Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven, when the whole of Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
04141 – Going to Heaven
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04052 – God’s New Temple
Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet. from Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
03851 – Western Churches and Heaven/Hell
Western churches continue to think about "going to heaven" or "going to hell" as the framework for the Gospel, but the Bible Story is not about us going somewhere but the Creator God coming to live with us.
03059 – Look at Jesus!
If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you're not just a spectator, but...
02530 – Our Calling?
Our calling is not simply to believe the good news; it is to become good news people.
02194 – Our Present Shapes Our Future
What you do in the present--by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself--will last into God's future. from Surprised by...
01800 – What’s in the Bible?
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
01362 – Paul and Resurrection
Paul is the classic example of the early Christian who has woven resurrection so thoroughly into his thinking and practice that if you take it away the whole thing unravels in your hands. from The Challenge of Easter
00629 – Christ’s Resurrection Determines Who We Are
People today sometimes talk about Easter as if the great message is that there really is life after death after all. That’s a very modern perception, which would occur only to somebody who had been brought up with the secularist denials of life after death. If that’s...
00628 – Commissioning Jesus’ Followers after His Resurrection
It is extremely strange, and extremely interesting, that the stories of Jesus’ resurrection never mention the future hope of the Christian… Instead, we find a commission within the present world: “Jesus is risen, therefore you have work ahead of you.” The stories are...