Resources by Topic: Culture and Worldview

In this clip from a Q&A with Baylor University students on the subject of God and Money, Randy Alcorn shares positive and negative things he has noticed about the generosity of Gen Z.  

In this clip from a Q&A with Baylor University students on the subject of God and Money, Randy Alcorn counsels young adults about how to jump into tithing and make wise and generous stewardship decisions. 

In this clip from a Q&A with Baylor University students on the subject of God and Money, Randy Alcorn shares about how God gives everyone different gifts, including the gift of giving. He talks about how he and Nanci navigated different opinions about giving, experienced God’s provision, and raised the bar of generosity for each other.  

In this clip froma Q&A with Baylor University students on the subject of God and Money, Randy Alcorn shares which of his 60+ books he would recommend reading if someone could only read a few his books, and why he recommends them.    

In this clip from a Q&A with Baylor University students on the subject of God and Money, Randy Alcorn talks about the theme of “you can’t take it with you, but you can send it on ahead” from The Treasure Principle. He shares how he and Nanci applied that principle to their lives, and consequently experienced the happiness of giving generously to God’s Kingdom.    

God wants you to know the truth—as given to us in His Word—and for the truth to set you free (John 8:32). Our enemy, on the other hand, is a liar. He wants you to be distracted from knowing and serving God.

I remember reading an atheist decades ago who was saying how deeply grateful he was that many people believed in God, because he admitted that he had no basis whatsoever for human rights, and at least God-fearing people did, even though he believed they were wrong.

Just because we now have explanations and the ability to predict phenomena like eclipses, we somehow overlook many things, including that the only way eclipses work so perfectly is because of the same relative size due to the distance involved. 

In a Q&A about giving and The Treasure Principle at The People’s Church in Cincinnati, Randy encourages us to think differently about stewarding our finances while living in a wealthy society. 

 In this clip from his Q&A at The Fold (the college/youth ministry of Shepherd’s House Bible Church), Randy Alcorn shares warnings from Scripture about the dangers of money love.   

There is a remarkable Christian family dimension at the center of the Super Bowl this week. 49er quarterback Brock Purdy has had a storybook beginning to his NFL career. He was the very last player chosen in the NFL draft two years ago, and that player is called “Mr. Irrelevant.”

This election year, many of us are already finding the political commentary and news exhausting. Never have God’s people needed the reminder more that the key to influence and change in this world is not, and never has been, politics. It is faithfulness to Jesus.

Kirk Cousins, quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, and former QB of the Washington Redskins, is a faithful and Christ-centered brother. Despite the fact that those who know him personally realize he is a caring and loving person, Kirk has received heavy criticism for simply appearing on a Focus on the Family program.

Rosaria Butterfield's new book is Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age, and she addresses the propaganda modern culture has embraced about sexuality and spirituality, using the word of God to help illuminate each topic. I listened to the audio version of this book, and I can’t tell you how encouraging it was for me to hear Rosaria read it and to hear the inflections of her voice.