Culture as Educator The Law of God and Public Policy: Education (5) All culture educates, thus all culture must be devoted to God. “You shall write [these words] on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:9 Every aspect of life in ancient Israel was intended to reflect the goodness and ...
Educational Responsibility (2) The Law of God and Public Policy: Education (4) Churches and governments must contribute to the education of the young. “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD ...
Educational Responsibility (1) The Law of God and Public Policy: Education (3) Responsibility for education is local, beginning with the family. “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 ...
The Purpose of Education The Law of God and Public Policy: Education (2) Education is primarily moral and spiritual in nature, not economical and vocational. “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 ...
Educational Foundations The Law of God and Public Policy: Education (1) Foundational to all true education is the Law of God. “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 ...
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 ...