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It’s hard to imagine that there could be any greater, more glorious destiny than the one promised by Jesus to the repentant criminal hanging next to Him on a Roman cross in the last hours of both of their lives in this world, wherein Jesus assures him “today you will be with Me in Paradise”.  […]

We celebrated last week both the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, wherein after living the perfectly righteous and sinless life necessary for a man or woman to enter God’s unmediated presence in Heaven, He died on a Roman cross, taking upon Himself the wrath and judgement, the divine justice of God deserved

I am posting this on the day we celebrate each year as Good Friday. It is called Good Friday, despite the fact that everything that occurred on this day over 2000 years ago can only be described as evil; the betrayal of Jesus by Judas to the religious authorities, the unjust arrest, trial and conviction

It is the evening prior to the Jewish Passover, approximately 2000 years ago.  Jesus has completed His public ministry and has been spending the last few days of His life with His apostles, instructing them of His approaching death and how they are to carry on His work after His death.  He enjoys the Passover

Do you know the love of God? Do you personally, intimately and experientially know the width and length and depth and height of the love of Christ which passes (human) knowledge. The Apostle Paul prays for Christians in Ephesians 3:14-19 that we would.  He does so for two essential reasons. One reason is because he

One of the most unsettling and even terrifying passages in the Bible, at least for me, is found in Matthew 7:21-23, near the conclusion of what is known as The Sermon on the Mount. Here Jesus states, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will

“ Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began…” (Titus 1:1-2). “Therefore, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you

Most people do not find it irrational or unrealistic to believe that there is or will one day be a world – a reality – a realm – a state of being in which life will be significantly more interesting, more exciting, more fulfilling than this life.  We long for a world where human flourishing

And the grief goes on. In what the Bible refers to as this present evil world, grief, sorrow and sadness goes on and on and on and on – and on (Galatians 1:4).  This time the grief and sorrow originated from my esteemed alma matter, Michigan State University.  Three bright young students were senselessly murdered

In John 12:25, Jesus informs us of the necessity that we hate our life in this world if we are to gain eternal life, the glorious life with God for which mankind was created.  Hate is an emotionally charged word that has a broad range of usage throughout the Bible.  It ranges from having enmity,