In our last post (7C), we briefly laid out three principles that provide the Biblical basis for enjoying in the present our co-residence with Christ in Heaven. As I started late, and ran out of oomph, I really didn't give anything more than a teenincey teaser for principle #3. Let me encourage you to review with me these three principles, with a much closer look at the third: 1. My identity as a new (heavenly) creature IN CHRIST; because God has regenerated me as a member of

I honestly don't know how they even survive. I don't know how they are not utterly crushed under the weight of the grief, the devastating sorrow, the brutal and unrelenting melancholia of a loss such as ours or so many like ours that we've become aware of since June 23rd. I simply cannot imagine how the unsaved (those who do not know our Lord Jesus as their personal Savior) are able to even get out of bed in the morning, plant two feet on the floor, then place one foot in fro

The main point of my last post: There is a really BIG difference between being "on our way" somewhere, and actually BEING THERE. Maybe we could sum up this post with the saying, "there's no place like HOME." You may be living at a certain address here on Earth, but where is it you call "Home?" The fact is, according to scripture, our PRESENT citizenship, or commonwealth, is Heaven (Philippians 3:20). Our PRESENT resources, and our most treasured possessions are ALL in Heaven

"Are we there, yet???" Every parent who has ever packed the kids and all the luggage into the SUV and headed off on a long vacation knows well (and dreads) these four little words that, amazingly, kids never grow tired of repeating, over and over again, but which have the power to drive parents to utter distraction. And most of us are equally familiar with those other words, as well; spoken by the smooth, comfortable voice of our GPS, as we finally arrive at the end of our jo