My wife, children and I traversed five states on a grand adventure earlier this month – thanks to a gift from some family members. Contentedly, we meandered through Grand Teton National Park and then through Yellowstone National Park, keeping our eyes peeled for bears, moose, foxes, coyotes, bald eagles, bison and antelope. We loved seeing such beautiful wildlife against the backdrop of mountains, streams and waterfalls. Eager to suck the marrow out of life, my son even delighted in every … [Read more...]
Amid crisis and conflict, Christ remains Lord of all
My 10-year-old son informed me last week that some nameless, Italian dental genius invented false teeth in 701 B.C., soon after the far away kingdom of Israel was crushed by Assyrian armies and just as those same armies besieged the kingdom of Judah’s capital city of Jerusalem. That’s the sort of fun fact you might expect to hear from a kid raised by two history nerds – that is, by me and my wife. It won’t surprise you, then, that my wife and I took the opportunity to indulge our nerdiness … [Read more...]
Conserve truth, celebrate fidelity during month of June
For decades, Christian writers have warned us about the decline of Western – and, more particularly, American – culture. “The barbarians are coming,” conservative evangelical theologian Carl F.H. Henry cried in the 1970s. He repeated the pronouncement again in 1988, writing, “We live in the twilight of a great civilization, amid the deepening decline of modern culture.” His was a stark message, but he maintained hope. Last month, Peter J. Leithart, president of the Theopolis Institute, … [Read more...]
‘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.” The film powerfully depicts the longing of these Jewish “strangers in a strange land,” exiled from the … [Read more...]
Let us remember: ‘We are bound for the Promised Land’
More than 2 million people flocked to northern Italy in 2010 to take a rare glimpse at the Shroud of Turin, purportedly the burial clothe of the crucified Christ, bearing His image. Another 2 million-plus pilgrims visited the shroud again in 2015. Five hundred years ago, by contrast, Protestant Reformers renounced such pilgrimages as, at best, vain superstition. The sixteenth-century English Bible translator William Tyndale, for example, criticized pilgrims who journeyed from church to … [Read more...]
Jackson County law criminalizes gospel’s call to conversion
“I know a leading psychiatrist who thinks it a bad week if he does not help two or three of his patients to (place faith in) Christ,” the Christian apologist and Oxford don Michael Green once wrote. Unfortunately, should that psychiatrist ever move to Kansas City, Mo., he could be the target of government prosecution for sharing his faith with patients – particularly, if he shares the gospel with children confused about their gender. As previously reported in The Pathway (here and here), … [Read more...]
Could return to faith resolve nation’s ‘flight from work’?
Whether the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 achieved any good for society, I’ll leave it for you to decide. But one good thing, at least, it did for me. See, for all the decades of my life, I’ve lived under the delusion that toilet paper is always in ready supply. The lockdown undeceived me, once and for all. Come to find out, if a man wants a delicate roll of two-ply at hand, the multitudes must sweat and toil. They must labor at logging companies, toilet paper mills and packaging plants, in … [Read more...]
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. Through the ages, Christians have sought comfort amid suffering by remembering the truths we celebrate on Christmas, Good Friday and Easter. Since Jesus lived and died for them, these Christians saw themselves in His story of suffering. In turn, … [Read more...]
Even Pi Day points us to the Alpha and Omega
Many moons ago, after surviving an algebra class in my freshman year of college, I bid adieu to mathematics and intended never to take up the subject again. Even in childhood, when for a short time I dreamed vaingloriously of studying astrophysics in the footsteps of the great Einstein himself, I disliked math – naturally, since few people love subjects they struggle to understand. On my wall hung a poster of Einstein, with words of hope for me: “Do not worry about your difficulties in … [Read more...]
‘Revive us again’: More than 25 HLGU students find Christ
Even as spiritual awakening moves across college campuses around the nation, Hannibal-LaGrange University experienced an outpouring of the Spirit during its spiritual emphasis week earlier this month. More than two dozen students professed faith in Christ, and many others were challenged to grow in their walk with Christ. “After 5 years of working in Student Life at HLGU, I never thought I would see the week that we just experienced on our campus. Though we often prayed for such things, it … [Read more...]
Christ remains committed to the mission, but are we?
More than half of the world’s current population has little chance of ever hearing the good news that Jesus saves all those who place their trust in Him. Late last year, International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood reminded Southern Baptists of this heartbreaking reality. “More lost people will die today and enter hell,” he wrote, “than on any day in human history.” The exact figure numbers in the hundreds of thousands – every day. Chitwood explained that, out of 11,946 people … [Read more...]
Spirit of solitude essential in the age of the iPhone
Little more than a dozen years ago, my wife and I walked into an AT&T store in Fort Worth, Texas, to replace our old cell phones. We’d resisted the appeal of the iPhone thus far, and we didn’t plan to change our attitudes that day. But the sales staff at that AT&T store must have been well-trained or particularly gifted. Within an hour of entering the store, we walked out with two brand new iPhones. The glamour of the sleek new phones, however, wore off quickly. That evening, as … [Read more...]
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