This weeks blog is sponsored by and, written by Daniel Stevens, is sponsored by the D3 Conference. Dr. Stevens, a professor at Boyce College, will teach during the breakout sessions at the March 27–28, 2025 youth conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
“Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts” wrote John Calvin in Institutes of Christian Religion, “the knowledge of God and of ourselves.”
If this is so, ours is a profoundly unwise age. It is not simply that we as a culture have lost our knowledge of God, but that in so doing we have also lost sight of ourselves. “Who am I?” is the question of the age. We are doubly adrift, with no sense of God to anchor our understanding of the world, and no true sense of self to ground us within our own lives.
Instead, we are spent in the fruitless project of trying to create ourselves. We craft personalities on social media, presenting exactly the pictures and words we want projected. We pick subjects in school and aim at careers that we think will give us meaning,
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