No Guesswork If you could only have one thing to hang onto guiding your future, what would you choose? Here are some possibilities: money, education, friendships, position, fear, goals. These are a few of the choices that drive people. I suggest all are subservient to the most important one we can have. One that is necessary for all the others […]
To Heaven and Back If anyone tries to sell you a round-trip ticket to heaven, or a book telling of their journey, save your money. In the last three decades or so, there has been an epidemic of best-selling books describing what is supposed to have been a trip to heaven and back. Most have been categorized as non-fiction, meaning […]
Condemned Or Free This morning I was in Romans 8 again; one of my favorite chapters in all of Scripture because it’s so rich in promises, hope and assurance of our standing as believers in Jesus Christ. And I was reminded in verses 1 and 2, that “There is NOW no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, for […]
Empty or Full A glass can hold both oil and water at the same time and they will not mix. There is an inverse relationship between them, totaling 100%, the more oil, the less water and vice versa. A person’s life can hold both humility and pride at the same time, with the same inverse calculation. The problem for those […]
No Value In business, there’s what’s called the value proposition. It is how a business describes and positions its products to serve its customers better than its competitors. The consumer must discern between all the marketing claims of “newest”, “best”, “easiest” and all the other descriptors intended to sway your decision to part with your cash. The wise investor/buyer looks […]
Mo Bettah In our last post, we looked at compare and contrast (c & c) examples from Scripture. In this one, we are looking at c & c with respect to heaven and its alternative. At some point, not long after Paul met Jesus on the road to Damascus, he “…was caught up to the third heaven…caught up into Paradise.” […]