Resources by Topic: Culture and Worldview

The question is not whether believers ever need counseling or should seek it, but the assumptions and nature of that counseling. Many evangelicals routinely embrace psychological beliefs and counseling practices that warrant much closer biblical scrutiny.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. 

Today, November 10, 1994, the outcome has been declared official. The state of Oregon became the first jurisdiction in the history of the human race to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

The following are notes and overhead transparencies developed by Randy Alcorn and used in his Contemporary Social Ethics class.

This article was written before Ballot Measure 16 passed in Oregon in 1995.

This is the course syllabus for Contemporary Social Ethics. 

Character is what you are in the dark, when no one but God is looking.

I used this article in a course I taught at Multnomah Bible College—Soc 111, Contemporary Social Ethics.

A recent “Primetime Live” program covered public schools whose health clinics are now surgically inserting Norplant beneath the skin of teenage girls. 

We confess that we are sometimes weary of living in a world where right is called wrong and wrong is called right.

I was on the east coast speaking at one of the finest Christian camps in the country. There in the bookstore, surrounded by great books by J. I. Packer, John Stott and others, was a book called, Selling Yourself on You. 

In the evangelical churches of America, many people who do not know the meaning of “substitutionary atonement,” “sanctification,” “holiness” and “depravity” are becoming intimately acquainted with the meaning of “codependency,” “enabler,” “dysfunction” and “abuse.”

I submitted the following opinion piece to the Gresham Outlook in August of 1993. It wasn’t printed (no excerpts either). Because it reflects trends not just in my area but around the country, I’m including it here.

A stubble-faced, leather-skinned vagrant approaches me and asks, “Can you spare some change?” It’s nothing new, but the last few years the faces have been getting younger, the requests more frequent and my responses less certain.