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Tag Archives: heaven
Happy Thanksgiving!
Our Thanksgiving Tree (beautifully decorated and photographed by my wife Trudy). On Thanksgiving Day we’ll add strips of paper with our family’s 2022 “I’m thankful fors” artfully calligraphed onto them (also Trudy’s work). And, yes, soon thereafter the tree will … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Quips and Quotes
Tagged family, gratitude, heaven, holidays, love, Psalm 107:1, Thanksgiving, tree
70 Comments
Forgetting What Lies Behind
Photo by Michael Atkins “Forgetting what lies behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.” ~Philippians 3:13-14 † Note: British American actor, biographer, film producer Douglas … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Douglas Gresham, eternity, heaven, Jesus, loss, Philippians 3:13-14
11 Comments
Hanging From the Ledge of Heaven
Harold Lloyd in Safety Last When I was a young man, I began searching for the meaning of life. Along the way, I wrote a travel journal, a mix of prose and poetry, and labelled it Fool’s Odyssey. I was still … Continue reading
Posted in Fool's Odyssey, For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Memoir
Tagged eternity, heaven, hell, meaning of life, purpose, young man
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Are You Madly in Love With God?
Artist unknown There’s an old saying that goes, “If Jesus isn’t Lord of all, he isn’t Lord at all.” Does that sound too radical? Well, you know what, Jesus is a radical sort of guy. But think about it another … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged discipleship, God, heaven, Jesus, love, salvation
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Only the Beginning
“And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but shall raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged eternal life, future, God, heaven, hope, Jesus, John 6:39-40
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Our Human Experience
Thought for the Week I woke up at 4 a.m. this morning, and did what I always do when I wake up early: Obsessed. Sometimes I obsess about big life issues. In this case it was about a minor, recurring … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged eternity, God, heaven, insomnia, obsession, thought for the week
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Strangers in a Strange Land
Have you ever felt a sense of incompleteness, a longing for something beyond your earthly reach? ~The Wishing Map “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Exodus 2:22, heaven, incomplete, longing, stranger, The Wishing Map
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A Childlike Faith
Photo Credit: Santa Monica, United States – Lauren Lulu Taylor (unsplash.com) “A complete life is the life of a child. When I am fully conscious of my awareness of Christ, there is something wrong. It is the sick person who … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged childlike, Christ, discipleship, heaven, Jesus, Matthew 18:3, trust
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My Experiment in Becoming Human
Give and You Will Receive Knowing and doing aren’t the same thing. In my last Experiment in Becoming Human, I wrote about ceasing to try and get something from others, and being set free to give. “In quietness and confidence … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Memoir, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged giving, heaven, human, Jesus, Luke 6:38, receiving
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On Earth as It Is in Heaven
We’re all a little bit racist. And sexist. And ageist. And dozens of other-things-ist. An ist is simply a bias or leaning, either away from or toward something. We lean toward what we know, and away from what we don’t. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, For Pastors and Teachers, Memoir
Tagged black, church, ethnic, heaven, multicultural, racism, white
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