Transformation: Step One in Thy Kingdom Come
Change is the big C in the formula of life, a chaotic constant in the status quo we both desire …
Author Archives: Nikolas Larum
What Is in Your Hand?
Among many of its ills, poverty is blinding. Need can grow to such heights that all one sees is hunger. Sad as this is for the millions who live in actual poverty, it is worse for those of us with full bellies. I have caught myself—more times than I care to admit—sliding from Mount Thankfulness down Not Enough Hill into Nothing Pit. Economic poverty is a fact. Mental poverty is a prison.
Love Everlasting: A Practical Theology of Time
Love Everlasting: A Practical Theology of Time coming soon!
God Inhabits Eternity – The End from the Beginning (Part 6)
God calls the end from the beginning and calls Himself the beginning and the end. Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha …
God Has a Plan, We Can Be Part of It – The End from the Beginning (Part 5)
The account of Esther provides a dramatic illustration of the interplay between God’s plan, His foreknowledge and predestination of us, …
Understanding Predestination – The End from the Beginning (Part 4)
Like foreknowledge, predestination is a simple term made obese with theological lard. This is perhaps most evident in the “UL” …
Foreknowledge and Fate – The End from the Beginning (Part 3)
Christianity and fatalism are diametrically opposed faiths. Hope is the anchor of the Christian life. In the fatalist mindset, if …
Evolution and Time – The End from the Beginning (Part 2)
Most modern cosmologies assume as a primary condition of the Big Bang that the universe had no edge or center. …
The End from the Beginning
Time challenges our faith. Indeed, it is difficult to prove faith outside of time. A primary discipline of the spiritual …
The Great White Throne and the New Heaven and Earth – Life in the Age (Part 9)
Works-based salvation is a belief as old as sin. Mankind’s first stratagem to make things right for themselves was to sew leaves together to hide the nakedness sin had exposed. This is the works of the flesh endeavoring to produce spiritual respectability. Their next act was to hide from God when He came to meet them so He wouldn’t discover their nakedness. Note the order, sin consciousness led to acts of self-righteousness that allayed the shame between husband and wife, but gave no relief in the presence of God.
The Bible Philes 