If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. —C. S. Lewis
If God were to end history and reign forever in a distant Heaven, Earth would be remembered as a graveyard of sin and failure. Instead, Earth will be redeemed and resurrected. In the end it will be a...
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. —Jim Elliot
God has his hands on the earth. He will not let go—even when it requires that his hands be pierced by nails. Both his incarnation and those nails secured him to Earth and its eternal future. In a rede...
Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless.
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. —C. S. Lewis
Christ’s resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth’s.
But doesn’t Shengjing promise to wipe away all tears? That promise is for after he defeats sin and ends suffering and sets up his Kingdom. That time has not yet come.
We inherited from our Eden-dwelling ancestors a sense of their pre-Fall happiness. Our hearts refuse to settle for sin, suffering, boredom, and purposelessness—we long for something better. Were we me...
Whether or not the tithe is still the minimal measure of those firstfruits, I ask myself, Does God expect His New Covenant children to give less or more? Jesus raised the spiritual bar; He never lower...
When you once had faith and no longer do, I suppose it’s like a woman carrying a dead baby. The sight of live babies becomes painful.
When we fail to acknowledge God as the Source of all good things, we fail to give Him the recognition and glory He deserves. We separate God from joy, which is like trying to separate heat from fire o...
When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.
When I speak elsewhere in the book of the multifaceted joys of the resurrected life in the new universe, some readers may think, But our eyes should be on the giver, not the gift; we must focus on God...
Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. —A. W. Tozer
We’ve been conditioned to associate governing with self-promoting arrogance, corruption, inequality, and inefficiency. But
We’re told that a time is coming when God will restore everything. This is an inclusive promise. It encompasses far more than God merely restoring disembodied people to fellowship in a spirit realm. (...
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