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God’s Kingdom: Now and Forever

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These days it seems that most people are looking for the easy answer or the one thing that could fix all their problems.  They are looking for that one pill or supplement that will take care of health issues. They are looking for the latest fitness routine that will get them in tip-top shape.  They are looking for that one investment or career that will bring financial comfort and freedom.  They are looking for that job or relationship that will bring lasting joy and satisfaction.

The great news is that during the Christmas season and all throughout the year, for those of us who are children of God, we can rest assured that God will accomplish His will in and through us and meet our every need.

As you read through the Matthew and Luke accounts of Jesus coming to earth, I want to remind you of a few key phrases that can have a profound present and future impact on our lives:

“…and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

Matthew 1:21

…and they shall call His name “Immanuel”, which translated means, “God with us.”

Matthew 1:23

“…and He will reign over the house of Jacob, and His Kingdom will have no end.”

Luke 1:33

As we celebrate this Christmas season, it should give us great peace and confidence in the fact that the Kingdom of God is a current reality and a future certainty.  It is the salvation that comes from Christ, His presence and reign in our lives, and the promise that His kingdom will never end, that must be at the heart of our lives and the education of young people.  These are the truths that motivate us at Kingdom Education Ministries to continue to encourage and train up the home, church, and school.

In Matthew 6:10, Jesus instructed his disciples in how they were to pray. He said this:

Pray, then, in this way: Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done…”

Because Jesus humbled Himself and came to earth 2,000 years ago, we know that God’s Kingdom is here, His Kingdom will never end, and He will accomplish His will in our lives.

 “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”

 

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Christmas & Kingdom Education

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At the end of November, one of our partners, BJUPress, posted a scripture reading plan to read the book of Luke throughout December. When I saw it, I instantly took a screenshot and decided I was going to embark on this journey. I honestly wondered why I had never done this before. It didn’t take long for me to begin the reading plan and to be both blessed and convicted.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

Luke 1:68-72

When I read these verses, I was reminded of the true meaning of the season: to have a relationship with the living God, to have Him visit us and be manifested within us, giving us the gift of salvation. The reason we celebrate His birth is to truly understand, as verse 37 says, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”

My mind then shifted, as it always does, to how this revelation truly impacts my life and the calling I have. Over the past 25 years, I have been deeply involved in Kingdom Education. All three of my boys have been educated in Kingdom Education schools, with the foundation of God’s Word embedded in their hearts and minds. Two of my boys have graduated, and now I have three grandchildren beginning their educational journey in a Kingdom Education setting.

You cannot convince me otherwise: when God’s Word is deeply rooted in the curriculum, teacher training, classroom interactions, and the core of education, daily Christmas is alive and celebrated. When we have God literally visiting with us every day while we open textbooks for math, science, history, English, foreign languages, arts, and athletics, lives are changed, hearts and minds are renewed, and eternity is impacted.

Looking back, was it all a sacrifice for my family and children? Most definitely. We may have missed out on experiences that others had. We may not have participated in everything that some may have wanted or desired. But what we did gain was a focus on what truly matters: Jesus Above All. What we did receive was a Kingdom Education that, Lord willing, will transform generations of Eulers to come. I would never have allowed my children, looking back, to choose anything other than what God allowed them to experience.

At a Kingdom school, you literally are bathed in what Jesus was bathed in.

At a Kingdom school, you literally are bathed in what Jesus was bathed in.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

Luke 2:52

This is how Kingdom Education and Christmas intersect. This is not only the why behind Kingdom Education, but also the benefit: daily experiencing the manifested presence of God within the educational process. You are bound to produce warriors for the Kingdom who are ten times better than anything Babylon has to offer.

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A Peculiar People

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A Peculiar People

It was a weekend that I will never forget.  It was in the midst of the COVID pandemic, August of 2020, that Dr. Glen Schultz invited myself and Tim Euler to his home for the weekend. The purpose of this weekend was to pray and talk through what God was leading us to do in the years to come.  As most smart people would do, we came with an agenda so that we would stay on point and could check off the boxes as we completed each item on the agenda.  However, it wasn’t long into our time together that we scraped the agenda and truly sought the Lord for what He would have us do to advance His Kingdom.

It was during that weekend that we really sensed the Lord leading us to focus on the following needs:

 Restoring the Individual

Restoring the individual by establishing an understanding of kingdom education and deepening one’s knowledge of God.

Empowering Parents

Empowering parents to fulfill their God-given mandate of providing their children with a biblical worldview education, resulting in them becoming disciples of Jesus Christ.

Engaging Churches

Engaging church leaders to address the issue of education biblically and equip parents to fulfill their God-given mandate to educate children biblically.

Transforming Schools

Transforming Christian schools by challenging educators and leaders to know, understand, and embrace Kingdom Education™.

As we fast forward to today, we are confident, now more than ever, that God will use the message of Kingdom Education to strengthen these four areas.  As I continue to pray through what God wants for the individual, home, church, and school, I am convinced that the thread that runs through all of these, is you and I.

In I Peter 2:9, Peter reminds us of who we are in Christ; “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people (a people for His own possession); that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” 

 James K. A. Smith piggybacks on this verse when he says, “…the primary goal of Christian education is the formation of a peculiar people— a people who desire the Kingdom of God and thus undertake their vocations as an expression of that desire.”

 I believe that as God calls people to Himself, restoring individuals to a right relationship with Him, He will use His own possessions to advance His Kingdom.  I believe these individuals will become peculiar parents who train up disciples for Christ.  I believe these individuals will become engaged in their local churches and equipped to make disciples of Jesus Christ.  I believe these individuals will be used by God to transform Christian schools across the globe; helping train up a generation of peculiar people who will impact the culture and world for Christ.

May this start today, as we live as peculiar people for Christ!

Give Thanks With A Grateful Heart

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Give Thanks

“Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.”

Psalms 100:1-5

I am reminded often of the song, Give Thanks. It starts off with the line, Give Thanks with a grateful heart. I process this when I am having a difficult day. How can I give thanks while still walking through the trials of life?

When The Tabernacle was built in Exodus, we were given a progression of relationship building with our Father.

Outer Courts = Thanksgiving

Inner Court = Praise

Holy of Holies = Worship

`This progression lays out a path to the presence of God. When we begin cleaning out our own hearts and offering up thanksgiving in the outer courts, our lives begin to be renewed. It is in the outer courts of the tabernacle that we begin to prepare our hearts for praise and worship.

Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Psalm 29:2

 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endures forever.

1 Chronicles 16:34

It is in the state of thanksgiving we begin to grasp the understanding that God is due all the praise and worship. We serve a relational God who desires us over any form of religion. Our offering of thanks sows seed into fertile ground.

The entitled soul can never give thanks.

True thanksgiving is an offering from the heart and not lip service. We live in a society where we are judged by the portrait of another person’s life. It is a compare and compete game that interrupts how we should offer thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the first step to entering His presence. When it is hard to be thankful, it makes the gift all that more valuable. Sacrifice is hard and it is why it is step one to praise and worship.

We offer up thanksgiving not because of who we are but because of who He is. Our thanksgiving removes selfishness, pride, entitlement, comparison, and covetousness. It opens us up to a relationship with our Creator. Being thankful is the first step of recognizing who He is!

I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people, In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.

Psalms 116:16-19

Why Kingdom Education

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Why Kingdom Education?

Dr. Luke Bowers

Many times when I have the opportunity to travel and speak with Kingdom school leaders and educators, I ask this one simple question:

What is Christian education for?  Or, put another way, what do we desire to get out of Christian education?

The answers that I usually get are along these lines:

Train up a Godly generation

Develop a Biblical Worldview

Impact the culture for Christ

Live and Share the Gospel

Mature Christian Leaders

I then follow up with one more simple question: Are we, as Christian educators, getting what we want?  Several authors, both past and present, would agree that we are not getting what we want, to the extent we want:

“The Christian in general and the Christian school in particular, itself has been so heavily drenched with humanism that it is unable to create a viable alternative.”-Jay Adams

“While parents and cultural leaders have proclaimed victory and superiority by pointing to evaluations that show our children to be getting higher grades, competitive test scores, sports trophies, and musical accolades, Satan has laughed his head off, knowing that we have refused to measure our (lack of) production of spiritual fruit.”– George Barna

I must say that I agree with Adams and Barna’s assessment.  We currently live in a world where a true Biblical worldview is declining quickly and in its place is a self-centered worldview, echoing what we see in Judges, that everyone can do what is “right in their own eyes.” We see this in our broken homes, shrinking churches, a consumer-driven mentality, identity confusion, and the social media crazed and anxious world in which we spend most of our time.

These realities are why the Biblical truths, at the heart of Kingdom Education, are needed now more than ever before. To truly lead our children to Christ and build them up to serve and glorify Christ, we must get back to Christ reigning in every aspect of education and schooling.  At the heart of Kingdom Education is the desire to see lives transformed as minds are renewed by the power and word of God.

The “why” of Kingdom Education is that Christ would reign and be glorified in every area of our lives. I have no doubt that when God’s word is at the heart of it all, we will see God’s Spirit doing a work in future generations that will transform lives, homes, churches, and schools, to the glory of God!

What is Kingdom Education?

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What is Kingdom Education?

Tim Euler

Since the Fall, we have lived in a world where defining the differences between good and evil has become increasingly challenging with each passing generation. One might argue that we are living in the most confusing times in history. The Word tells us that the end times will be like the days of Noah and the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. If we look around, we can clearly see a broken, fallen world. Confusion exists, turmoil surrounds us, and the human heart and mind are under constant attack from the enemy. We are daily engaged in a battle for the hearts and minds of the generations to come.

Kingdom Education exists to…

Restore Individuals to Christ,

Empower Families to create disciples,

Engage Churches to address education biblically,

Transform Schools to embrace Kingdom Education…

 Influencing future generations to bring God glory in all they do.

 Kingdom Education believes that combining the home, church, and school— in that order— is the only solution to the challenges of to

day and the uncertainties of tomorrow. Because of the Fall, we know that this broken state is growing daily. Imagine a three-legged stool, all three legs connected, yet broken. Kingdom Education exists to walk alongside individuals, homes, churches, and schools to restore the brokenness caused by the Fall. We believe the only answer lies in the truth of God’s Word.

Recently, I have had the honor of reading through early works by Dr. Glen Schultz. In a paper written for his doctoral work at the University of Virginia, titled An Analysis of Kohlberg’s Model of Moral Development According to Christian Thought (1988), Dr. Schultz presented the following closing argument:

“The highest basis for moral development must be based on Bible truth for Christians. Agreement with Psalm 14:1, ‘The fool has said in his heart, There is no God,’ sums up what Christian thought must say about all theories that deny such a fundamental truth.”

What is Kingdom Education? It is…

The lifelong, Bible-based, Christ-centered process of:

  • Leading a child to Christ,
  • Building the child up in Christ,
  • Equipping the child to serve Christ,
  • Causing the child to know and glorify God.

Future Plans

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Are Your Ears Seeking Knowledge?

Summer is here! It is hard to believe that another school year is over. As I reflect back on this year, I am constantly amazed by how God has been so good to me and Kingdom Education Ministries.

Yesterday, I preached at my home church with the main texts taken from Proverbs 18:15, Hosea 4:1,6 and Isaiah 4:13-14. These verses caused me to pause and reflect on where we are in today’s world. The writer of Proverbs states that,

The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Here we find that a person who has understanding is able to acquire or obtain knowledge. It also tells us that a wise person’s ear will actually seek out knowledge.

However, God had much to say about how His people were suffering for the lack of knowledge; they weren’t wise or prudent. You are probably familiar with Hosea 4:6 where God says,

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you…

God also explained why Israel found itself in captivity when He said,

Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; Isaiah 5:13

This is exactly what we are facing today. Christians are being destroyed for lack of knowledge and we are being taken captive because we lack knowledge. We look around and we are broken by a rash of mass shootings in grocery stores, schools, crowded streets and even in churches. Almost 2,000 babies are murdered each day in abortions that take place all across the nation. Suicide rates are skyrocketing.

We need to understand that many Christians find themselves captive to false ideologies. We see hatred and prejudice between people simply because of one’s skin color. We have allowed the false ideas found in social justice, gender identity and wokeness to creep into our churches and take many of us captive.

We are facing exactly what the Israelites faced in the times of the OT prophets — and for the same reason. We are lacking knowledge. Oh, we know a lot of stuff. We even consider ourselves very educated as more people have college and postgraduate degrees than ever before.

However, just like the nation of Israel during Hosea’s day, we have lost the ability to discern what is really important that we need to know. Hosea 4:1 explains what knowledge the people lacked that was causing them to be destroyed.

Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel, for the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land.

Israel was being destroyed not because they didn’t know anything. They were being destroyed and taken into captivity because they did not know what was most important to know. They didn’t know God!

When we read that there was no knowledge of God in the land, we have to understand that God is not talking about a geographical area of the earth. In the land refers to Israel, God’s people. Today, it would mean that there is no knowledge of God in the church.

It might be true that we know a lot about God but we don’t know Him like a husband knows his wife or a child knows his/her father/mother.

This is why I am becoming more and more convinced that one of the biblical principles of Kingdom Education™ may be the most important one. This one principle needs to have top priority in the education a child receives at home, church and school. Simply stated, it reads,

The education of children and youth must have as its primary focus the increase in the knowledge of God.

I am burdened when I see parents, church leaders and Christian educators putting so much emphasis on children and youth learning a lot of “academic” knowledge but very little attention to them increasing in the knowledge of God. This is going to be where I will be putting my attention and effort in the days and months to come.

I am so thankful for the many subscribers who have faithfully read these weekly posts and shared them with others over the past 8.5 years. However, the percentage of subscribers who read them compared to the total number who receive them has dwindled significantly over the past several months.

It seems we just don’t have the time to sit down and read. Therefore, I am going to be putting most of my energies into my new podcast Kingdom Currents (you can click on any of the links to go to the first episode where you will be able to browse all episodes that are available). I am hoping that people will be able to tune in and listen to this podcast while driving to work or going about their everyday activities.

I have found that I can go into greater detail and depth in a 20-30 minute podcast than I can in a blog. I am also able to conduct some interviews with others who are out there on the front lines of today’s culture war.

I ask for your prayers as I tackle this new endeavor. I also covet your prayers as I will be conducting two Kingdom Education™ Summits over the next 3 weeks. The Summits may be the most important events I have ever conducted during my 54+ years in education. The need for parents, church leaders and Christian educators to understand and know how to apply Kingdom Education™ in the home, church and school is of utmost importance.

I am also asking you to consider attending one of the Summits as it is not to late to register. It is my prayer that many of you will go to Kingdom Currents on your favorite podcast platform. Please subscribe and give Kingdom Currents a review to help get the word out.

Again, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to read my blogs. I have been blessed and encouraged by so many comments that have been shared by you at various times. I am certain I will be posting some more blogs in the future but it is time for me to focus on Kingdom Currents and the Summits during the next couple of months.

May God bless you as you are refreshed and renewed during your summer break.

The Challenges of Being Blessed

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I hear it everywhere I go. Christian school leaders are saying things like this. God is blessing our school. Our enrollment is stronger than it has ever been. We have waiting lists in many grades and we are thinking of expanding our facilities.

There is no doubt about it. Christian schools and home schools are growing at an unprecedented rate. Many believe that this is an unintended result from the recent shutdown of schools due to the recent pandemic. With students now attending classes at home on their computers, parents became aware of the dangerous ideologies that their children were being taught in secular schools.

Many parents said enough is enough and pulled their children out of public schools and chose to homeschool them or enroll them in Christian schools. Some parents made this decision only because Christian schools chose to reopen and made masking voluntary. Regardless of the reasons behind these decisions, it has resulted in rising enrollments in Christian schools across the country.

The Association of Christian Schools International, ACSI, reported a 12% increase in enrollment in their member schools. One article quoted a Christian school leader saying,

This is a once-in-100-year moment for the growth of Christian education.

With exploding enrollment numbers came some added blessings. Budgets not only became balanced but many schools experienced some surplus of funds that allowed them to expand facilities, faculties and programs. When talking with school leaders, I am often told how good God has been and how He continues to bless their schools.

Even though I am elated about all of this, I am also aware of some dangers that Christian school leaders must be aware of. Some recent articles have addressed some of the challenges that will always come with God’s blessings. These challenges may come in a couple of different ways.

First, God may test us to see if we stay focused on Him and not on His blessings. This was the case in Abraham’s life. God had promised him a son that would birth an entire nation. After years of hoping for this son, Issac was finally born. I can’t imagine the excitement that Abraham and Sarah must have experienced with this amazing blessing from God.

However, God tested Abraham by telling him to sacrifice this child on an altar. Most of you know the story of how Abraham trusted God and was ready to plunge a knife into his son’s body when God stopped him and provided a ram for the sacrifice. God told Abraham,

And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Genesis 22:12

Another reality that we must understand in light of God’s blessings is the fact that many parents may enroll their children in Christian schools but not for the biblical reasons for why the school exists. Many parents simply see Christian schools as safe places that are void of such ideologies as CRT, gender indoctrination, etc. They want the “safe” environment that a Christian school offers but aren’t really interested in their children having a biblical worldview taught to them.

I experienced this many years ago when I participated in several 4-day convocations in various republics of the former Soviet Union. These teacher training conferences were part of the Comission where Christian educators were invited to come to these countries and train their teachers on the topic of a biblical morality as a foundation for society.

One of these convocations was held in Minsk, Belarus. As we were sharing the truths of Christianity, a professor of Darwinian biology at the local university asked to meet with me. In that meeting she shared with me that a lot of the teachers in attendance weren’t really interested in the Christian faith. She went on to tell me that they merely were looking for a better economic system that would ease the terrible conditions that they had experienced under Communism. They saw Christianity as a means to economic prosperity so they would tolerate listening to us in order to achieve this end.

Parents who bring their children to Christian schools without knowing or wanting to know the biblical philosophy of education (Kingdom Education™) will also bring with them some pressures we must be ready to resist. If a school gives too much focus on Jesus and the Bible (in these new parents’ minds), you will start to hear such statements as,

We don’t mind Bible class and chapel but we didn’t enroll our children here to have Bible taught to them in every class. You need to teach the academics without all this Bible stuff.

A few years ago I challenged Christian school educators on the need to avoid pursuing the world’s concept of excellence and pursue biblical excellence instead. I explained how biblical excellence focuses on godly character rather than performance and achievement. At the end of the session, the head of a large Christian school said to me, “That was powerful and I agree with what you said. However, we must also understand the pressure from our parents to be “academically” excellent or else they won’t keep their children in our school.”

There is another challenge that we are starting to see spring up in Christian schools during this time of God’s blessings of increased enrollments. With this opportunity to impact many more young hearts and minds for eternity comes Satan’s attack to destroy Christian schools. I have become convinced that there is one hill that Satan does not want to give up in his war against God. That hill is the hill of education.

Satan knows that if he can control the education a child receives, he can take their minds captive to human thinking and the ways of the world (see Colossians 2:8). The devil has been quite successful in controlling what has been taught to the vast majority of young people in our country for many decades. He has done this by keeping more than 90% of young people in secular educational programs. As a result, 70-80% of Christian young people have been leaving the church within a few years after high school graduation.

There have been recent articles that have shown how Christian schools have been attacked for doing one thing — teaching biblical truth to their students. I strongly encourage you to read these two articlesChristian Education: an Alternative or a Standard? and A Christian School is Caught Teaching Biblical Truth. These are must reads for every Christian parent and educator if we are going to be prepared to engage in the cosmic battle of worldviews that are sure to come our way.

Unfortunately, we have far too many parents, administrators, board members and teachers who do not have a biblical worldview and, therefore, do not understand a biblical philosophy of education, Kingdom Education™. The result is not only are they not prepared for the challenges that are already here but they may also be used by Satan to attack the biblical purpose for why Christian schools exist.

I have been giving my full attention to addressing these challenges through these weekly blogs, the new weekly podcast, Kingdom Currents, and the upcoming Kingdom Education Summits. I cannot stress it enough how important it is for Christian school leaders to subscribe to the podcast and join me at one of the Summits this summer.

I thank God for the rich blessings He has showered on us by giving us a greater number of young hearts and minds to steward for His glory. However, let’s make sure we are up for the challenges that will come our way because of His blessings.

Serving God In Today’s Culture

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Several years ago, I attended a youth pastor’s event in Orlando, Florida that was conducted by Dr. Jay Strack. At the conference, Josh McDowell challenged us in the opening keynote address. Josh said something that caused me to pay closer attention to the culture we were living in at the time.

He shared how the country had gone from a Judeo-Christian culture to a post-Christian culture and that we were now living in an anti-Christian culture. He described how the culture supported biblical values when our country was founded. However, as time passed and we entered a post-Christian culture, the culture no longer supported biblical values. During this period of time, the culture merely tolerated Christianity.

McDowell went on to tell these church leaders that we were living in an anti-Christian culture. The culture no longer tolerated Christianity; it was now hostile toward and attacked the basic beliefs of the faith. You have to keep in mind that this conference took place more than 15 years ago.

I realized that many Christians my age were longing to go back to what our country was like in the 1950s and 1960s — thinking that those were the days when the culture was Judeo-Christian in nature and supported our Christian faith. As I contemplated the truth of what Josh was sharing, I understood that, while growing up in the 50s and 60s, the culture was already post-Christian.

It is true that we were allowed to pray in school and we weren’t hindered in anyway from attending church and talking about spiritual things in public. Yet, society only tolerated our faith; it no longer supported it.

The signs of what it is like to live in an anti-Christian culture were just beginning to show up. Fast forward to now and there should not be any doubt in anyone’s mind that today’s culture attacks any effort to bring biblical values into the public arena. This is especially true when it comes to how we educate our children and youth.

Secular education, whether in public or private schools, will not tolerate biblical values. This means that any attempt to bring truth into the classroom will be viciously attacked. This hostility toward Christianity has been on full display over the past few weeks. I have written about some examples of this hostility such as Disney’s effort to infuse LGBTQ characters and other efforts to sexualize children and youth in all that they do.

This hatred toward Christianity (I know that this is a harsh statement) showed up in full force on my computer screen this past week. Consider the following:

  • A Massachusetts’ kindergarten teacher bragged in a virtual meeting about teaching 5 year olds white privilege and mocked parents who expressed concern over the lesson.
  • Several women openly wished they had been aborted and how they hated their lives in opposition to the upcoming Supreme Court ruling that may overturn Roe vs Wade.
  • A Pennsylvania teacher hosted a drag show for students as part of a GSA club without notifying parents what would take place in this after-school activity.
  • Three Wisconsin middle school students were accused of sexual harassment for using incorrect pronouns when addressing another student.
  • A Florida middle school principal told parents in a Facebook post to stop “getting in our way” because teachers will “do what’s best for your students in spite of you.” You can be sure that what these teachers believe is best for students is not in line with God’s Word!
  • A Texas Methodist Church performed a gender-swap in lyrics to the song, You’re a Good, Good Father, and sang it instead, You’re a Good, Good Mother.
  • Willow Creek Church did a similar thing and read Psalm 23 this way: The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. She makes me lie down in green pastures; she leads me besides still waters, etc.

In the Pennsylvania example, it must be noted that when parents complained to the school, it was discovered that this event had been taking place for the past 3 years. The teacher who had sponsored the drag show posted this,

I don’t know how to explain the sheer joy i feel in my bones when these queens come take time out of their busy schedules to perform for us (year 3!) and to be with my students. as GSA co-advisor and a queer teacher, it makes me emotional to think of this space we have created– I would have loved nothing more than to have a space like they have, an opportunity to attend their own drag show…and to have these beautiful role models to support them. to model kindness. acceptance. perseverance. confidence. community. my closeted high school self finds so much healing in days like this. we all want permission to be ourselves. for some of us, we have to be the ones to celebrate ourselves. days like today are my why. je vous aime tous (I love you all).

It is somewhat encouraging to know that the school has suspended this teacher. However, it must be noted that the teacher was not dismissed. Unfortunately, parents will think that the problem has been taken care of with the suspension of the teacher. What should be of greater concern was that this type of activity had taken place for three years and nothing was done about it until a parent complained. This shows that there is a dangerous philosophy of education that has taken hold in the school that will continue to drive every one of its educational efforts in the future.

You may be thinking that this should be expected in a secular society but we are “safe” in our Christian school. An anti-Christian culture won’t limit its attack on Christianity to the public square. A case in point is taken from a news report in Kentucky. This news report targeted a Christian school in the area due to a leaked homework assignment.

A middle school assignment in a Bible class asked students to write a letter to a friend who is struggling with homosexuality. In this worldview class the students were to share truth with them that “God’s design for them is good,” “that homosexuality will not bring satisfaction,” and “that you love them even though you don’t approve of their lifestyle.”

A local businessman, who identifies as gay, was given screen shots of the assignment from a “close friend who has a child attending the school.” So, he posted this and said he received over 1,000 messages about this — including some from supposedly current parents at the school and school alums who all voiced concern over the assignment.

The school gave a biblical response when contacted by the news station. However, the report ended with a quote from an alumna of the school who “was angry about the assignment” and a final statement by the businessman.

They’re a private school they can do what they want. They have a board, they create their own values. Parents decide where their kids go to school. I would only say is I didn’t feel like I had a voice in 7th grade either when I was being forced to attend schools that I didn’t have a say. These kids should have a voice. (emphasis mine)

I am reading through the book of Job in my daily devotions and I came across a passage that describes the mindset that we face in today’s culture.

Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’ Job 21:14-15 (NKJV)

It is not easy to serve God in today’s culture. It is going to take courage and boldness to stand firm in the faith. We must be grounded in the truth of Scripture if we are going to survive the attacks that will definitely come our way. Christian schools must know and embrace a biblical philosophy of education (Kingdom Education™) in order to stay true to God’s purpose for their existence. We must pray for each other like never before.

I pray that you will consider joining me at one of the upcoming Kingdom Education™ Summits, where we will develop strategies for our homes, churches and schools in order to equip the next generation to serve God in an anti-Christian world. I urge you to register your school today!

We Shouldn’t Be Surprised

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This past week has shown us the total depravity of the human heart. The headlines have been saturated with news of a leak from the United States Supreme Court concerning its upcoming decision related to a case involving abortion. With the leak, a firestorm has erupted that is frightening to say the least.

I watched a short video in horror that was shown on social media. In this video, a woman does not hide the evil that surrounds the killing of a baby in a mother’s womb. The woman tells others who were listening to her what to do if they find themselves pregnant.

Ladies, if you get pregnant, run on down to the abortion clinic, and have that little *!#!*@*! sucked right out.

What makes this video even more demonic is how everyone in the crowd cheered when this was said. I also watched a two-minute testimony by a doctor before a Congressional hearing. He graphically described what takes place in a second trimester D&E abortion. The sheer wickedness of these two short videos left me somewhat speechless.

However, we shouldn’t be surprised by any of these things that are happening right before our very eyes each and every day. This is because God’s Word tells us what each of our hearts are capable of doing.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9

 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.  All these evil things come from within and defile a man. Luke 7:21-23

Much of the evil we see today is the result of what happens when the overwhelming majority of children receive a materialistic, evolutionary, atheistic education. This is because a secular education that denies the existence of God leads its students to become autonomous individuals who will do whatever their hearts desire.

Again, God’s Word describes what must happen when the fear of God is completely removed from any and all educational systems. Paul explained this when he wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit these words.

…although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. Romans 1:20-23

All people know that God exists and they are without excuse (see Romans 1:18-20). However, when they are taught that He doesn’t exist and that man is just another form of an animal with no inherent value or worth, they end up worshiping some part of creation and not the Creator.

Paul goes on to explain what happens when God is pushed further and further out of the public square. God will eventually allow them to reap the consequences of living according to their own, deceitful hearts.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. Romans 1:28-32

When we look around and see what is happening, it is proof that the Bible is God’s Word and is absolutely true. God makes it clear that when knowledge of Him is removed from education, people will live according to their debased minds. Not only will their lives exhibit evil but others will applaud them when they display any and all forms of wickedness.

In another one of his letters, Paul warned young Timothy what would happen as people move further and further away from God and His Word.

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. 2 Timothy 3:1-5

One must be living in isolation not to see that everything Paul said would take place in the last days is happening in our country right now. I believe we haven’t seen anything yet. We need to understand that anyone who takes a stand on biblical truth will face persecution. The human heart, when left to itself, will lead to unbelievable evil.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 2 Timothy 3:13

What should our response be to all that we are facing at this time in history? Again, we must go to the Scriptures to find our hope and the answer to this question.

1.  We need to go back to the truths of Scripture that we have learned in the past.

But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 3:14-15

2.  We must study the Scriptures and realize that the Bible, alone, has the answers to all of life and it will equip us to know what is right and what should be done.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

3.  We must be more determined and intentional in teaching truth to our children.

I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. 2 Timothy 1:5

Now for a big announcement!

I am excited to announce a new endeavor that Kingdom Education™ Ministries will be embarking on in the near future. I have been writing these weekly blogs for more than 6 years. It has been a rewarding experience. However, it has become more and more difficult to fully address some of the issues that are confronting the home, church and school through one blog post.

Because of a new partnership with Northwest Christian School and its biblical worldview initiative, Frameworks, we will soon be releasing a new podcast called Kingdom Currents. These podcasts will allow me to dive deeper into the dangerous trends that are sweeping through today’s educational systems. We have recorded the first episode and will be releasing it soon. So stay tuned!

I am asking God to use Kingdom Currents and the Kingdom Education™ Summits to expand His kingdom rule in thousands of homes, churches and schools. I pray you will be a part of these new initiatives.