When we start to see that God’s basic purpose until the end of the millennium is restoration, and we take on His mind and heart for restoration, everything that is happening in the world and in our own lives begins to take on great clarity. In this way, we can see the ultimate goal of our maturity...

As we look at the ultimate purpose of God to restore the earth from all the consequences of the Fall and make it once again the paradise it was originally intended to be, we see this theme running throughout everything He is doing on the earth. We can also see it in all that He is doing in us...

Adam was God’s agent to rule over the earth. When man sinned against God, all that had been placed under man’s dominion suffered the consequences. Death entered the world and all living things on earth must suffer it. Through one man death entered the world and through one man, Jesus, death will be...

In a biblical worldview, everything begins and ends with God. This is His universe, and His will is going to be done on earth as it is in heaven. Therefore, the supreme devotion of those who serve God should be to know His will. God’s ultimate will is that His entire creation be in unity and...

A basic biblical worldview established in Scripture includes: 1) God created the world and mankind for a special relationship with Him. 2) Man became separated from God by sin. 3) God so loved mankind and the world that He made provision for our redemption and reconciliation through the atonement...

When we embrace the cross, we do so because of the conviction of our sin and the revelation that the cross is the only remedy. Only through the atonement of the cross can we be reconciled to God. Those who say that Christianity is an arrogant religion because it claims that Jesus is the only way to...

The only way to have a Christian worldview is to abide in Christ so that we see with His eyes, hear with His ears, and understand with His heart. As we are told in Ephesians 4:15: “ but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ.” This is the...

A biblical worldview begins with knowing God, and God is love. Our highest purpose as human beings is to love God above all else, which is the easiest thing for us to do because we were made for this. Since God is love, we cannot see Him or learn anything about Him without loving Him more. This...

The foundation of a biblical worldview is the first four words in The Bible —“In the beginning God….” That God is, and made all that is, is our foundational understanding. From this, all other truth springs. The first implication of this is that the world is the Lord’s, and we are His. He created...