I just finished reading an article in a Higher Education on-line journal. It details how students complained about their professor’s opinions, the professor was fired, and many journalists have taken to writing about how crazy this man’s opinions were, yet they want to fight to protect his right to free speech, and his rights as [...]
Working at a University, not a year has gone by that a student has not followed the philosophy that anything natural is also inherently “good” and should not be questioned. If something feels natural, or appears to follow the course seen in “nature” then it is right and those feelings are justified as good. This [...]
Let’s define our term before we discuss it, ok? Levity: lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness; fickleness. Think long and hard now–is there any levity in your life? A time when you desire escape, a time when your thoughts or behavior reflect a lack of appropriateness, a time when [...]
I’ve been pondering a word I read in Titus 2:3 recently, “reverent.” In this culture, in this present day, do I and my peers know what it means to be reverent, do we care, and is it a part of our Christianity–or do we consider it outdated? Older women are told to be reverent in [...]
Paul once said that it was no longer he who lived, but Christ Jesus who lived in him; that the life he now led was lived by faith. Some of us through our years of maturing in the faith have been completely mistaken on what it means to live by faith. I have heard so [...]
Death to self includes purging your conscience, but first comes the realization that your conscience was constructed apart from the Holy Spirit. In Galatians Paul tells the church what it means to be crucified with Christ, and therefore crucified to the world (Galatians 2:20; Galatians 6:14). Upon redemption, the believer is given the ‘Spirit of [...]