I know a good number of people who have already dealt with the challenges of caring for aging parents. It can be very difficult—especially if there are severe physical limitations or if dementia is one of the causes of the need for care. I have observed these dear friends and relatives carry out one of the most demanding, yet profound, acts of love a person can offer to his or her parents.
All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
Faster. This little word ranks among the chief values of our society. We want our food faster, our internet downloads faster, our money to transfer faster.
Josh McCarthy tells the story of his experience at Bethlehem College.
The Fall 2015 edition of Serious Joy highlights “The Endearing Qualities of an Undergraduate Upstart,” including Bethlehem’s Four-Year Approach to Abbreviating Adolescence and The Bethlehem Habits of Mind and Heart.
Tuesday, November 10 marked the 532nd birthday of Martin Luther (1483–1546). Our undergraduate curriculum is fortuitously arranged such that the sophomore students read Luther every fall just after the date that, nearly 500 years ago, he tipped the Roman church down the steepening slope towards reformation.
After my conversion to Christ in 1994, I gravitated toward books about biblical studies, hermeneutics, and theology, especially after my wife, Susan, and I joined Bethlehem Baptist Church in 1998.
The church is often credited with establishing the first universities, institutions of higher learning, like the University of Bologna, founded in 1088, and smaller cathedral and monastic schools dating back as far as the 6th century.
We are in the midst of our Global Focus at Bethlehem Baptist Church. Beyond the normal responsibilities of our faculty (teaching, mentoring, grading, etc.), many are engaging in the ministry of the Word at Bethlehem and beyond.
My entire family is deeply humbled and grateful to God and to Bethlehem College & Seminary for the amazing gift of a research sabbatical from January–July 2015.