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...
What is the Gospel?
The common question what is the gospel probably should start with who is the gospel centered on? The gospel is centered on the person of God, through the person of Jesus Christ. You see Jesus Christ has been commissioned by God the Father to bring to himself a kingdom, and by bringing to himself a k...
I'm the godliest person I know, now what?
I can sort of laugh momentarily at the question I'm the godliest person I know, what do I do now? But in reality, that can be the case. You might be a believer finding yourself in a local church where there just isn't an emphasis on the preached Word, there isn't an emphasis on discipleship and on g...
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...