“Happiness is . . .” the craving of every human heart currently or formerly alive. “Happiness is . . .” something that everyone seeks and very few find. “Happiness is . . .” according to the advertisers, everything from “razor blades that give a s-m-o-o-t-h-e-r shave” to toothpaste producing greater “sex appeal” to detergent that […]
During the weeks preceding the festival of Christ’s nativity the Christian Church, both in sermon and in song, turns its reverent attention to the ancient prophecies which speak of the One that should come, Advent and Christmas hymns abound in references to Old Testament prophecy. They hail the Babe of Bethlehem as the “Prince of Peace…, […]
Jesus brings division. He understood that this would be the case. He did not want his disciples to misconstrue the impact of his coming into the world: “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword” (Matt. 10:34).1 He knew that people would […]
(Conclusion of meditation begun in the August issue) “Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood; and he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.” (Rev. 1:5, 6). “Loosed from our sins by […]
It was August 1, 1990, about a month after rebels had captured the city suburbs just a mile from our home. Just yesterday, angry government troops massacred nearly a thousand refugees at early dawn in the St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Monrovia. Our little neighborhood had become a ghost town of shelling and bombing, driving […]
Somebody should be embarrassed. I don’t know if it’s the “scholars” who are members of the so-called “Jesus Seminar,” Macmillan Publishing Co. for publishing their book, or the wire services for giving them all so much publicity recently. But somebody should be embarrassed. The news feature noted that based on the work of a group […]
Some psalms are easy to love. It is no mystery why Psalm 23 is a perennial favorite. But it is also no mystery why we cherry-pick the psalms. What do you do with prayers that ask God to let the children of the wicked become vagabonds (Ps. 109:10)? Parts of some psalms can hardly be […]
The First Amendment got a thorough thrashing recently when the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a restraining order against West High School students in Salt Lake City. Its ruling was in response to a lawsuit by a student and her parents demanding that the school’s a-capella choir not sing two traditional songs because they […]
If you want to start a lively debate, one sure way to do so is to make a statement about Outcomes-Based Education, “OBE” for short. During the last few years the clash of opinions on this issue has been heard loud and long in many of our Christian school communities. In some of those communities, […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (June 7, 1996) URNS — A few short weeks after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the apostle Peter declared to an astounded crowd in Jerusalem that “there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Nearly two […]