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‘Let Israel hope in the Lord’

One of my favorite films, the musical classic “Fiddler on the Roof,” depicts the joys and sorrows of a small community of Jews living around the year 1905 in the fictional Ukrainian village of Anatevka. From sunrise to sunset, the endearing protagonist Tevye lives, with his kith and kin, like a fiddler on the roof, “trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck.”
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Let us remember: ‘We are bound for the Promised Land’

Though we know God’s presence and catch glimpses of His glory in our midst even today, it pales in comparison with what we’ll know and see in heaven. As Charles Spurgeon once wrote, “In our Christian pilgrimage it is well, for the most part, to be looking forward. Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.”
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Jackson County law criminalizes gospel’s call to conversion

No religious liberty exemptions are provided in Jackson County’s new law. A state-licensed Christian counselor working at an explicitly Christian counseling center could face prosecution. Evidently, even a pastor – if he also happens to be a state-licensed counselor – could be prosecuted for counseling someone in his own congregation. In effect, this law criminalizes state-licensed Christian counseling in Jackson County. Indeed, even if only in particular circumstances, it criminalizes gospel proclamation.
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Could return to faith resolve nation’s ‘flight from work’?

We can’t ignore one fact: The American man’s “exodus from the labor force” coincides with the breakdown of Christian, and particularly Protestant, values in American culture – including a theologically rich work ethic.
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Comfort flows from life, death, resurrection of Christ

Words of comfort come easy to most of us – at least, as the saying goes, until we suffer a toothache ourselves or stub our own toes. But one wellspring of comfort never runs dry – namely, the life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Even Pi Day points us to the Alpha and Omega

Even the unfathomable number, Pi, exists because Jesus has forever been the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End (Rev. 22:13).
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‘Revive us again’: More than 25 HLGU students find Christ

May God answer this prayer and bring revival not only on Missouri Baptist university campuses, but also in Missouri Baptist churches and families.
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Christ remains committed to the mission, but are we?

In his classic book, Experiencing God, Henry Blackaby wrote, “...[W]atch to see where God is at work and join Him!” If you look across the globe, you’ll see that God is at work to reach the lost from among all nations. And the ultimate outcome is sure. ... The only question is whether we’re ready to join Him.
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Spirit of solitude essential in the age of the iPhone

If we have hearts intent on hearing and heeding God’s Word and seeing God’s presence in the world around us, we can develop a spirit of solitude even on days filled with noise, distraction – and, yes, iPhones.
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Nation’s biblical illiteracy at root a matter of the heart

Bible knowledge among Americans, in recent years, has plummeted. And, unless God’s people immerse themselves day and night in God’s Word – reading it, praying it, sharing it, obeying it – America will face a devastating spiritual famine.
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‘Tidings of great joy’ proclaimed at Christmas

Too often, we treat this gospel of “great joy” as if it were humdrum. This should not be so. For this gospel is the good news, the glad tidings, the joyous message that the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, was born to us, that He dwelt with us and that, through His death and resurrection, He has dealt once and for all with the consequences of our sins.
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Gratitude a source of hope, even in a crooked culture

Gratitude is a fitting attitude, especially, in our day. For much of the crookedness and many of the perversions of our culture (to say nothing of our own hearts) arise from self-centeredness, from the pursuit of individual autonomy, from the desire to re-create one’s “self” and one’s world at one’s pleasure.

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