“The Bible teaches that human beings were created not merely as rational or political creatures, but as worshiping creatures. We were made in the image of God and designed to know Him, love Him, and live under His gracious rule. Worship is not merely something we do. It’s woven into who we are.” - Breakpoint
AI and Everyday: What Are Some Practical Frameworks for Christians?
“In our conversation, Michael and Keith offer…. warn against using AI as a relational substitute, reflect on the difference between toil and truly human labor, and argue that we should never outsource to machines what God made us to need other people for.” - TGC podcast and transcript
Mental Health Problem or Sin Problem? Wait—Can’t It Be Both?
Problems in our behavior can be both mental health problems and “sin problems.” Part of the confusion on the topic of mental health among conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists is the assumption that a life problem has to be one or the other.
Is It Mental Health or a Spiritual Problem?
“This text teaches the sufficiency of the scripture to answer our spiritual problems. And let’s make sure that we understand that our emotional problems are also spiritual issues.” - P&D
Leisure Doesn’t Make Us Happy
“Summertime and the living is easy. Vacations…. Wouldn’t it be great to always have leisure time like this? Not having to work. Devoting oneself to constant entertainment. Wouldn’t that be finally reaching the goal in our pursuit of happiness? No, actually.” - Veith
Junking the Myth of Human/Chimp Similarity—Casey Luskin
‘Earlier comparisons overstated similarity due to methodological choices…. Luskin notes that in any case percentage similarity alone cannot prove common ancestry, since similarities could also be explained by ‘common design.’” - Discovery.org
C. S. Lewis, the New Atheists, and the Failure to Disprove God with Alister McGrath
Former atheist “McGrath sees how much desire determines what we believe about the universe. He says, ‘The human desire for unaccountability leads to the metaphysical conclusion that there should not be a God.’” - TGC
The Human Heart and Unbelief: A Biblical Perspective
“Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Sanhedrin together, and were saying, ‘What are we doing? For this man is doing many signs. If we let Him go on like this, all will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.’” (John 11:45–48, LSB)
Can Christians Believe in Ghosts?
“Gavin Ortlund explores whether Christians can believe in ghosts, offering a biblical perspective that challenges pop-culture ideas while taking the supernatural seriously.” - TruthUnites
What Transhumanism’s Hopes Reveal About Our Hearts
“The transhumanist vision, then, entails that prior to our death, our patterns will be uploaded to a computer. Then we’ll exist for some time as digital code before our patterns are downloaded into new, better bodies. The parallels to Christian eschatology are striking.” - TGC