Tag Archives: Worldview

Why Facts Don’t (Always) Win Arguments

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Alyssa Sonnenburg
Your worldview is like a pair of glasses. They sit right in front of your spiritual eyes, affecting your perception of everything you see. 
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Why Worldview Training Is Vital

Posted on January 15, 2024 by David E Smith
Do we need to engage in “worldview training” with our children and grandchildren? What difference does it make? Isn’t all of that “worldview” stuff just for philosophers who use big words that my kids and I can’t understand anyway? Isn’t it enough to just follow Jesus and leave worldview to others?
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Do Not Be Conformed To This World

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg
“My friend’s daughter went off to college, and now she’s a totally different person. It’s so sad.” How many times have you heard this story? I used to wonder how simply going to college could effect such a sudden and drastic worldview shift. I mean, going to a school couldn’t possibly change such a large thing as a worldview, especially one that has been held since childhood, right?
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Live Action: 1st Trimester Chemical Abortion

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg
It’s incredibly awkward when you’re in an important worldview conversation with a friend, and you don’t know what to say. You can’t figure out the right facts or convincing words to combat their argument, and worse, the conversation ends with you questioning your own beliefs.
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America’s Declining Biblical Worldview

Posted on April 10, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg
I've often heard the term "worldview" compared to a pair of glasses—your worldview is the lens that sits right in front of your spiritual eyes and affects the way you see everything. If your glasses are scratched, the whole world will look scratched. If your glasses are smudged, the whole world will look smudged. And if your glasses are pink-tinted, the whole world will look pink. And so, the best way to deal with someone who insists the world is pink is not to endlessly debate back and forth about any particular object whose color you disagree about, but rather to change out their glasses for a pair that lets them see the world as it really is.
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Biblical Principles for the Education of Children

Posted on March 17, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg
Any parent knows that trying to raise children is difficult. Especially if you are trying to raise your kids in the nurture and admonition of the Lord in a post-Christian society, such as our own. Everywhere you turn it seems like the world is trying to destroy any semblance of innocence in the hearts and minds of the youngest in society. How is a parent supposed to compete when the world is so dark?
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Politics – A Worldview Apart

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg
For Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.” That’s particularly embarrassing for her because a sitting mayor is supposed to be reelected. She failed to impress voters, yet announced that Chicago moved forward during her term. Voters disagreed. Opponents pointed out the rise in crime and a consistently divisive leadership style. So who is next up?
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What is the Church Teaching?

Posted on September 7, 2022 by David E Smith
What do you expect from your church? Biblical preaching? A community where biblical values are exemplified by clergy and laity alike? A recent poll from George Barna’s Cultural Research Center (CRC) indicates that these are no longer reasonable expectations in American churches.
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The House is on Fire

Posted on February 4, 2020 by David E Smith

Why Christians must engage the culture on sexual ethics or be responsible for our civilization’s demise

As a Christian pastor, I am seeing a dangerous trend among American Christians: There seems to be a philosophical and theological framework developing in reaction to a culture that is becoming increasingly hostile to a Christian worldview. In many cultural spaces, the Christian worldview is considered laughable and openly despised. The response of a large segment of evangelicals is to privatize faith and talk publicly only about issues that don’t ruffle cultural feathers.

This is most profoundly seen in the cultural conversations on sexuality. …

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Worldview Work Isn’t Optional

Posted on April 25, 2018 by David E Smith
Some are saying that Christians have lost the culture. But what if it was never a war to win, instead it was a calling to embrace? If there is an overarching theme for BreakPoint—starting with Chuck Colson and now with Eric Metaxas and me—it’s culture.  Specifically, how Christians can understand it, engage it, confront it, even restore it—through the clarity of a Christian worldview. As Brett Kunkle and I explain in our book, “A Practical Guide to Culture,” what we mean by culture is not some mysterious thing cloistered in art museums. No, culture is the…
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Censoring Christianity: How We’re Being Silenced, and How to Cope

Posted on April 23, 2018 by David E Smith

If you are planning to assault a stronghold, you’d want to weaken its defenders prior to your attack. I discussed a weakening strategy in my prior post [i] about patriarchy and gender roles. I described how reducing the public’s valuation of “what is a family” is vital for establishing a Marxist society.

Another weakening strategy is to silence opposition to your plans. Whether society’s defenders are silenced through force, or are shamed into not speaking up, there will be few objections to your plans to change things, and less opposition to your propaganda.

This article describes how some of these …

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The Wisdom of Washington

Posted on February 19, 2018 by David E Smith
The father of our country understood something important about education—and we would do well to heed his wisdom today
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A Return to Virtue in the Wake of Scandal?

Posted on December 9, 2017 by David E Smith
The consequences of the secular worldview on sexuality are now coming to light as sexual harassment scandals explode into public view. As Christians, we can use this moment to encourage those in our spheres of influence to “rethink sex” in terms of human flourishing—and to point them to the One who gave us this gift in the first place.
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If Naturalistic Evolution Is True, People Are Not Equal

Posted on May 6, 2017 by David E Smith
I find it odd when I refer to an atheist’s worldview and he adamantly denies he has one. This sense that “worldview” is an insult has puzzled me for quite a while; why would atheists think it’s an insult to have a consistent, coherent view of reality? As I’ve talked to them more about this, I think I may have finally figured out why many of them view the term “worldview” so negatively, and it has to do with their identity as atheists.
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Discovering Hidden Biases

Posted on October 20, 2016 by David E Smith

At the University of Illinois “Pride Festival” you can learn:

“…how to use verses from the Bible to debunk the “homosexuality is a sin” message — and how to make downstate Illinois more LGBTQ supportive. [i]”

To make you like them they want to change you and your worldview. Why is changing your worldview so important to them, and to you?

Your very own worldview

Worldview is just a fancy word describing what you’ve learned, the experiences you’ve had, and your future expectations. For example:

  • You know some parts of the Bible better than many other people, but
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