We Americans are pragmatic people. In many ways, pragmatism was built into the fabric of our society due to necessity. When people moved to North America about four hundred years ago, they had to figure out how to survive. They needed to grow food, build homes, develop businesses, and build a society. There were many immediate needs. Learning needed to produce something. As time went by, pragmatism developed into a philosophical movement. According to Merriam-Webster, pragmat

We Need Wisdom What do we need at work? Wisdom. How about in marriage and in parenting? Wisdom. What do you and I need as we approach the various challenges in our lives? Wisdom. What do we need in financial management, in time management, in leadership, in reading books, in choosing the words we speak, in relationships, and in every other aspect of life? Wisdom. What is wisdom? How do we get it? Wisdom is a theme that shows up from the beginning to the end of Scripture. Most

"Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?" -Luke 14:31 ESV The news this week has been focused primarily on the war breaking out in the Middle East. Many are wondering: Is this war just? (For a more thorough article on the different views on whether war is biblical, please click here .) The just war theory is one of the most comm

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism, at its core, means to use someone's idea without credit. According to Merriam-Webster , to plagiarize means "to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source."[1] What is the history of plagiarism? The English word "plagiarize" likely dates back to the 1600s.[2] However, the term comes from French, Greek, and Latin influences dating centuries before.[3] Ideas which are

“Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses. As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in...

Type of Doctrine: Debated But Typically Tertiary (see explanation below) "Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will...

Type of Doctrine: Secondary or Tertiary "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from...