What is truth? Where did it come from? What is a human being? How do we know right and wrong? What is beauty? What happens when we die?

You'll find answers to these questions in the issues etc said are a book of the month for May

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Christian faith prepared with the reason. The values of the Christian have never aligned, whether it's the ancient world or today.

Now it may seem nowadays that the values of the world have strayed farther and farther away

even though they may have never been that close.

But what does a value system based in the world's idea of what is important?

What does it do when it comes up against Christian values or other values that it does not agree with?

And how does a Christian value system how does it deal

with disagreement. Welcome back to issues etc I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to answer the question what should we value and why

Dr John Ferguson he's pastor of Peace Lutheran Church in St Louis he's author of a

chapter in the issues etc book of the month prepared for a reason his

chapter is titled all things are not equal. John welcome back.

Thanks could be here as always. Why is the question of what matters in life

important?

Well, as we prioritize our lives and our perspectives, it becomes really important because it tells

us what we're actually going to hold on to, what we're going to

fight for, what we're going to focus on, and those things are key to our day-to-day

lives and how we react to our relationships and how we prioritize just from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed and how we look at our life as a whole and how we see the world around us and our relationships.

So when we look at what matters in life, it causes us to think about our values, think about what

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