Providence Foundation
P.O. Box 6759
Charlottesville, VA 22906
To place order:
434-978-4535
The story of the events leading up to American independence reveals that the Christian faith was the central motive of our Founders.
God has given us everything we need, both internal and external resources, to create wealth in order to fulfill our calling in life.
How should the institutions of civil government and the church relate to one another? How can the church support the state and what should the state do to support the church? These and other questions are explored in this teaching.
Examining the Evidence of the Christian Foundation of America
A short course using the book America, a Christian Nation? Examining the Evidence of the Christian Foundation of America. This is primarily a reading course. There is one CD that gives an overview of the content of the book.
Many people today claim America is not now nor ever has been a Christian nation. Yet, the Founders of America spoke of her as a Christian nation many times. The first Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Jay,proclaimed: “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” The Supreme Court ruled in 1892 that “this is a Christian nation.” They recognized America, not as an ecclesiastical state where the church ruled nor one without sin, but as a nation founded upon Biblical principles, where Biblical truth and law were the standard for public life, law, and societal institutions.
This course examines the broad evidence of the Christian foundation of America: the motive and Christian influence in colonization, the Christian foundation and source of law, the nature and content of specific laws, the Christian nature of societal institutions, the Christian thought and life of the Founders, the Christian power and form of government, the testimony of public actions and words, the fruit of liberty and prosperity, and the central role of the Bible. It also addresses the claim that America is now pluralistic and thus Christianity must be treated like all other beliefs, concluding, as did America’s Founders, that Christianity is the source of liberty, and if its principles are ignored no freedom and permanent happiness are possible.
Author/Instructor: Stephen McDowell
Format: MP3
Pastors Equipping Christians for Their Civil Duties
It is the duty of Christians to address not only spiritual but also social and political needs in their community and nation. This book examines what those duties are and how the church can effectively prepare its members to be salt in the public arena. Includes the civil teachings of Jesus and the responsibilities of the individual, family, church, and state.
65 pages, B06
Authors: Bruce Anderson, Mark Beliles, & Stephen McDowell
America is becoming a lawless society because the church has become lawless. The church has in many ways disregarded all uses of God’s basic moral laws as revealed in the Ten Commandments: for civil use as a curb against sinful action in society, for didactic use as the rule by which we should govern our lives and grow to maturity, and for theological use as a mirror that serves as a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Through a series of questions and answers, using hundreds of Scriptures, this Bible study will guide you through the prohibitive nature of the commands, the positive corollaries and rights rooted in these commands, and their application in civil society.
Author: Stephen McDowell
96 pages, paperback
CREDIT COST $70
Foundations of Biblical Economics, Business, & the Marketplace
A Christian economy will flow from the heart of man outward. A comparison of the factors of production in a Christian versus a humanistic society reveals why some nations prosper and others are in poverty. The wheel of progress in a Christian economy is presented, showing the components necessary for prosperity, and for dealing with poverty, inflation, unjust taxation, and other economic concerns.
A Biblical economy will have an honest money system. One of the signs of a nation in decay is the condition of its currency and the degree of honesty in its weights and measures. Learn how to establish Biblical money and banking principles in a nation. A Biblical view of business and work is presented in the life of Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the reaper. This invention was the foundation for the prosperity of many. Work and business are a part of God’s calling through which people can fulfill their divine mission and manifest God’s Kingdom on the earth.
A central message of the Bible is that if we look to God as the source of truth and how to live our lives, and obey what He commanded, it will be well with us, as individuals and as nations. However, if we look to man or the state as the source of how to live, and walk accordingly, we will go backward. This is true for ever area of life, as God’s Word addresses every sphere of life. Joseph Lister became the founder of antiseptic surgery, and saved untold numbers of lives, because he applied Biblical medical principles.
Sessions include:
1. The Economy from a Biblical Perspective
2. Honest Money and Banking
3. Biblical Principles of Business and Work
4. Biblical Medical Principles
5. Principles of Christian Economics.
Instructor: Stephen McDowell.
5 sessions on CD with course manual.
Course No.: MKT01.
Choose Credit if you are enrolled in the Biblical Worldview University and you will receive credit towards your Providence Foundation degree.
Providence Foundation
P.O. Box 6759
Charlottesville, VA 22906
To place order:
434-978-4535
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