[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":76},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Farticles\u002Funder-the-radar":3,"\u002Farticles\u002Funder-the-radar-surround":65},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"bibleBooks":8,"body":10,"columnName":48,"date":49,"description":16,"extension":50,"image":51,"meta":52,"minRead":53,"navigation":54,"path":55,"postType":56,"publication":57,"publicationUrl":51,"seo":58,"stem":59,"topics":60,"__hash__":64},"blog\u002Farticles\u002Funder-the-radar.md","Under the Radar",{"name":7},"Dave Faust",[9],"Colossians",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":44},"minimark",[13,17,20,23,26,29,32,35,38,41],[14,15,16],"p",{},"Thousands of sailors were asleep aboard their ships, and some were eating breakfast as the sun rose on a quiet Sunday morning in Hawaii. It was December 7, 1941.",[14,18,19],{},"At 7:02 A.M., privates Joseph Lockhard and George Elliott noticed something unusual on their screen at the Opana Radar Station on the north shore of the island of Oahu. Radar was a new and unrefined technology in 1941, but Lockhard and Elliott saw what looked like a large number of planes headed toward Oahu. They reported their concerns to the commanding officer on duty, but because a squadron of American B-17 bombers was expected from California about the same time, the officer told the two privates not to worry about it.",[14,21,22],{},"At 7:55 A.M., led by flight commander Mitsuo Fuchida and his infamous battle cry \"Tora! Tora! Tora!\" (\"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!\"), 183 Japanese planes bombed the nearly defenseless American battleships in Pearl Harbor and attacked planes lined up on the ground at nearby airfields. A second wave of Japanese bombers followed soon afterward.",[14,24,25],{},"In less than two hours, 2,280 American servicemen and 68 civilians lost their lives that morning, including 1,177 crewmen on the USS Arizona. More than 1,100 others were wounded, eight battleships were damaged (five were sunk), and 188 aircraft were lost in the attack. The Pacific Fleet was severely damaged—but in the process, the sleeping giant of American willpower rose up with unity and resolve.",[14,27,28],{},"Two-thirds of a century after Pearl Harbor, the United States faces military threats from hostile saber-rattlers in distant lands like North Korea and Iran. The gravest danger, however, is not the threat of terrorist acts and nuclear bombs. The deeper problem is a clash of worldviews.",[14,30,31],{},"Say all you want about tolerance, but radical Islam is intolerant at its core. As appealing as it may sound to say that \"all religions are basically the same,\" major faiths differ greatly on fundamental points: What is the origin and value of human life? Who is God, and how do we relate to him? What is our eternal destiny? What book can we trust to tell us God's will? Is salvation attained by our own human effort, or by the grace of God?",[14,33,34],{},"Spiritual poison comes in pretty bottles. Postmodern platitudes may sound appealing, but any substitute for the true God still qualifies as idolatry.",[14,36,37],{},"And despite our culture's discomfort with narrow-sounding truth claims, a crucial question will not go away: Who is Jesus Christ?",[14,39,40],{},"If Jesus is who he claimed to be—the unique Son of God, the only way to the Father—then his glory must not be diminished and his authority cannot be compromised. If Jesus did what the Bible says he did—died for our sins and rose bodily from the grave—then he is unique, towering far above all other religious leaders. He alone deserves our highest devotion and trust. The Bible says, \"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority\" (Colossians 2:8-10).",[14,42,43],{},"We live in dangerous times. Worldviews contrary to Christian faith are slipping in under the radar. We'd better be awake.",{"title":45,"searchDepth":46,"depth":46,"links":47},"",2,[],"First Look","2007-03-11","md",null,{},3,true,"\u002Farticles\u002Funder-the-radar","column","The Lookout",{"title":5,"description":16},"articles\u002Funder-the-radar",[61,62,63],"Biblical Theology","Christian Unity","Spiritual Formation","6d_3aXt2Ee9A_n-UWAZdLN8Mf2mUG4rrRRccErdI3d0",[66,71],{"title":67,"path":68,"stem":69,"description":70,"children":-1},"Uncluttered Commitment","\u002Farticles\u002Funcluttered-commitment","articles\u002Funcluttered-commitment","My wife and I enjoy taking a walk in our neighborhood most evenings. During one of our walks, I noticed a large cardboard box someone had placed next to the curb. (Just for the record, I usually don't pay much attention to my neighbors' trash!) But this box caught my eye because it was overflowing with sports trophies—engraved statues of gold and silver athletes posed on wooden bases. The trophies—perhaps two dozen of them—poked through the cardboard as if the shiny athletes were striving for one more moment of glory before the garbage collectors unceremoniously carried them away to the dump.",{"title":72,"path":73,"stem":74,"description":75,"children":-1},"Underestimated","\u002Farticles\u002Funderestimated","articles\u002Funderestimated","My granddaughter Mara (age 8) and her brother Ry (age 4) spent a week at my house this summer.",1790466190399]