It seems like a lifetime ago now, when I was helping my friend Bill Jack design the cover for his (then) latest VHS video: Jack Theist Meets Doctor Secular. It was a great teaching video and it deserved a great cover and, if I do say so myself, it turned out really well. But the cover art isn’t the point, the point is that even back then (this was late 1980’s, maybe early 1990’s) Bill was onto the game that many in American culture were playing. The game was to turn America into a secular society.
One of the things we learn from Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well is that Jesus considers conversations about God to be second to nothing else. The story is found in John chapter four. Jesus is alone sitting near a well at around noon. The disciples have been sent into town to buy supplies and food. A Samaritan woman comes to the well at the hottest part of the day --
As this site’s purpose is to teach people to think Biblically, a couple news stories out of Florida caught our attention. The first is a fifth-grade teacher at a public school attempting to keep a student in her class from reading his Bible during free time, and the second is a high school stopping the distribution of Bibles – and any other religious books – from being distributed on their campus. If you are a student or a parent of a student, this special report is a must-read.
Former President Jimmy Carter makes a bold declaration about faith and politics, but is it biblical?