Rejected from the Land The Law of God and Public Policy: The Environment (7) God will not long abide abuse or misuse of His creation. “You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit ...
Conservation The Law of God and Public Policy: The Environment (6) Conserving creation allows us to love the generations yet to come. “If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or the eggs, you ...
Creation as Witness The Law of God and Public Policy: The Environment (5) It is the glory of God’s people to discover God’s glory. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. Proverbs 25:2 Speaking to a group of pagans ...
Honoring the Creation The Law of God and Public Policy: The Environment (4) All creatures, being God’s servants, must be treated with justice. “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.” Deuteronomy 25:4 God loves His creation—loves it so much that He sent His only Son to ...
The Purpose of Creation The Law of God and Public Policy: The Environment (3) The earth and its creatures are God’s servants in the divine economy. Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast. By ...
No Wanton Destruction The Law of God and Public Policy: The Environment (2) Creation is to be cared for, not exploited. “When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You ...
The Earth Is the Lord’s The Law of God and Public Policy: The Environment (1) We are stewards of God’s creatures. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. ...
The Lesson of the Cities of Refuge (2) The Law of God and Public Policy: Policies Regarding Life (14) In war it may be necessary to take the life of another human being. “But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait or used ...
The Lesson of the Cities of Refuge (1) The Law of God and Public Policy: Policies Regarding Life (13) More evidence of grace in the Law of God. “‘When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and ...
A Hint of Grace to Come The Law of God and Public Policy: Policies Regarding Life (12) The Law of God opens the way for the grace of God. “When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall ...