Eternity

Hope of Afterlife

Afterlife, Confidence, Eternity

Several recent television shows have tackled the question of eternal life with(very) limited success. The title of Ricky Gervais’s Netflix series After Life issome…

Sheep’s Perspective

Confidence, Eternity, Perspective

In a reflection on a walk in the English countryside, writer Laura Smit describesthe experience of seeing sheep. At a distance, they are “spectacularly…

Eternal Outlook

Eternal Perspective, Eternity, Future Hope, God's Promises, Our Future

In The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard ends the book by pointing forward. Christians must be future focused, not on ten or twenty years from…

Life Continues After Death

Afterlife, Death, Eternal Life, Eternity, Life

“Death is only the beginning.” This is said in the action movie The Mummy (directed by Stephen Sommers [Universal Pictures, 1999]) to emphasize the…

Addition By Subtraction

Eternity, Perspective, Recovery, Rest, Sabbath

Addition by subtraction may seem an odd approach to eternity, but there is a parallel to it in our world when you consider Olympic athletes….

Treasure Hunters

Eternal Perspective, Eternity, Priorities, The Heart, Treasure

In June of 2020, the news broke that buried treasure had been found in the Rocky Mountains. The story as it unfolded was almost impossible…

Eternity Is A Long Time

COVID-19, Eternity, God's Love, Love, Quarantine

God’s love is giving in its nature. That’s what John 3:16 tells us: he “so loved the world” that he did what? “He gave.”…

Shadows

Already And Not Yet, Christ's Death, Christ's Victory, Death, Eternity, Resurrection, Shadows, Victory

“Donald Grey Barnhouse, who was a pastor at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia for many years, lost his wife when his daughter was still…

More Than A Trend

Eternity, Faith, Good News, Jesus, Jesus' Death, The Life of Jesus, Trends

We can see all sorts of trends come and go. Whether it’s disco, Rubik’s cubes, or the “Baby Shark” song, we have all experienced…

Rattling Confessions

Confession, Eternity, Forgiveness, Grace, Offense, Reality, Salvation

In our world today, we have this aversion to any kind message that strikes us as judgmental: that maybe the way we want to…

A Foretaste

Church, Community, Eternity, Foretaste, Hope, Now And Not Yet, Waiting

Christian communities are a place where we can have a foretaste of heaven here on earth. What’s a foretaste? Have you ever cooked bacon…

Butterfly Effect

Choices, Effects, Eternity, Faith, Future, Past, Present, Time

The “butterfly effect” is the idea that little things can have big consequences. We must be willing to accept that all of our choices…

A Worthwhile Suffering

1 Peter 4:12-19, 1 Peter 5:10, 2 Corinthians 4:17, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, Endurance, Eternity, Glory, Pain, Patience, Priceless, Revelation 21:4, Reward, Romans 5:3-5, Romans 8:18, Romans 8:28, Suffering, Trials, Value, Worth

“Would you go through all the pain of childbirth again, just to be able to have that beautiful child of yours?” For most mothers,…

What God Has Done

1 Corinthians 2:9, 1 John 3:2, 2 Peter 1:10-11, Conqueror, Death, Eternity, Fear, God's Love, Gratitude, Micah 4:4, Mighty, Praise, Revelation 21:4, Strength, Victor

“It is not possible, wonderful Lord, to express in human speech the depths of our gratitude to God for the preciousness of the hope…

Blessed Are The Persecuted

1 Peter 4:12-14, 2 Timothy 3:12, Church, Eternity, Faith, John 15:18, Love, Luke 6:22, Matthew 5:10, Persecution, Perseverance, Religious Freedom, Remembrance, Shelter, Suffering

In a review from Christianity Today on the book They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run from ISIS with Persecuted Christians in the…

Gaining By Losing

Acts 13:47, Counting the Cost, Death, Eternity, Faithfulness, Hostility, Jim Elliot, Mark 16:15, Mark 8:35, Matthew 5:15-16, Missionary, Perspective, Romans 1:16, Sacrifice, Salvation

Jim Elliot was an evangelical missionary who attempted to reach out to a small Indian settlement in Ecuador with a team. Unfortunately, the entire…