Education: Foundations The Law of God and Public Policy God’s Word is the foundation for all education. “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over to possess ...
Creation: Rejection from the Land The Law of God and Public Policy We must not forfeit our stewardship of creation through disobedience. “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 you out.” Leviticus 20:22 The ...
Creation: Conserving Culture The Law of God and Public Policy Christians should be concerned about cultural conservation. “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 shall not take the mother with ...
Creation: Conservation The Law of God and Public Policy The Law encourages us to think in terms of conservation. “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 shall not take the ...
Creation: Begin Here The Law of God and Public Policy We must begin with ourselves in bringing out the glory of God in creation. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. Proverbs 25:2 Public policies—whether in the form of legislation or peer ...
Creation: A Witness to the Lord The Law of God and Public Policy God makes Himself known in creation. 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 in Lystra, the Apostle Paul commented in passing ...
Creation: Honor Creation The Law of God and Public Policy We must honor creation as God’s servant. “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 redeem it from sin and to reconcile it ...
Creation: God’s Purpose The Law of God and Public Policy God’s purposes for creation must be observed. 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 your appointment they stand this day, for all things ...
Creation: The Law on Our Hearts The Law of God and Public Policy Contemporary concern for creation and the Law on the heart. 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. ...
Creation: No Wanton Destruction The Law of God and Public Policy The Law forbids wanton destruction of creation. “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 may eat from them, ...