What Can Johnny Appleseed Teach Us?: The Parable of the Soils from a Worldview Perspective – Part 1 – Tal Davis

For several years after my retirement from the North American Mission Board, along with my work with MarketFaith Ministries, I pastored a small church in Ellijay, Georgia. That area of northwest Georgia is well known for growing delicious apples. Before that time I did not know there are so many…
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Abortion and Progressive Evangelicals- What Do They Expect?

I don’t usually engage political issues in this blog. I prefer to address moral and theological principles. However, this week it was reported that a group of what we might term “progressive evangelical pro-life Christians” expressed their great disappointment with the current administration. An open letter was published Tuesday from…
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Christian Adoption Agencies are Being Bullied into Compromising Their Standards

An article this week in Christianity Today (CT Online 3/1/21) reports that one of the largest Christian adoption agencies in America has changed an important policy regarding placing children for adoption and foster care. Bethany Christian Services (BCS) has indicated that it will now place children in homes with homosexual…
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What’s Missing from the Supreme Court?

By now everyone knows that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, September 18th, at age 87. For several years she battled cancer, so her passing was not unexpected. Consequently, her decease now sets up what promises to be another knock-down drag-out fight in the United
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Latest Survey Shows Americans’ Attitudes Increasingly Differ From Bible

Look at the following statements. True or False: Do you agree or disagree that what they say is true?
  •  There is no absolute moral truth.
  • ·      The basis of truth are factors or sources other than God.
  • ·      Right and wrong is determined by factors other than the Bible.
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How to Organize Discipleship Training – Part 3 – A Biblical Worldview as a Foundation

Part 1 – http://www.marketfaith.org/2020/07/how-to-organize-discipleship-training-part-1-grasping-the-big-picture/ Part 2 – http://www.marketfaith.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=9373&action=edit A person’s worldview directly expresses the way they understand reality to be organized. In practical terms, this means that whatever people believe at a worldview level WILL BE expressed in their daily life. Think of it this way: Would you act in…
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