Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman Dr. E. Calvin Beisner will be in Illinois April 25-28 speaking on Climate Change & The Christian: What's True, What's False, What's Our Responsibility? at four separate events with the Illinois Family Institute. Tuesday, April 25, Stockholm Inn 2420 Charles Street, Rockford, IL 61108 5 p.m., Dinner 6 p.m.: presentation "Climate Change & the Christian: What's True, What's False, and What's Our Responsibility?” People … [Read more...]
Make Us Good Stewards We Pray
One of the classic psalms about God’s creation is Psalm 104, a model for how those who love that creation and want to be its good stewards should pray: Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers … [Read more...]
We Pray God’s Blessing On His People
The Cornwall Alliance is dedicated to promoting Biblical earth stewardship, economic development for the poor, and the gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s important that we consistently remember the difference between God and man, the sinfulness of man, and the impacts of our sin and God’s judgment in this life. For this reason we join Moses in his wonderful prayer, recorded in Psalm 90, for God’s blessing on His people and their efforts: Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all … [Read more...]
We Pray to the God Who Controls All Things
In his book Reflections on the Psalms, C.S. Lewis wrote that the modern, secularist approach to science makes us prone to forget that God is actively involved in everything that happens in the “natural” world around us. Christians should resist that tendency by remembering that God controls every cloud, every raindrop, every lightning bolt, every storm, the growth of every plant and tree and animal, and the life and health of every man, woman, and child. Psalm 147 demonstrates that awareness and … [Read more...]
Prayer to the Creator
Heavenly Father, We glorify you as the creator of all things. You spoke and the universe came into existence, You spoke and there was light. Later, at Your command, flowers, trees, and plants sprang from the ground, the seas teemed with living things and the earth with living creatures. Then in your perfect time, you created man. Dear Lord, we come before you now to give you glory for that which you have created. In our flesh, we sometimes speak of sustaining your creation, but we are … [Read more...]
Even As We Suffer, Remind Us That Redemption Comes
A prayer based on Romans 8:18–25: Our Father in heaven, in this present time we suffer many things—illness, the death of loved ones, poverty, injustice, and the disappointment of our own sins. Yet we proclaim with the Apostle Paul that these sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory that You will one day reveal to us. It is an amazing thing to know that the creation waits for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God. Our redemption is the key to its redemption! Please use … [Read more...]
Help Us to Honor You by Caring for Creation
Almighty God, in Your Son our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the everlasting Word made flesh, the Word revealed, we know that You created all things that are and declared them good, creating lastly, in order, Humanity, male and female, as the crowning act of Your incomprehensible work; placing us in the Garden, with purpose, giving us dominion over Your creation on earth, and charging us to steward this remarkable gift with care; So, therefore, help us to honor You by caring for Your creation … [Read more...]
We Confess that We Pray Too Little
It is easy for Christians to focus so much on personal salvation that we forget about surrounding society’s need for the salt and light of the gospel. It, too, needs transformation by Christ, and we, His people, are the primary means by which He achieves that. It’s also easy for us to forget that Christ came not only to save individuals from our sins, and not only to transform societies, but even to save the creation itself from the curse God pronounced on it because of Adam’s sin (Genesis … [Read more...]
Caring for Creation: A Book of Good Intentions but Poor Science
As an evangelical Christian, I believe we should be good stewards of God’s planet. We should strive to reduce pollution to protect human health and the natural environment. We should explore new alternative energy sources, always seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harms. We should prioritize providing electricity for the 1.2 billion people who don’t have it—and consequently suffer high rates of disease and premature death. For these and many other reasons I applaud Mitch Hescox and … [Read more...]
Whatever Happened to the Gospel?
New guidelines for spiritual formation for future Roman Catholic priests call for them to "have a good grasp of the global climate problem" and share it with their congregations, according to Catholic Online. Those behind the guidelines insist that they're not politically motivated. Rather, they insist that all the politics is on the other side, with fossil fuel interests funding "denialism." Apparently they're unaware that renewable fuel interests fund alarmism. Maybe the Roman Catholic … [Read more...]
