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We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.
Nancy Pearcey
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Nancy Pearcey
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
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Nancy Randolph Pearcey
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'Biblical worldview'. The term means literally a 'view of the world', a biblically informed perspective on all of reality. A worldview is like a mental map that tells you how to navigate the world effectively. It is the imprint of God's objective truth on our inner life.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.
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I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.
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The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.
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To use biblical language, those who exchange the glory of God for something in creation will also exchange the image of God for something in creation - and because it is something less than God, it always leads to a lower view of humanity.
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Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.
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Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.
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As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and discipline, inspired by a sacrificial love for Christ and a burning desire to build up His body, the Church. Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.
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In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
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Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.
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