The Bible tells us we are pilgrims, strangers, aliens and ambassadors working far from home. Our citizenship is in Heaven. But we’ve become so attached to this world that we live for the wrong kingdom...
Suppose churches taught that God is happy and that he is the source of all happiness. Suppose Christians believed that God calls them to view work, play, music, food, and drink as gracious gifts from...
Some of the best portrayals I’ve seen of the eternal Heaven are in children’s books. Why? Because they depict earthly scenes, with animals and people playing, and joyful activities. The books for adul...
Religion professor Albert Wolters, in Creation Regained, writes, [God] hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands—in fact, he sacrifices his...
Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. —C. S. Lewis
Our society holds to youthfulness with a white-knuckled grip. Ultimately it’s all in vain. But the gospel promises us eternal youthfulness in God’s presence.
Not the way it’s supposed to be. Evil is exactly that—a fundamental and troubling departure from goodness. The Bible uses the word evil to describe anything that violates God’s moral will.
Many come short, being satisfied with the works of God rather than hungering for and reaching on to God Himself. —A. W. Tozer
Looking back, Ruby said, I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You.
If all the Bibles in America were simultaneously dusted, the sun would be obscured for a week. It’s not a magic talisman that works without being read. A Bible does us no harm as long as it remains cl...
He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how...
God the Father (who now pleads with mankind to accept the reconciliation that Christ’s death secured for all) and God the Son (our appointed Judge, who wept over Jerusalem) will in a final judgment ex...
We don’t believe ‘in the power of prayer,’ but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers. —Burk Parsons The
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving.
The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do. Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they f...
The principle is timeless: If Christ is not Lord over our money and possessions, he is not our Lord.
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. —Louis Pasteur
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell. —J. C. Ryle
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV) What does Scripture mean when it tells us to fix our eyes on what w...
Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption...