Thoughts on Scripture and life
for the glory of Jesus Christ
Heaven, Our Home
In Heaven, God will surely and finally overwhelm our heartbreaks. God will knit closed the wounds of war, schism, disease, and brokenness. God will erase the scars of sin; sorrow will reign no more.
Seeing Heaven in the Face of Death
Thus, eternal life is the end and fulfillment of all good things, for which God has purchased us through his Son. This is the goal on which our gaze should be fixed throughout our earthly pilgrimage. This is the treasure that we should unceasingly desire. This is the hour and the blessing to which all the plans and efforts of our lives should be inclined. ...This is our true country, our permanent city, in which our citizenship has been acquired by the merit of the death of Jesus Christ. This is the home that we long for, amidst the banishments, the weariness, the dangerous fears of this valley of misery and the shadow of death. This is the safe refuge and the beautiful harbor toward which we sail amidst so many waves and storms that constantly trouble the world. This is the blessed land where we will dwell by means of death.
Weekly Roundup: Suicide, Heaven, Sin, and Authority
An answer to suicide, unashamed to seek heaven, taking sin seriously, and how authority authors life.
Weekly Roundup: failure, suffering saints, our dying hour, counseling attitude
When Christian leaders fail, penal substitutionary atonement for suffering saints, preparing for our dying hour, and the essential attitude of biblical counseling.
I Will Glory in My Redeemer by Enfield
I Will Glory in My Redeemer by Enfield
Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken by Bob Kauflin
Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken by Bob Kauflin
To a Saint on the Edge of Heaven
Hebrews 11:13-16 The Faith That Waits - John Shim
The Faith That Waits - John Shim
Ephesians 2:7 — The Glorious Grace of God
If you're a Christian who has tasted the depths of God, the wonders of His love, and the glories of His character in the face of Christ, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Ephesians 2:6 — New Life and True Life
It wouldn't take much to prove Christianity wrong.
Any atheist, any evolutionist, any Jew, any religionist knows it. If I were them, and I were to set out to prove that Jesus, the Bible, Christianity, etc. were all a lie, I would go for the jugular. I would go for the one thing upon which all of Christianity stands, the one thing which validates all other hopes, the one claim of the Bible, about which all other truths orbit.
For if I could show that this one thing, that one doctrine, were not true, it would prove definitively, once and for all, that Jesus Christ and everything associated with Him, was a sham, a myth, a lie.
What is that doctrine? It's not the literal six-day creation. It's not the coming judgment of the world. It's not the existence of miracles. It's not the existence of Satan. It's not hell.
It's the resurrection - the real, literal, bodily, physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.