The Unexpected Story No One Would Write Christmas is very odd! If you were inventing a religion to reveal the heart of God, or at least your specific god, to capture hearts and change the world, you wouldn’t start in a cave that smelled of animals. You wouldn’t choose a teenage peasant girl as your…
Tag Archives: heaven
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Apr
The message of the Bible is the Christian Gospel – it’s one of hope, grace, and transformation. At its core, the Gospel answers life’s most profound questions: Why are we here? What went wrong? How can it be made right? And what happens after death? Which way to heaven? Within the biblical framework, the Gospel…
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Apr
Heaven and hell – what are they? Though various concepts of the afterlife are prevalent throughout different cultures and belief systems, most have a line of demarcation between the destination for those who are “good” and follow certain guidelines and those who are “evil” and do not. How are we to understand this line? Why…
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Aug
A heartbroken young man prays for the life of his innocent little child. In danger of being caught for the last time, a lifetime criminal prays for his escape from investigators. A single mother barely staying afloat in her deluge of poverty prays for help and relief from her financial circumstances. A man, at the…
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Of those who believe in heaven, most people think they are deserving of it, but do good people go to heaven? Most people think of themselves as good people. They believe that they will find themselves in heaven one day because, compared to all the wicked people, like Hitler and Stalin, they have not murdered millions of people;…
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Aug
People often say with some level of dejection that life is not fair. But who promised that it would be? Who promised a paradise free from pain? Who promised that there would be justice? If we were to compact the totality of what’s real to the world readily available, then life is definitely not fair….
