Chapter 6 of Deuteronomy covers the commands for the Israelites to learn and follow God's instructions. It also covers their relationship with God. Chapter 7 discusses the procedures for holy war and how the Israelites should execute it, as well as their contractual relationship with God.
This document discusses various perspectives on global warming, including scientific theories, historical climate data, and biblical views. It examines the claims of prominent scientists on both sides of the debate. Key topics analyzed include the Medieval Warm Period, temperature reconstruction methods, natural variability in climate, and Christian responses to environmental issues. The document advocates a biblical stewardship approach to nature guided by revelation.
The document discusses secular legal hostility toward biblical faith and homeschooling. It summarizes views that argue government should limit what religious parents teach their homeschooled children and that parental control over education comes from the state, not the other way around. The document also presents opposing views that argue people should be able to bow to their creator and that distinctions between good and evil are meant to be temporary in creation according to a Christian perspective.
The document discusses key concepts regarding labor from a biblical perspective, including:
- Labor creates value and reveals character like God's creative work.
- The Sabbatical principle recognizes labor as necessary but not sufficient.
- Envy results from being angry at God over perceived differences in rewards.
- Theft tries to bypass God's design linking labor and reward.
- The family is the normative unit for organizing labor.
- The ultimate goal of labor is not material wealth but life lived in God's presence.
This document provides 10 tips for brands using WeChat official accounts to build audiences. The tips include making headlines count, segmenting audiences, increasing relevance of content, being more compelling, providing incentives and rewards, using more visual storytelling, linking to other social media, inviting guest editors, turning questions into content, and creating content on location. It emphasizes the importance of high-quality, relevant, visual content that engages audiences and drives action. It also recommends tools like CMS/CRM systems to better segment and target audiences with customized content.
It’s not enough that you drink water every day. You have to make sure it’s the adequate amount and it’s absolutely safe and clean. To be guaranteed about your everyday drinking water, it would be a good idea buy water filter here in Singapore or anywhere you might be in the world.
Chapter 6 of Deuteronomy covers the commands for the Israelites to learn and follow God's instructions. It also covers their relationship with God. Chapter 7 discusses the procedures for holy war and how the Israelites should execute it, as well as their contractual relationship with God.
This document discusses various perspectives on global warming, including scientific theories, historical climate data, and biblical views. It examines the claims of prominent scientists on both sides of the debate. Key topics analyzed include the Medieval Warm Period, temperature reconstruction methods, natural variability in climate, and Christian responses to environmental issues. The document advocates a biblical stewardship approach to nature guided by revelation.
The document discusses secular legal hostility toward biblical faith and homeschooling. It summarizes views that argue government should limit what religious parents teach their homeschooled children and that parental control over education comes from the state, not the other way around. The document also presents opposing views that argue people should be able to bow to their creator and that distinctions between good and evil are meant to be temporary in creation according to a Christian perspective.
The document discusses key concepts regarding labor from a biblical perspective, including:
- Labor creates value and reveals character like God's creative work.
- The Sabbatical principle recognizes labor as necessary but not sufficient.
- Envy results from being angry at God over perceived differences in rewards.
- Theft tries to bypass God's design linking labor and reward.
- The family is the normative unit for organizing labor.
- The ultimate goal of labor is not material wealth but life lived in God's presence.
This document provides 10 tips for brands using WeChat official accounts to build audiences. The tips include making headlines count, segmenting audiences, increasing relevance of content, being more compelling, providing incentives and rewards, using more visual storytelling, linking to other social media, inviting guest editors, turning questions into content, and creating content on location. It emphasizes the importance of high-quality, relevant, visual content that engages audiences and drives action. It also recommends tools like CMS/CRM systems to better segment and target audiences with customized content.
It’s not enough that you drink water every day. You have to make sure it’s the adequate amount and it’s absolutely safe and clean. To be guaranteed about your everyday drinking water, it would be a good idea buy water filter here in Singapore or anywhere you might be in the world.
Colleges Denying the Only Real Source of Truth – GodJeff Phipps
This document describes the author's experiences in college courses that have challenged their religious beliefs. It discusses classes on topics like same-sex marriage that went against the author's views. It also describes philosophy club meetings where the existence of absolute morality and God were debated. The author feels some course content and teachings can be considered blasphemous. They feel their faith is being discredited, their intelligence questioned, and their dissent ignored.
Keeping Faithful to Our Lord in an Increasingly Hostile CultureJeff Phipps
7-part Labor Day Conference series at North Stonington Bible Church on September 3-4, 2016
Audio: http://www.bibleframework.com/lessons/keeping-faithful-hostile-culture/
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Using Romans 12:1-2 as the theme, this 7-part Labor Day series deals with how to avoid being “conformed to this age” by having our minds “transformed.” Paul’s warning certainly applies to Bible-believing Christians living in our increasingly hostile culture—a culture using the secular public schools, the media, and government leadership to forcefully, continually and ubiquitously mold U.S. population into suppressing God in every important area of life.
As this new series moves from creation to the conquest, I point to specific cultural agendas that by substituting fictional counter-notions seek to suppress what God shows about Himself in each event. I also cite by number the exact Power Point slide I am using so you can refer to the accompanying slide as you listen to the audio. Included in this series is the complete handout for note-taking. I hope you will feel less intimidated when you see the flimsy foundations under these fictional substitutes for Biblical revelation. May you be encouraged to see the corresponding strength of the Word of God at each point—strength you can rely upon to remain faithful to our Lord!
Man has dominion over nature through empirical knowledge that corresponds to nature's design, but scientific knowledge is limited to observable spatial and temporal domains. Special assumptions beyond observation are needed to understand the unobservable past and future. Three future events for Israel include a 900-year outworking of blessing and cursing, eventual perception of Israel's unique historic role, and national repentance.
God presented the Israelites with a linear and progressive theory of history, allowing them to extend the covenant over centuries rather than follow the cyclical view of time common in other ancient societies. By giving them faith in the future through the covenant, the Israelites gained a long-term orientation and an "upper-class mentality" that could provide a way out of poverty, with neither linear time nor the concept of growth found elsewhere.
This document outlines 3 fundamental questions about reality, knowledge, and ethics. It asks what reality and existence are truly about, how we can recognize truth, and if justice exists and how we can identify it, representing metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions respectively.
This document discusses the moral and spiritual principles that govern nations. It states that while these principles always apply, the consequences for violating them are often delayed. This creates a lag between actions and their effects that can obscure their connection. The document uses the example of ancient Israel, arguing that God's moral governance over it as his mediatorial kingdom was both declared at Sinai and demonstrated through immediate divine sanctions recorded in their history.
This document provides a table listing major religious and philosophical traditions that emerged around 600 BCE, including Zoroastrianism in Persia, Jainism and Buddhism in India, Taoism and Confucianism in China, and the development of Upanishads and Vedanta monism in India. It also includes two quotes discussing early Greek philosophers' assumption that the universe is intelligible and orderly, and how Darwin's theory of evolution was seen as liberating because it replaced the idea of an arbitrary personal God.
This document provides a table listing major religious and philosophical traditions that emerged around 600 BCE, including Zoroastrianism in Persia, Jainism and Buddhism in India, Taoism and Confucianism in China, and the development of Upanishads and Vedanta monism in India. It also includes two quotes discussing early Greek philosophers' assumption that the universe is intelligible and ordered, and how Darwin's theory of evolution was seen as liberating because it replaced the idea of an arbitrary personal God.
The document contrasts God's design for society with a society that rejects God. God's design protects life, supports strong families and productive work, and values truth and allegiance to God. A society rejecting God jeopardizes life, has weak families and wasted work, and values deceit and self-interest over truth and God.
This document makes three main points:
1) Only the Hebrews made covenants with their gods or God according to scholar W.F. Albright.
2) Scholar Yehezkel Kaufmann notes that paganism does not have the continuous succession of prophets that were seen in Israelite history.
3) God's design for society protects life, strong families and labor, and values integrity and allegiance to God, whereas alternatives jeopardize these things and value self over God.
The document outlines the spring and fall cycles of celebrations in ancient Israel, the fulfillments they represented, and relationships to tithing. The spring cycle included Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Pentecost. The fall cycle included Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Feast of Tabernacles. Israelites were required to give three tithes, while Ger and Nokree were exempted from some or all.
This document discusses the importance of stable and clear rules in society for promoting prosperity and productivity. It argues that unclear or changing rules encourage people to spend more time trying to manipulate rules for their own benefit rather than engaging in productive activities. When rules are not stable or just, it puts society at risk. The document advocates for a society defined by stable, legitimate, and just rules in order to encourage entrepreneurship and productive engagement.
This document discusses factors that contribute to prosperity and certainty in law and society. It argues that strong, functioning families and respect for marriage, life, labor and property support prosperity, while weak families, disrespect for these institutions undermine prosperity and legal certainty. It also discusses how stable, just rules that encourage entrepreneurship are important for productivity, while unstable, changing rules that incentivize lobbying undermine these.
This document discusses factors that contribute to prosperity and certainty in law and society. It argues that strong, functioning families and respect for marriage, life, labor and property support prosperity, while weak families, disrespect for these institutions undermine prosperity and legal certainty. It also discusses how stable, just rules that encourage entrepreneurship are important for productivity, while unstable, changing rules that incentivize lobbying undermine productivity.
The document outlines various commandments and their rationales. It lists false prophets and violating God's word and a prophet's authority as the first commandment. The second lists misusing animals as violating their life-giving purpose and unique design. The third lists perpetual labor and debt as violating faith in God's provision and designed freedom from debt-forced labor. The fourth lists taking another's property as violating God's ownership boundary and honor of the owner. It also applies these rationales to modern socialism.
Colleges Denying the Only Real Source of Truth – GodJeff Phipps
This document describes the author's experiences in college courses that have challenged their religious beliefs. It discusses classes on topics like same-sex marriage that went against the author's views. It also describes philosophy club meetings where the existence of absolute morality and God were debated. The author feels some course content and teachings can be considered blasphemous. They feel their faith is being discredited, their intelligence questioned, and their dissent ignored.
Keeping Faithful to Our Lord in an Increasingly Hostile CultureJeff Phipps
7-part Labor Day Conference series at North Stonington Bible Church on September 3-4, 2016
Audio: http://www.bibleframework.com/lessons/keeping-faithful-hostile-culture/
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Using Romans 12:1-2 as the theme, this 7-part Labor Day series deals with how to avoid being “conformed to this age” by having our minds “transformed.” Paul’s warning certainly applies to Bible-believing Christians living in our increasingly hostile culture—a culture using the secular public schools, the media, and government leadership to forcefully, continually and ubiquitously mold U.S. population into suppressing God in every important area of life.
As this new series moves from creation to the conquest, I point to specific cultural agendas that by substituting fictional counter-notions seek to suppress what God shows about Himself in each event. I also cite by number the exact Power Point slide I am using so you can refer to the accompanying slide as you listen to the audio. Included in this series is the complete handout for note-taking. I hope you will feel less intimidated when you see the flimsy foundations under these fictional substitutes for Biblical revelation. May you be encouraged to see the corresponding strength of the Word of God at each point—strength you can rely upon to remain faithful to our Lord!
Man has dominion over nature through empirical knowledge that corresponds to nature's design, but scientific knowledge is limited to observable spatial and temporal domains. Special assumptions beyond observation are needed to understand the unobservable past and future. Three future events for Israel include a 900-year outworking of blessing and cursing, eventual perception of Israel's unique historic role, and national repentance.
God presented the Israelites with a linear and progressive theory of history, allowing them to extend the covenant over centuries rather than follow the cyclical view of time common in other ancient societies. By giving them faith in the future through the covenant, the Israelites gained a long-term orientation and an "upper-class mentality" that could provide a way out of poverty, with neither linear time nor the concept of growth found elsewhere.
This document outlines 3 fundamental questions about reality, knowledge, and ethics. It asks what reality and existence are truly about, how we can recognize truth, and if justice exists and how we can identify it, representing metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical questions respectively.
This document discusses the moral and spiritual principles that govern nations. It states that while these principles always apply, the consequences for violating them are often delayed. This creates a lag between actions and their effects that can obscure their connection. The document uses the example of ancient Israel, arguing that God's moral governance over it as his mediatorial kingdom was both declared at Sinai and demonstrated through immediate divine sanctions recorded in their history.
This document provides a table listing major religious and philosophical traditions that emerged around 600 BCE, including Zoroastrianism in Persia, Jainism and Buddhism in India, Taoism and Confucianism in China, and the development of Upanishads and Vedanta monism in India. It also includes two quotes discussing early Greek philosophers' assumption that the universe is intelligible and orderly, and how Darwin's theory of evolution was seen as liberating because it replaced the idea of an arbitrary personal God.
This document provides a table listing major religious and philosophical traditions that emerged around 600 BCE, including Zoroastrianism in Persia, Jainism and Buddhism in India, Taoism and Confucianism in China, and the development of Upanishads and Vedanta monism in India. It also includes two quotes discussing early Greek philosophers' assumption that the universe is intelligible and ordered, and how Darwin's theory of evolution was seen as liberating because it replaced the idea of an arbitrary personal God.
The document contrasts God's design for society with a society that rejects God. God's design protects life, supports strong families and productive work, and values truth and allegiance to God. A society rejecting God jeopardizes life, has weak families and wasted work, and values deceit and self-interest over truth and God.
This document makes three main points:
1) Only the Hebrews made covenants with their gods or God according to scholar W.F. Albright.
2) Scholar Yehezkel Kaufmann notes that paganism does not have the continuous succession of prophets that were seen in Israelite history.
3) God's design for society protects life, strong families and labor, and values integrity and allegiance to God, whereas alternatives jeopardize these things and value self over God.
The document outlines the spring and fall cycles of celebrations in ancient Israel, the fulfillments they represented, and relationships to tithing. The spring cycle included Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Pentecost. The fall cycle included Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Feast of Tabernacles. Israelites were required to give three tithes, while Ger and Nokree were exempted from some or all.
This document discusses the importance of stable and clear rules in society for promoting prosperity and productivity. It argues that unclear or changing rules encourage people to spend more time trying to manipulate rules for their own benefit rather than engaging in productive activities. When rules are not stable or just, it puts society at risk. The document advocates for a society defined by stable, legitimate, and just rules in order to encourage entrepreneurship and productive engagement.
This document discusses factors that contribute to prosperity and certainty in law and society. It argues that strong, functioning families and respect for marriage, life, labor and property support prosperity, while weak families, disrespect for these institutions undermine prosperity and legal certainty. It also discusses how stable, just rules that encourage entrepreneurship are important for productivity, while unstable, changing rules that incentivize lobbying undermine these.
This document discusses factors that contribute to prosperity and certainty in law and society. It argues that strong, functioning families and respect for marriage, life, labor and property support prosperity, while weak families, disrespect for these institutions undermine prosperity and legal certainty. It also discusses how stable, just rules that encourage entrepreneurship are important for productivity, while unstable, changing rules that incentivize lobbying undermine productivity.
The document outlines various commandments and their rationales. It lists false prophets and violating God's word and a prophet's authority as the first commandment. The second lists misusing animals as violating their life-giving purpose and unique design. The third lists perpetual labor and debt as violating faith in God's provision and designed freedom from debt-forced labor. The fourth lists taking another's property as violating God's ownership boundary and honor of the owner. It also applies these rationales to modern socialism.