About Renaissance Ministries

Our Mission
To validate the connection between science, faith, and human experience in the context of Biblical Truth. To teach and justify living in the Holy Spirit with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, as perfect men and women who please God. To propagate and facilitate a deep understanding of the physical and spiritual worlds that leads to widespread adoption of faith and righteousness in the private and public spheres.

Our Vision
We envision a world where faith and reason work in harmony, where scientific understanding deepens spiritual wisdom, where truth-seekers can find intellectually satisfying paths to faith, where the culture expects Biblical Godliness to be taught at home, school, and church, and where Biblical Godliness is the overt, accepted, and expected standard of government administration, legislation, and adjudication.

Our Approach
Renaissance Ministries’ method of winning souls, inspiring holiness, and giving purpose is to present the evidence of science and postulate as a unifying paradigm of life’s fundamental reality that bridges the apparent gap between the material and the spiritual world. The first postulate is that the story of the Bible is consistent with an underlying reality of a physical and spiritual universe formed from/or/by the mind/spirit/being of God. Acts 17:28, “In Him we live and move and have our being.”

1. Scientific Foundation

  • Rational analysis of fundamental physics concepts that connect the physical universe with the consciousness/mind/spirit of God
  • Mastery of the experimental evidence that justifies the mathematical and logical relationships between experiment, theory, and the connection to the foundation of reality.
  • Development of a unified theory of mind, matter, energy, space, and time that connects physical and spiritual phenomena into a seamless continuum.

2. Spiritual Understanding

  • Framing of the Biblical texts/principles/ethics/morality in logical terms based upon God’s character and purpose in creating the creation
  • Integration of the postulate of God’s essence, omnipresence, and nature with scientific evidence and theory
  • Exploration of how faith informs our understanding of reality

3. Personal Transformation

  • Supporting individuals in rationalizing, knowing, and loving Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior through reading and meditating on the words of the Bible; prayer for a felt experience of the Truth; and an ongoing sharing of doubts, fears, traumas, and feelings with a committed partner.
  • Supporting growth into the maturity of Godly character in moral commitment, intellectual understanding, and emotional regulation
  • Participation in a community to do evangelism, support new believers in their maturation into Godly character, and influence the culture to adopt Biblical Godliness

4. Societal Transformation

  • Support grassroots political involvement with one-on-one in the context of a “Meet me for Coffee Campaign” to discuss candidates, legislation, and issues
  • Encourage the formation of God-fearing/liberty loving/morally straight/Biblically literate voting blocks
  • Study and learn the ways of the world/reality and the ways of God from the examples of history, from the metaphors of science and nature, and from the lessons of Biblical stories as patterns and models for the formation/organization/maintenance of meaningful and satisfying social systems

Our Foundation
Founded by Dr. Thomas Lee Abshier, ND, Renaissance Ministries emerged from decades of his research and contemplation at the intersection of physics, philosophy, and faith. Dr. Abshier’s background in engineering, natural medicine, and spiritual seeking provides a unique perspective on how modern scientific understanding can be the window through which we realize/know and see God present in all creation.

Current Projects

  • Continued development of a unified theory of mind, mass, energy, time and space as it applies to the body of physics phenomena
  • Biblical analysis and commentary about the unity of God, man, and the creation and its implication for daily life and moral choices
  • Documenting the unification of quantum mechanics, relativity, particles and fields as phenomena of mind/consciousness/spirit
  • Developing educational resources to rationalize the message of Biblical morality, purpose, and Godly living
  • Creating the space and expectation of unrestricted dialogue/discussion/debate about the hard issues of philosophy, religion, ethics, science, and purpose
  • Developing psychological perspectives for understanding and regulating emotion and instinct
  • Developing a training for lasting relationships of mutual service, and repair and avoidance of offense
  • Develop a K-12, undergrad, post grad, and professional educational system to support the moral paradigm of Biblical Godliness integrated into a satisfying experience of life, relationships, and community
  • Developing plans, methods, and protocols to improve the social order economically (meeting of needs and wants), in health and longevity, in the harmony of nature and technology, and in the experience of joy/peace/beauty/meaning in life

Join Our Journey
We welcome fellow seekers, scientists, theologians, and the uninitiated to join us in exploring the fundamental questions about reality, consciousness, relationship, purpose/meaning, and faith.