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Within Reach
Growing up in a Pentecostal church, I learned about heaven from a very young age. One of the earliest hymns I remember was “Mansion Over The Hilltop,” which describes the ultimate in delayed gratification. I have very little now, but once I die and go to heaven, I’ll have a mansion, “a gold one that’s…
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Repent…
I think for many Americans, the word repent conjures up images of a wild-eyed, disheveled man yelling and threatening damnation and hellfire. Of course, we don’t have any audio or video from the first century, and John the Baptist certainly comes close to the stereotypical street preacher, but I doubt that the exhortations of John…
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The Kingdom of God
When Jesus traveled throughout Judea, wherever he went he talked about the kingdom of God. In fact, it was his main message, and the message he committed to his followers—the good news about the kingdom of God. Nowadays if you were to ask 100 people what the main message of the church is, I doubt…
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The Hero Of Your Story
Every life is a story, and we take for granted that each of us is the hero of our own story. But what does that mean? And what might it mean for someone else to be the hero of our story? We all know who the hero (or heroine) is. That’s the person who gets…
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Holiness
It is very difficult to describe holiness without circularity. To be holy means to be set apart for sacred use, but, of course, “sacred” is just another word for holy. Certainly one important characteristic of holiness is set-apart-ness, separation from others of the same kind. The first use of a word meaning “made holy” in…
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