   Several years ago I attended a football game which was the first event in a community’s weekend-long all-school reunion.  The home team won the game, so the weekend was off to a great start.  It was an exciting game, with the young quarterback completing several long passes.    After the game, everyone […]
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   (…continued)  Years ago I visited an elderly lady named Hilda in a nursing home.  In her last days she would often be heard singing the old hymn I’m but a Stranger Here, Heaven is My Home.  She would sing that hymn over and over again, from memory, even though it had not been in her church’s hymnals for
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   Years ago there was a great emphasis on heaven in the church’s preaching, praying, and singing.  In the last few decades there has been a movement toward an increased focus on the church being active in the world right now, and that is good.  Unfortunately, along with that focus on the here and now, there has been
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Joni Eareckson Tada (1949- ) was injured in a diving accident in 1967, and has been a quadriplegic ever since. She has survived stage 3 breast cancer and a malignant tumor. Now at age 76 she lives with unrelenting, severe pain from arthritis. She has had many reasons to doubt the wisdom and goodness of
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By Marshal Segal, March 27, 2022, at: http://www.desiringgod.org ******************************* Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! –Revelation 22:20    The last prayer in the Bible is also one of its shortest; and yet it’s layered with heartache and anticipation, with distress and hope, with agony and joy. Can you imagine the apostle John savoring those three words,
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By Rick Warren at:  http://www.pastorrick.com    Heaven changes everything about how you live today. If you’re headed to Heaven, then that reality should impact how you live here on earth.    Your value system changes. Instead of living for the here and now, you’ll live for eternity. You can also live knowing your future
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     (…continued) Just as the end of the story for that woman was good, the rest of the Bible promises a good end to ALL of our stories. All who believe in Jesus will receive eternal life in God’s heavenly home, in a life without suffering, pain, or death. Sometimes we
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   Bill looked in the phone book (remember those?), randomly picked out a church, called the number, and got a hold of me. He said he was 49 years old, homebound with ALS, and was rapidly losing his strength and coordination. He could still talk, and he wanted to have a conversation with someone
“My Sweet Lord” George Harrison, 1970 My sweet lord; Hmm, my lord; Hmm, my lord I really want to see you Really want to be with you Really want to see you lord But it takes so long, my lord My sweet lord; Hmm, my lord; Hmm, my lord I really want to know you
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     (…continued) We could talk about the purpose of the church and the Biblical theology of worship and how there is something in all humans that reaches out for something beyond themselves, and all that. But worship is, at its center, simply a weekly remembrance of God. Is church the only
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