Lectures from 2014

MOG2014 06: As King of kings, Jesus requires all creation to worship him and to serve his kingdom purposes. Our hope is the gospel of the kingdom. By the power of the resurrection Christ is restoring all creation to a condition of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

MOG2014 05: Biblical principles of justice have profound implications for our lives and callings. Conference speakers interact with questions on: sharia law, millennialism, welfare, the tithe, political activism, and the Christian future.

MOG2014 04: Culture is the use and ordering of creation for a purpose. Equipped by the word and Spirit of God, the Christian's glorious calling is to build a godly culture, seeking first the Kingdom of God.

MOG2014 03: A culture following after Christ will pursue justice in a way that understands God as the ultimate judge and lawgiver. Our modern culture has embraced counterfeit concepts of justice which are traced historically, theologically and practically to our present day.

MOG2014 02: Twentieth-century academics have slanderously represented Christian beliefs and lifestyles as evil. Christianity is seen as the root of a fundamental social injustice which the progressive state must now eradicate.

MOG2014 01: Justice must be firmly grounded in biblical revelation; building a just society on any other foundation is impossible and yields only arbitrary justice. Biblical social justice is more than merely social criticism, and can be understood only in terms of the Kingdom of God.

Joe Boot addresses the competing worldviews surrounding the debate surrounding abortion, and the implications for individuals and society at large.

It is inevitable that religious beliefs will be taught to children in public and private schools, for there is no such thing as a truly neutral education. The question is not whether, but which, religious ideas will be taught in our children's classrooms

Joe Boot exposes and critiques Brian Walsh's false view of Jubilee and the doctrine of the Atonement. Rather than radical equality, true liberty is the truth that God in Christ has forgiven our insurmountable debt to sin.

Dr. Brian Mattson critiques the Marxist economic theories of Thomas Piketty, and demonstrates that the human problem is not wealth inequality, but sin.

Scott Masson gives a historical overview of how the philosophy behind the social justice movement developed in the west and now manifests itself in our culture.

Joe Boot unpacks some contemporary notions of social justice and contrasts them with a Biblical understanding of justice.