THE WAY. . .
Jesus died to provide the way:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
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Category Archives: Issue 54
Sword Bearers?
Well over 900 years ago, in 1096 to be exact, a church leader made a speech that was to change history.
The Great Syria-African Rift
“All these [armies] were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits” (Genesis 14:3, 10).
True Values
In 1271 the renowned Italian explorer, Marco Polo, set out for the mysterious land of China. Twenty years in China acquainted Polo with a land far more advanced in many ways than Europe of that day.
Taking Back the Government?
I suggested in the last issue that in America, confusion and shame has come upon Christianity with a misguided notion of a special permanent relationship between God and America. Over the last thirty years, we have seen professed “evangelical Christian” presidents preside over ever lower legal and moral standards. It also appears that moral and ethical failure, sin, and deception appear to ensnare “Christian” politicians at about the same rate as their non-Christian counterparts. While we can be sure that God has not changed, we cannot claim the same for the so-called Christian west. In my growing-up years, a divorced/remarried man would have had little chance of winning the presidency. Yet by 1980, such a man was the favored candidate of the “moral” majority, swept into office by the “conservative right.” Many have already lost sight of the permanence of marriage as the foundation of the culture. When this is gone, every other value is negotiable.
Weather and the Future!
Until the last fifty years most scientists were quite optimistic about the future of the earth and of mankind. I’ve read predictions of the sun wearing out in maybe 100,000 years or so. If you had asked such questions as, “Is the earth slowing down?” or “Are climates changing on the earth?” the answer would have been a rather haughty, “Well, of course not!”
How to Command Children in the Way of the Lord
“For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the lord, to do justice and judgment; that the lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him” (Genesis 18:19).
Afraid to Die?
The only sure thing about life is that it will end. And the one thing sure about death is that it scares us. It wasn’t always so, but we’re all too young to remember when folks lived without the fear of death. When God first created Adam and Eve, and placed them in Eden, death was no threat, except if they should sin. They did disobey God and thus sinned, and death has hung like a threatening cloud over every life since. The rest of us sinned like Adam, so we all share in the responsibility for death coming into the world. We are now mortal, and all come under God’s righteous sen- tence: “The soul that sinneth it shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4).