Wisdom of This World

This issue of Beacon Lights is intended as a word of warning to young people. A warning that reflects the words of the apostle James, who spoke to believers living in a world that is surprisingly similar to the one in which you are growing up (James 3:13–16). That world, like ours, was obsessed with the pleasures of material gain, sex, and entertainment. And it defended those idolatrous desires as basic human rights with an array of philosophies (hedonism, skepticism, stoicism) that sounded...