“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” Matthew 24:35

This was the heart of my message at a recent Indiana home school conference during my updated talk “How to Think Like a Christian. “We must praise the Lord for the permanency of God’s Word. We must rest in the hope it gives us during green pastures and dark valleys alike. In the end, however, faith, like love and hope, is not a mere emotion, but an objective reality based on deep commitments to transcendent truth. ‘Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen’ (Hebrews 11:1). God forbid that economic distress, political turmoil, personal heartache, or loss would cause us to turn from all we know to be true. God’s word is a solid rock (Psalm 119: 89-96).