It’s Friday, July 25th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Victory for Dutch homeschool families
Earlier this year, the Home School Legal Defense Association highlighted the story of the Hinrich Family, who fought for over a year for the right to homeschool their children in the Netherlands.
Just this month, the Public Prosecutor’s Office publicly stated that parents who refuse to send their children to compulsory school, based on a qualified religious objection, will no longer be prosecuted.
Like the Hinrichs, over 2,100 children were exempt from compulsory attendance in 2024 in the Netherlands, due to objections by their parents that no school in their area reflected their religious convictions. This is one of the lawful reasons to homeschool in the country.
Nevertheless, parents were criminally prosecuted for truancy and found themselves, as did the Hinrichs, in a court battle to defend their natural right to raise their children according to their religious convictions.
Thankfully, this decision changes that.
The Public Prosecutor reported there were 160 criminal cases against parents in 2024. These prosecutions occurred despite Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which requires states, including the Netherlands, to respect “the liberty of parents…to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.”
Please pray that the authorities in the Netherlands will stop harassing homeschoolers for good.
Deuteronomy 6:4-7 underscores the role parents should play in the education of their children.
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.”
Epstein files controversy dragging Trump presidency down
The Epstein files controversy is dragging down the Trump presidency. Gallup reports that his approval rating has sunk to 37%.
The revolt of House Republicans who favor releasing the Epstein case documents surprised White House officials and multiple members of GOP leadership, reports Politico.com.
Some have questioned whether President Trump himself is implicated criminally.
In an interview with Major Garrett on CBS’ The Takeout, House Speaker Mike Johnson emphasized the need to be transparent.
JOHNSON: “We want full transparency. We want everybody who is involved in any way with the Epstein evils — let’s call it what it was — to be brought to justice as quickly as possible. We want the full weight of the law on their heads.”
GARRETT: “But when the Justice Department said in that same two-page memo, there’s no reason to pursue further prosecutions, many said, ‘How can those two things be properly aligned?’”
JOHNSON: “These are good questions. I don’t know. I’ve never seen the Epstein evidence. It wasn’t in my lane, but I have the same concern and question that a lot of people do. I mean, there are real victims here.”
Murder victim’s mother forgives murderer Bryan Kohberger
Bryan Kohberger, who admitted to brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death at their home in November 2022, was given his sentence on July 23rd.
Sadly, the judge sidestepped Biblical justice found in Genesis 9:6 which says, “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.”
The judge gave Kohberger four consecutive sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was also ordered to pay a combined $200,000 in fines and $5,000 in civil penalties to the families of each victim. He was also sentenced to an additional 10 years in prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine in connection with a count of burglary associated with the crime.
Amazingly, the mother of one of Bryan Kohberger’s murder victims forgave her daughter’s killer in court Wednesday, expressing hope that he would find Jesus Christ and said she’d be praying for him.
Cara Northington, the mother of murder victim Xana Kernodle, expressed confidence that “Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, now has her in His loving arms in Heaven, where she can never be harmed ever again for eternity.”
“Ozzy” Osbourne, who championed hell, wanted to go to Heaven
And finally, “Ozzy” Osbourne, who rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, died on July 22nd at the age of 76, reports The Guardian. The English musician adopted the nickname “Prince of Darkness.”
Osbourne’s signature song entitled “Black Sabbath” included these lyrics:
“What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn ’round quick, and start to run
Find out I’m the chosen one.”
In their 1970 song entitled “N.I.B.”, they feature the lyrics, “My name is Lucifer, please take my hand.”
And a 1980 song entitled “Mr. Crowley” referenced Aleister Crowley, an English occultist often labeled as “the wickedest man in the world.” Ozzy explored Crowley’s legacy with curiosity and mystique.
The lyrics said,
“Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head?
Oh Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead?”
Osbourne sold over 100 million albums, including his solo work and Black Sabbath releases. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Black Sabbath in 2006 and as a solo artist in 2024.
In the early 2000s, Osbourne became a reality television star when he appeared in the degrading, profanity-filled MTV reality show The Osbournes. It aired from 2002 to 2005 alongside Sharon, his second wife, and two of their children, Kelly and Jack.
Sadly, Osbourne abused alcohol and drugs most of his life. He also was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in his twilight years.
For someone who championed hell, he appeared to want to go to Heaven. In a 2010 interview with The Sunday Times, he said, “I genuinely believe that if you’re a good person, you go to Heaven. But I can’t imagine what that is. There has to be more to life than this.”
There is indeed more to life than what we can see in the physical realm. But, in Romans 3:10, the Bible says, “There is none righteous, no, not one.” And Isaiah 64:6 says, “All our righteousness is like filthy rags.”
Finally, Romans 10:9 proclaims, “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
If you’ve never repented of your sin and asked Jesus Christ to be your Savior and Lord, there is no time like the present.
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