1 Samuel 12 outlines a pattern of covenant renewal in which we see the basic shape of the Gospel and the pattern of Christian worship on a Sunday morning.

 Is it intellectually stifling to insist that knowledge and wisdom have to conform to God's revelation? How do we cultivate a godly intellectual humility? In the providence of God, unbelieving image-bearers can discover many true things about the world, but they have to assume Christian perspectives to properly account for them.

We live in a difficult time to live as faithful Christians. The unbelieving world urgently needs the message of the gospel, whatever the cost may be. 

Our understanding of the first chapters of Genesis has implications for the way we understand the rest of Scripture. And very real, practical matters are caught up in how we answer this question. What is a human being? What is God? How should we think about caring for the natural world? How should we treat our neighbour? How should we treat our dinner? Our starting point has a great deal to say about where we end up.

Today, as in the time of the judges, we are to pray and work for regeneration and reformation, over against the spirit of revolution against God and his Word, declaring the whole counsel of God to the culture without fear or compromise. 

The biblical vision of the human person is based on the all-powerful Word of Jesus Christ, and cannot be synthesized or compromised with evolutionary thought.