Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.
When Christ died on the cross for us, he said, It is finished (John 19:30). The Greek word translated it is finished was commonly written across certificates of debt when they were canceled. It meant...
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...
When Yesu is everything to you, it is impossible not to speak of him.
When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.
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.
Yes, Satan rebelled. Yes, Adam and Eve freely chose sin, and with it death and suffering. And yes, the all-powerful, happy God could have intervened to prevent those choices. If that intervention woul...
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...
Wisdom begins with the humility to say there’s a great deal I don’t understand.
Christ’s resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth’s.
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. —C. S. Lewis
For every American who believes he’s going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they’re going to Heaven.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. —Jim Elliot
If we take God’s Word seriously, we should avoid debt when possible. In those rare cases where we go into debt, we should make every effort to get out as soon as we can. We should never undertake debt...
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
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not. C. S. Lewis
Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we’re smart, we’ll live not for the dot, but...
Life on earth matters not because it’s the only life we have, but precisely because it isn’t—it’s the beginning of a life that will continue without end.
Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy.[717]
One hundred percent of royalties from Safely Home go to help persecuted Christians and to spread the gospel in their countries.
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