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What Is in Your Hand?

February 6, 2022

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.

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Love Everlasting: A Practical Theology of Time

December 29, 2019

Love Everlasting: A Practical Theology of Time coming soon!

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God Inhabits Eternity – The End from the Beginning (Part 6)

October 5, 2019

God calls the end from the beginning and calls Himself the beginning and the end. Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha …

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God Has a Plan, We Can Be Part of It – The End from the Beginning (Part 5)

September 28, 2019

The account of Esther provides a dramatic illustration of the interplay between God’s plan, His foreknowledge and predestination of us, …

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Understanding Predestination – The End from the Beginning (Part 4)

September 21, 2019

Like foreknowledge, predestination is a simple term made obese with theological lard. This is perhaps most evident in the “UL” …

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Foreknowledge and Fate – The End from the Beginning (Part 3)

September 14, 2019

Christianity and fatalism are diametrically opposed faiths. Hope is the anchor of the Christian life. In the fatalist mindset, if …

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Evolution and Time – The End from the Beginning (Part 2)

September 7, 2019

Most modern cosmologies assume as a primary condition of the Big Bang that the universe had no edge or center. …

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The End from the Beginning

August 31, 2019

Time challenges our faith. Indeed, it is difficult to prove faith outside of time. A primary discipline of the spiritual …

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The Great White Throne and the New Heaven and Earth – Life in the Age (Part 9)

August 24, 2019

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.

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The Father’s Kingdom – Life in the Age (Part 8)

August 17, 2019

Wolves eating with lambs and lions eating straw like oxen are hallmarks of the land of Israel during the Millennial …

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  • What Is in Your Hand?
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  • God Has a Plan, We Can Be Part of It – The End from the Beginning (Part 5)
  • Understanding Predestination – The End from the Beginning (Part 4)

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