Bringing Light to Life
There is a suddenly with God. In a moment An eye will twinkle. The end will arrive. We will be raised. And transformed. Perishable body clothed with the imperishable. Mortal body clothed with immortality. Death swallowed in victory. That future, in Christ, is certain. And sudden. There is a slowly with God. Between now And […]
How would you respond if the miraculous invaded your life? That theoretical question became a reality for Zechariah–the father of John the Baptist. One day while he was carrying out his job as a priest, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared before him (Luke 1:5-25). How did Zechariah respond? He couldn’t have been more […]
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 […]
We are living in a massive cultural and political revolution raging across the United States. Anarchy reigns in numerous cities. Peaceful and justifiable protests erupted into violence as radical groups intent on inflicting pain and destruction seized the opportunity. As I write, Seattle officials handed over a six block section of their city, including a […]
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 […]