Persistent: Love endures all things

I woke up to a strange post-apocalyptic morning yesterday; the sickly, brown-yellow light filtered through the mixture of fire smoke and morning fog. It seems that on every front we are experiencing mounting pressure: medical, social, emotional, political, and now, meteorological. How do we persevere when the light at the end of a tunnel may just be another fire starting?

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Nathan Baird
Resurrection: A Demonstration with Death

Why should Jesus be right about the lesser things if He was proved completely wrong in the greater? It is perfectly natural therefore that both Christians and anti-Christians should regard the question of whether the Resurrection really took place as the fundamental issue on which the whole Christian claim really depends.

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Prepare to Suffer Joyfully

In Matthew 5:1-12 Jesus addresses a specific kind of human suffering, the kind resulting from the conflict between the kingdom of Heaven’s culture and the kingdoms of human culture. Putting it mildly, these have never been in my “Top 10 Bible Promises to Claim”. Suffering for me has been something to avoid. But Jesus doesn’t present suffering as an option, he presents it as a joyful inevitability: “Blessed are your WHEN…”.

I think it is time to reconsider this blessing and start preparing to receive it.

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Judas, Greed and Worldly Sorrow

…When I kept reading however, my friend’s question was actually related to Judas’s eternal destiny: “is he in heaven or hell?" Looking into the New Testament to answer this question took me on an adventure of discovery, one that has given me greater clarity regarding Judas’s role in the gospel accounts and a new understanding of the difference between Godly Sorrow and Worldly Sorrow

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