Tag Archives: BreakPoint

Stonestreet: The Sexual Revolution: Its Ideas and Its Victims

Posted on August 5, 2019 by David E Smith

What grounds human dignity? Without the answers that the Christian ideas of inherent dignity and equality provide, the culture turns to sex.

In the first session at the 2019 IFI Worldview Conference, John Stonestreet spoke on what it means to be human. In his second lecture, available here, he speaks on the sexual revolution and how culture has completely sexualized their answer to what it means to be human. After identifying the three major ideas of the sexual revolution, Stonestreet presents the redeemed reality of these ideas in light of the human dignity God has given us.

Please watch and …

Posted in Faith, Sexuality | Tagged BreakPoint, Christian Worldview, Chuck Colson, Colson Center for Christian Worldview, John Stonestreet, Summit Ministries | Comments Off

Marijuana and Psychosis

Posted on March 29, 2019 by David E Smith

The pitfalls and perils of marijuana legalization are well-documented. But whenever we discuss that research here on BreakPoint, we’re accused of not having the right research. What that means is that we’ve used studies that contradict the very vocal advocates of weed.Well, let’s see what happens when we cite The British journal The Lancet, which, along with the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, is considered the “gold standard” for peer-reviewed medical research. It doesn’t get more “real” than being published in The Lancet.

A just-published study in The Lancet…

Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Tagged adolescent brains, Alex Berenson, BreakPoint, Journal of the American Medical Association, King’s College London, New England Journal of Medicine, psychosis, Ron Powers, schizophrenia, The Lancet | Comments Off

Worldview Work Isn’t Optional

Posted on April 25, 2018 by David E Smith

Some are saying that Christians have lost the culture. But what if it was never a war to win, instead it was a calling to embrace? If there is an overarching theme for BreakPoint—starting with Chuck Colson and now with Eric Metaxas and me—it’s culture. Specifically, how Christians can understand it, engage it, confront it, even restore it—through the clarity of a Christian worldview. As Brett Kunkle and I explain in our book, “A Practical Guide to Culture,” what we mean by culture is not some mysterious thing cloistered in art museums. No, culture is the…

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged A Practical Guide to Culture, Alvin Plantinga, Apologetics, Bill Brown, BreakPoint, Brett Kunkle, Christian Living, Chuck Colson, Colson Fellows, Colson Fellows Program, Culture/Institutions, David Noebel, Eric Metaxas, Francis Schaeffer, Gary Phillips, John Stonestreet, Summit Ministries, Worldview | Comments Off

Religion, the Great Economic Engine

Posted on September 24, 2016 by David E Smith

Guess who has the world’s 15th largest economy, right between Russia and Australia? American religion. Yep.

Posted in Faith | Tagged BreakPoint, Brian Grim, Melissa Grim | Comments Off