He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female; and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his other and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’?”
-          Matthew 19:4, 5

More is at stake in the debate over the nature of marriage than many believers seem to understand.

The ultimate issue here is not whether  America shall recognize “gay marriage.” That may or may not happen. But whether or not it does, Christians need to make sure they see the larger implications of this debate.

And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him. But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him.”
-  Acts 23:20, 21

What did it take for Paul’s nephew to share this bit of information with the Roman tribune? Surely he was known among the Jews as being a relative of the Apostle. Would they not suspect that he might have had something to do with fouling up their wicked plans?

After making purification of sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high…
-        Hebrews 3:3

Tom Waits has a wonderful song called, “What’s He Building in There?” in which he muses over the doings of a mysterious neighbor and the strange lights and sounds that emanate from behind his closed doors.

It’s a song about many things – curiosity, fear, and even wonder. The song has a kind of comedic undercurrent and resolves into nothing except the repeated line, “What’s he building in there?”

“God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
-        Acts 2:36

Three lines are running through my brain this morning.

The first is from “Away in a Manger” – “the little Lord Jesus, asleep in the hay” – and reminds me that, even from their youngest years, Christians teach their children to know that Jesus is Lord.

The second is from a praise chorus, not particularly au courant, but probably still sung in certain quarters: “He is Lord, He is Lord, He is risen from the dead and He is Lord…” and so forth.

“Go stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”
-  Acts 5:20

The Apostles were looking like anything but men who were free in Christ to live and proclaim “the words of this Life.” After all, they were in jail. Their “religious freedom” had been abruptly cancelled, or, at least, so the religious leaders of Jerusalem supposed.

The aim of our charge is love…
-        1 Timothy 1:5

I think sometimes we make the Christian life more complicated than it really is.

That goes for Christian worldview as well. Christian worldview is really just Christian life, so whatever our charge from the Lord in the life to which He has called us, that’s the commission we must pursue in the area of Christian worldview as well.