Bringing Light to Life
Throughout the Bible we are urged to fight the enemy, do battle, and wage war. We’ve not been placed in a spiritual Disneyworld and told to “have fun.” By birth we’ve entered a battlefield. By rebirth we’ve enlisted in God’s army as warriors of light. Abraham’s nephew Lot learned this lesson on the evening two […]
If you search for the word “racism” in the Bible you won’t find it. Just go to any online Bible concordance and type racism in the search window and hit “enter.” Nothing will show up. Nada. Zero. That doesn’t mean God has nothing to say about the subject. He does. But in the Bible the […]
Paul commands us to focus our mind, our thoughts, on Christ in heaven, not on this world, because we died with Christ and are hidden with him in God. Like a page in a book, we are hidden in Christ. We who were once alive to the world and dead to Christ, must see ourselves […]
I believe if God “opened our eyes” so we could witness a reality that goes beyond sight, we would see ourselves with Christ in the heavenlies surrounded by a host of angels (Colossians 3:1-3; Isaiah 6:1-3). This reality is as certain as the invisible systems and infrastructure that surround us—a hidden world of webs and […]
In life God seldom moves suddenly and often moves slowly. Of course, we desire flashes of insight which carry us forward quickly. But we must apply those insights and that can take years. That is the slowness of God. How we live with God’s slowness before Christ appears, Paul addresses in Colossians 3:1-3: “Since, then, […]