The New, Old Commandment

1 John 2:1-17 For those of you who’ve been around long enough, you may remember New Coke. In 1985 the Coca-Cola Company came up with what to this day is considered the biggest marketing blunder in American consumer product history. At the time, Coke was the undisputed...

Confession

James 5:13-16, 19-20. As it relates to Christian faith, few acts are more maligned and misunderstood than the act of confession. We tend to see confession as little more than an acknowledgment that we’ve done something wrong. We cheated on the test, we looked at the...

Heaven Part III: Heaven!

Assorted Scripture Verses, Excerpts from Heaven, by Randy Alcorn If I were to dig as deep as possible into the subject of Heaven this blog would soon become a book. And although we’ve talked over the last few weeks about how the Bible can tend to be elusive in...

Heaven Part II: Hell

Ezekiel 28:12-17, Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43, 25:31-46, Mark 9:43-48 Something we may not spend much time considering in our faith walk is that to fully appreciate the promise of the joy of Heaven, we need to understand the reality of hell. In recent years, there have...

Heaven Part 1: Death

Luke 23:39-43, 1 Corinthians 15:46-49 When we think about the things that are absolutely foundational to our faith in Jesus, anticipating eternity in Heaven is a biggie. The Bible tells us that we are to live life on this earth with a Heavenly perspective which sounds...