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Was It His or Her Time?
Recently, my brother-in-law witnessed an accident. A fourteen year old boy came flying down a street to a blind corner on an e-bike. He was from out-of-town and consequently didn’t know the street or apparently see the stop sign. He flew through the intersection and was hit by a car and thrown quite a distance. He didn’t make it. My brother-in-law was quite disturbed by what he saw.…
Fear God
God has been my friend and my mentor since childhood. God has never done me wrong. Even in His seeming inaction, I have found hindsight eventually as to why He didn’t act. With that said, it is hard for me to have fear of God in the classic way we understand fear. As part of a summer Bible reading program that I am doing in my congregation, we have recently read Luke 12 which has provided the…
Entering Through the Narrow Gate
Perhaps one should not dislike a passage in the Bible. Yet, I cannot like the message of what I am writing about today. It is good to know. It is a regrettable truth. I doubt that God is happy about it. The passage that I am speaking about comes from the mouth of Jesus toward the end of the Sermon on the Mount. It says: 13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that…
Do You Feel Hopeless?
At some point in your life the future might have seemed full of possibilities. You had dreams and they seemed reachable. But as time ran on life got in the way. You had troubles. Things didn’t pan out. It became obvious that your vision of the future was not going to happen. Perhaps you can add to this your concerns about the world in general. The promise of unending human progress seems fenced…
And This Is Eternal Life
Eternal life can be seen as a conscious existence in an ideal place with an ideal body without end. Jesus, at the beginning of His “high priestly” prayer in John 17, gives a different perspective. “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is…
The Current Kingdom of God
“The Kingdom of God is near”, that is what John of the Baptist declared. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like…”, that is what Jesus often said. Are they the same thing? What exactly is being referred to? What is “near”? It would be nice is the Bible had a glossary. Then you could know for sure the meaning of every term. As it stands you largely have to depend on context to figure out certain…
Exploring Bioengineering for Immortality: A Biblical Perspective
Recent articles in the New York Times about the pursuit of immortality through bioengineering have caught my attention. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/magazine/eternal-life-longevity-world-leaders.html The very rich have invested large sums into longevity research to try to beat or at least delay the great equalizer–death. Is this a fool’s errand or could it produce some fruit? I would first…
Dying Well: The Stewardship of Our Health and Time in Our Final Years
It is tough to accept that dying is something we have to do. I would go so far as to call it part of my God-given mission. God has kept me on this planet for a long list of things that He wants to do through me. Eventually it will be enough, and the remainder of God’s mission will be carried on by other people. All I have to do at that point is to let this sin damaged body go to the grave. If I…
How Old Will We Appear In Eternity?
We are used to the process of aging. We start as little babies, somewhere we hit our maximum as far as strength, health, and appearance, maybe intelligence peaks at another time, and then comes the long downgrade until death. Unless we die early, that is the course of it. In other articles in this blog I make the case that we will have a body of some sort in whatever place we end up. There is a…
The Bible's Bad News
Before we are exposed to the Bible, a person’s view of themselves and probably of other people is that we are basically good. Similarly, most people want to believe in existence after physical death. We also want it to be good. So many passively believe that there is some sort of Heaven or other favorable existence awaiting them. It is very natural. I want to believe it too. The Bible is meant…
Your Eternal Self
It is admittedly hard to conceptualize what “eternal” means. We can think of a long time, but not eternal. I sometimes use a math concept to get people to understand what they are. It helps. God is like a line in geometry. I line goes infinitely in both directions. When Moses encountered God in the burning bush, he asked for God’s name: 14 God said to Moses, “Yahweh” And he said, “Say this to…
Saying What You Need to Say Before You Die
This blog concerns itself mostly with what happens after death. I say “mostly” because what happens after death does have major implications on what should happen before death. There are a number of things we should talk about with people who matter to us. In that list I would include that we should be reconciled with those from whom we are estranged, communicate our love to people, and…
Is There Such a Thing as Purgatory?
Yes. But we call it “seminary”. That is just a joke. The doctrine of purgatory, which is unique to the Roman Catholic Church is no joke. I think it is somewhat dangerous. But let’s look at the origin, andthe proof, which is very thin. The idea is that there is a place and a period in your existence where you have been saved by the grace of Christ but to reach your Heavenly state of perfection…
Will Good People Be Lost?
There are a couple of things that God reveals in the Bible that are tough to accept. One is the severity of the punishment for sin. Sin can manifest itself in people in ways that are not that destructive. Still, unless it is atoned for by Jesus minor sins are as damning as major ones, and damnation is serious and permanent. The other difficult thing is that some fairly serious criminals can come…
How Do You Thank God for Eternal Life?
Next week in the United States we are celebrating Thanksgiving. For many people it is time to get together with family, eat too much, maybe go to a parade and then watch football. There isn’t much thankful reflection. But the national holiday was established by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 for thankful reflection. Because God has reached me, I have a connection to Jesus. I know that I am saved by His…
What Is Satan?
Satan is a name found in several places in the Bible and many places in popular culture. He had some pseudonyms: the Devil, Lucifer, the Deceiver, the Accuser, Beelzebub, among others. I would like to deal with the question of what is this being. We will only touch on such tangential questions as what is he like, what can he do, and where is he. Let’s start with a prominent assumption: Satan is…
God's Declaration In Isaiah 66
Looks into the future within the Old Testament are common. That is what prophecy is. We are living far enough in the future from the time of Isaiah that almost everything in it we can examine through hindsight. Almost. Isaiah had warnings for the people of Israel and for the surrounding nations. It has all come true to my knowledge. It is so accurate that skeptics conclude that Isaiah had to be…