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… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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…. READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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.”… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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,… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
Vast Love 2 Timothy 1:13, Affection, Assurance, Christ's Blood, Christ's Character, Christ's Love, Ephesians 3:18-19, Ephesians 5:2, Eternity, John 14:21, John 15:9, Kindness, Ocean, Ransom, The Cross The love of God can never be matched nor perfectly described. Yet we have so many songs that try to illustrate how great and… READ MORE
A Wasted Life Christian Life, Complacency, Discipline, Eternity, Investment, Luke 19:12-28, Luke 6:48, Matthew 25:14-30, Matthew 7:25, Prioritizing, Proverbs 24:3, Purpose, Service, Spiritual Gifts “Someone once observed that a wasted life is really nothing more than a collection of wasted days. As God gives us life, each one… READ MORE