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“Here Are Your Gods”: Faithful Discipleship in Idolatrous Times is unavailable, but you can change that!

When the Israelites exclaimed, “Here are your gods!” at the sight of the golden calf, they were attempting to hold on to the God of their history while fashioning idols for their own purposes. In today’s Western world, plenty of shiny false gods still hold power—idols of prosperity, nationalism, and self-interest. Christians desperately need to name and expose these idols. We must retrieve the...

Flowing from this, there are many other subordinate distinctions within creation itself that the creation narrative alerts us to: the distinctions between day and night, between different environments on earth, between species, between humans in God’s image and the rest of the animals, between men and women. But undoubtedly the primary and most crucial distinction is that between the Creator and the creation itself. Not surprisingly, therefore, it is that distinction that comes under attack when
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