senate voted this week on a $700 billion government bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the guarantors of about half of mortgages in this country. In September, the government bailed out AIG, the 18th largest company in the world, at a cost of $85 billion.

The dictionary definition of socialism is “A social system in which the means of producing and distributing goods are owned collectively and political power is exercised by the whole community.” Read more

Financial Meltdown: What Went Wrong from a Christian Perspective?

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GUEST: Dan Celia, The Regency Foundation

We are currently experiencing what some say is the worst financial crisis since the 1930′s. The largest guarantor of mortgages in America, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were in such financial trouble that the U.S. government chose to bail them out by giving them a $200 billion loan. Days later, AIG, a large insurance company entered the same death spiral resulting in the government again stepping in to bail them out with an $85 billion loan. Read more