Oct 30, 2020
Heaven: Our Glorious New Home
The Mature Christian Anticipates the Return of Christ
Revelation 22:11b says, “[Let] the righteous still do right and the holy still be holy.” The young church at Thessalonica had many questions and concerns about the coming of Christ. Had they missed the rapture? Was there hope for the saved who had died already? They were spiritual infants in their t...
Jul 13, 2020
Heaven: Our Glorious New Home
The Mature Christian Hopes for the Rapture
Certainly, one of the most debated points of Christian theology is the idea of the rapture of the church—the catching away of God’s people at some future time in miraculous fashion. Great men and women of God have disagreed on this issue. Regardless of where you come down on the rapture issue, you s...
Jul 6, 2020
Heaven: Our Glorious New Home
The Mature Christian Anticipates the Resurrection, Part 2
In the city of Corinth in the Apostle Paul’s day, some in the church were proclaiming, “There is NO resurrection of the dead.” But Paul had an answer to this claim. Paul, in essence, replied: If there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised! And if Christ has not been...
Jun 23, 2020
Heaven: Our Glorious New Home
The Mature Christian Anticipates the Resurrection, Part 1
Paul tells us that we will receive resurrection power through becoming like Him in His death, “that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death” (Phil 3:10). We will therefore have the power to live and the power to hope. Paul says...
