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It seems that, for the most part, we do a good job of protecting our children from harm, illness, and other things that could affect their safety. We secure the doors at home, activate the security system, encourage healthy eating, ensure they take necessary medications, make them wear seat belts, and stop them from running with scissors. In these areas, most parents are doing a good job. But the question is: how are we doing at protecting their hearts and minds?

These days, there are so many voices speaking into the lives of our children—through social media, friends, teachers, and more. There are no longer quiet moments for young people to think and process. They always have something in their ear or in front of their eyes. It is becoming increasingly difficult for parents to monitor and restrict every influence in their children’s lives.

Our children spend hours every day in front of screens—whether it’s TV, Netflix, video games, or social media. According to 2023 statistics, “Globally, people average 6 hours and 58 minutes of screen time per day.” In the United States, the average is even higher—“7 hours and 4 minutes.” This number is likely to continue increasing each year.

As we continue to see the destructive influences on our children, I’m reminded of the nation of Israel’s descent into idolatry and destruction, which bears a striking resemblance to our current situation. In Psalm 106, we see the steps they took toward their downfall:

1. “They forgot God their Savior” (Psalm 106:21).
2. “They grumbled and did not listen to the voice of the Lord” (Psalm 106:25).
3. “They did not destroy the evil influences as the Lord had commanded them” (Psalm 106:34).
4. “They mingled with the nations and learned their practices…which became a snare to them” (Psalm 106:35).
5. “The Lord gave them into the hands of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them” (Psalm 106:41).

Doesn’t that sound similar to the world we live in today? Not long ago, I watched the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. By the end of the film, I was ready to throw all technology out the window. The documentary highlights how social media platforms intentionally use algorithms to target children, making them the product sold to the highest bidder for their attention. Jaron Lanier, a former Silicon Valley executive featured in the film, said, “The goal of social media outlets is the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your behavior and perception. Their desire is to change what we do, how we think, and who we are.”

Parents must recognize that their children are the targets, and the battle for their hearts and minds is no longer distant—it’s in our hands, our living rooms, and even our bedrooms. Technology is now used by the world to win our kids over to its cause. Even parents are being held captive by the influence of smartphones and social media. Sarah Zylstra, in an article for The Gospel Coalition, states, “Teens report that 15 percent of parents—or one in seven—use their device almost constantly.” (Gospel Coalition).

But there is good news. According to Zylstra, “Kids in intact families (those who live with their married biological parents) spend less time on digital media. These families tend to have clearer rules about screen time, and their children, with lower digital media use, tend to be less depressed, lonely, dissatisfied with life, and sleep-deprived.” This gives me hope that we can protect our children from the barrage of influences coming at them from digital media.

So, what are parents to do? We must be on high alert and do a better job of guarding the hearts and minds of our children. Scripture is very clear about this:

• “With all prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance…” (Eph. 6:18).
• “The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.” (1 Peter 4:7).
• “Be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” (1 Peter 5:8).
• “See to it that no one misleads you…” (Matthew 24:4).
• “Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation…” (Matthew 26:41).
• “Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers…” (Philippians 3:2).
• “Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert…” (Colossians 4:2).
• “Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what you have accomplished…” (2 John 1:8).
• “Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith…” (1 Corinthians 16:13).
• “You therefore…be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your steadfastness…” (2 Peter 3:17).
• “Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.” (Proverbs 4:23).
• “The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.” (Luke 6:45).
• “But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.” (1 Thessalonians 5:21-22).

These verses encourage and implore us to be vigilant and protect that which we have received from Christ.

I realize it is hard to monitor what your children are exposed to in the media 24/7, but I believe it is a battle we must fight daily if we are to be victorious. The seeds planted in the hearts and minds of our children will bear fruit in the days, weeks, months, and years to come, and once roots have been planted deep in their hearts and minds, it can be difficult to reverse the effects. Now, imagine if the Word of God was planted securely in the hearts and minds of our children. If that were the case, Psalm 119:11 would become more of a reality: “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.”

My encouragement today is that we be more intentional about what we allow our children’s hearts and minds to feed on daily. When they do see evil and wickedness in the world, unfiltered, we must make the most of every opportunity and use it as a teachable moment to show what is good and what is evil.

In November 2002, my wife and I brought home our first daughter from the hospital. Prior to that, our responsibilities were limited to feeding the cat and dog and changing the oil in the car. We were nowhere near prepared for how quickly life would change. However, as we look back, we realize just how blessed we are that God entrusted us with our two daughters.

Psalm 127 is spot on when it says:

“Children are a gift from the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth.”
— Psalm 127:3-4 (NKJV)

We can often forget, especially in difficult times, how precious our children are and how great our responsibility is to raise them to be “arrows in the hands of a warrior.” We can lose sight of the fact that children are not just a gift for our lifetime, but for generations to come and for all eternity. As Timothy Jones writes in Family Ministry Field Guide:

“Children are far more than a gift for this life. They are bearers of the gospel to generations yet unborn. In God’s design, your children and mine will raise children who will, in turn, beget more children. How we mold our children’s souls while they reside in our households will shape the lives of children who have yet to draw their first gasp of air.”
— Timothy Jones, Family Ministry Field Guide, p. 56

Jones goes on to say, “If our focus were only on this life, it might make sense to put more emphasis on the frantic schedules, the top-tier universities, and busy competitive athletic schedules than on the intentional spiritual formation of our children.” However, we know that God created us to be fruitful, to multiply, and to fill the earth. He has commanded us to bring up our children “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Genesis 1:28, Ephesians 6:4). To be obedient to that mandate, we must focus on raising arrows that are straight, sharp, and pointed at the target that will bring glory to God and advance His kingdom.

As our children are both a precious gift and a homework assignment for us, we must understand that Scripture is very clear: parents are primarily responsible for the education and training of their children. The Bible emphasizes this truth in several places:

“And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.”
— Ephesians 6:4 (NKJV)

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
— Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)

“We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children.”
— Psalm 78:4-8 (NKJV)

The problem facing today’s parents is that many have unintentionally or unknowingly abdicated a responsibility that is God-given. Statistics do not lie. Too many of us have delegated the primary responsibility for educating our children to others.

Author, professor, and political commentator Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry highlights this reality during an interview on MSNBC, where she said:

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everyone’s responsibility and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments.”
— Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC Interview

This ideology, which suggests the state is in control of our children, has even reached the highest levels of government. President Joe Biden once said:

“There’s no such thing as someone else’s child. Our nation’s children are all our children. As I often say, you teachers hold the kite strings that lift our ‘national ambitions’ aloft…you are determining our future.”
— President Joe Biden, Fox News.com

With such ideas permeating society, it is important to recall what Dr. Glen Schultz says:

“From birth on, parents must expend all of their energy to accomplish one goal—passing on their faith to their child’s heart. They must stretch and strain to get the baton firmly in the grasp of their child’s heart before the child gets too far down the racetrack of life. Statistics show that the odds of an individual placing his faith in Christ decrease significantly as the child grows older.”
— Dr. Glen Schultz, Applying KE, 11

Our children are the one thing we leave behind as cultural influencers and the only things that will spend eternity in heaven or hell. All the other things we commit our time and energy to will eventually fade away or be destroyed. As the enemy seeks to advance his cause, should we not give all our time and energy to ensuring “that all the earth may know that there is a God”?

As God calls people back to Himself, He can accomplish His original plan of parents being fruitful and sending out children to fill the earth and have dominion over His creation. This is no easy task, but as God empowers parents through the knowledge of His Word and the filling of His Spirit, He will do a great work in and through families for the good and glory of His name.

Through examining the birth of Jesus, we find a template for raising the next generation. This template is a simple five-step approach to creating disciples:

Faithful Parents

An Anointing

A Training (Biblical Education)

A Process and Timing

A Tempting/Trial

When we look closely at the life of Jesus, we must remember that He was 100% God and 100% human. We see that Jesus experienced temptation, was tired, cried, sweat, and, as Scripture tells us, He took on the form of a servant. As we study the Christmas story, we see Jesus growing, maturing, and developing relationships. This template, found in the first four chapters of Luke, establishes a pattern for parents, educators, pastors, and mentors to follow. The greatest takeaway for us to understand is that creating disciples for the Kingdom is a process.

The process of creating Kingdom disciples begins with placing our children in an environment based on biblical truth. Over the years, society has shifted the meaning of “Christian” to encompass many things. As Dr. Glen Schultz taught many, “It is easier to be traditional than Biblical.” The tradition of men has transformed the modern concept of being Christian into something less rooted in Scripture. When Jesus, at the age of 12, sat in Luke 2, He did not sit at the feet of influencers or cultural guides. He sat at the feet of biblical doctors of the Word. He asked questions, showing His 100% humanity, giving us a template to follow.

Our children face many challenges from the culture. They are confronted with worldly traditions and responses to questions that many “scholars” claim have no answers. However, when a child grows in “wisdom, stature, favor with God, and favor with man,” they experience a training ground rooted in the truth of God’s Word. When the angels cried out, “Glory to God in the highest,” they truly meant that we have a hope and expectation that surpasses anything this world has to offer.

This revelation of God’s Glory is revealed through the asking of questions and seeking for God to dwell among us. When Jesus was born on this earth, His Glory literally dwelt among us, providing a template for how we should live our lives. This template impacts us as individuals, parents, churches, and schools. The question we must answer is, “Are we living in the expectation of His Glory?” We should live our lives, parent our children, create discipleship in our churches, and educate our children with the end in mind—will they bring God glory through what they are learning and the answers they are seeking?

Merry Christmas from Kingdom Education Ministries!

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!”

 

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.

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

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

“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.

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?

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?

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.

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.