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The Art of Transferring Faith: Five Timeless Principles for Shaping Hearts

Christian education is not merely about choosing the right curriculum, mastering the right methods, or achieving the right academic outcomes. According to Proverbs, true education begins with the fear of the Lord and aims at the shaping of the whole heart before God. In this article, we explore five timeless principles for transferring faith to the next generation: wisdom is caught before it is taught, transmitted through imitation, forged through friction, directed with deliberate care, and guarded from rival voices. But above all, we remember that education cannot save us. Only Christ, the wisdom of God made flesh, can resurrect dead hearts, straighten crooked arrows, and teach us by His Spirit to walk in the way everlasting.

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Culture Kendall Lankford Culture Kendall Lankford

The Closed Canon and the Insanity of Modernity

Modernity promised liberation by opening everything, but a civilization that opens truth eventually loses the ability to recognize reality itself. This article is a theological war hammer against the madness of our age, exposing why societies that reject God’s closed canon do not become enlightened, they slowly unravel into absurdity, confusion, and civilizational dementia.

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Education Kendall Lankford Education Kendall Lankford

From Puritan to Pornographic

New England once built schools so children could read the Scriptures and resist “that old deluder, Satan.” Today, those same institutions catechize children in a radically different gospel. In this essay, I trace how public education in America moved from Puritan covenantal formation to modern secular liturgy, and why Christians must recover a distinctly Christian vision of education before another generation is lost.

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The Foundation of Christian Education

Modern education has confused information with wisdom, producing a civilization overflowing with knowledge yet collapsing in moral and spiritual darkness. Proverbs teaches that the fear of the Lord is not a supplement to true education, but its very foundation, because every discipline in creation finds its meaning beneath the Lordship of Christ. Apart from Him, all human learning eventually corrodes into pride, futility, and rebellion, but in Christ, wisdom is restored and knowledge finally finds its proper purpose.

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The Angels Put Down Their Swords

Adam was driven from Eden by a flaming sword that no sinner could survive, and for generations that sword stood as the unyielding line between a holy God and a fallen world. But at the cross, Christ stepped into its full fury, bearing every stroke of divine justice until nothing remained. When the tomb opened, the angels were no longer guarding, but sitting, because the war was over and the way back to God had finally been cleared.

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