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JUST THINKING: It's Real
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I was just thinking about a conversation I had in 1970 with Rod Little, a soldier I was stationed with in South Korea. We talked about various subjects from time to time, but that day our conversation turned to the death of Christ. He said something that still reverberates in my memory. He said, “I wish I could believe that was real.” I assured him that the death and resurrection were certainly real. I wanted to carry that talk farther, but Rod was called to handle a situation, disrupting ...
STAND FIRM: Heaven is Better Than We Can Imagine
This article may get me in trouble, but please read all the way through before making a conclusion on my fitness for pastoral ministry. In transparency, I’m just going to lay my cards out on the able here. Until recently, I haven’t always thought Heaven sounded all that great. Maybe I’m the only one, but in my life in church (30 years as a believer, and 25 years of preaching) my thoughts...