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Does It Matter Which “Truth” I Believe?

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This week finds us kicking off a brand-new teaching series called Confident in the Face of Tough Questions. For the next few weeks, we are going to be tackling some of the toughest questions skeptics and critics alike ask of the Christian worldview. These are the kinds of questions that trip us up and leave us wondering how to respond. The goal of this series will be to better equip you to answer them with confident grace and bold humility. In this first part of the series, we are starting right where we need to with the nature of truth. Does it matter which “truth” I believe? Let’s talk about it.

Does It Mattew Which “Truth” I Believe?

I am not a big fan of Minecraft. I don’t have anything against the game itself or those who play it. I have three fairly active players living under the same roof as me, and I regularly admire the things they have built in the game. Their creativity in there is simply amazing to me. But while I do enjoy video games every bit as much as the next boy born in the early days of the video game era, Minecraft doesn’t represent my gaming wheelhouse. My personal creativity lends itself to different applications. 

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Morning Musing: 1 Thessalonians 4:10-12

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“In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brother and sisters, to do this even more, to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, so that you may behave properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.” (CSB – Read the chapter)

We live in a fame-obsessed culture. Social media has made it possible for anyone to become known and followed by millions of people. My boys are all currently taken in by the Minecraft YouTube star, RageElixir. Gary Woo (his real name) started making videos about playing Minecraft when he was in high school. For some reason they started going viral, and now he’s a millionaire because of it. Yet by every observation I’ve made from being forced to watch along with them, he’s just a regular guy. There’s nothing particularly special about him that would seem to make him an obvious choice for YouTube stardom. But the cultural phenomenon of people like Gary becoming rich and famous has planted the idea in many other young hearts and minds that if he can do it, then so I can. Actually, the thinking of many young people today goes a step beyond this. Not only can I become famous, if I want my life to amount to anything, I need to become famous. This kind of thinking has taken over the culture…and the church. If I am going to accomplish anything meaningful for God, I need to be famous first. What Paul writes here, though, points us in exactly the opposite direction.

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