Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward (Colossians 3:23-24, ESV). Does it seem discordant that we serve the Lord for a reward? Yet the Greek word for “reward” is used at least 50 times in the New Testament. […]
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8, ESV). A few weeks ago, I visited my cousin George Smith at the Dayton VA Hospice. Eternity was closing in for George, and we both knew this would be our final conversation on this earth.
After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! (v. 1, ESV) An open door. We all want open doors — for a job, for opportunities, and for our desires. Open doors mean invitations and welcoming. The open doors we have walked through tell our story of success or distress. In Revelation
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Hope does not disappoint (Romans 5:5, NASB). Greg Laurie is the 71-year-old pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California. He’s also a well-known evangelist. If you watched the movie The Jesus Revolution, you learned the roots of Laurie’s faith at the beginning of the Jesus Movement in the early 1970s. In 2008, Laurie lost
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Dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day (2 Peter 3:8, NIV). What?! Interruption #1,001,209 today? Wasn’t the last Interruption #1208? What happened? Please look at the date. It’s April 1, or April Fools’ Day! No, I don’t consider the readers of this
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If we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience (Romans 8:25, ESV). My first day in heaven will be busy. There will be a joyous reunion with my parents and I will look for pastor friends who passed before me – with huge hugs all around. (I realize that one
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Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:1). Right now! Angels, cherubim, and the righteous already in heaven – all worship God. The author of Hebrews indicates
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For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18 ESV At a memorial service, I heard the pastor say, “What is heaven like?” Then he said, “Consider your best thought ever and multiply it 10,000 times 10,000 and you
More and more focus will be given to the book of Revelation in the coming years. Whereas many of us have ignored the book as unknowable, when the actual historical events foreshadowed in the book of Revelation begin to happen, we will have those “Uh, oh” moments and think, “I remember reading that in the
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