Heaven. What pictures pop into your mind when you read the word, heaven? Angels, pearly gates, throne room, streets of gold, joyful reunions? And you’d have listed many of the Bible’s descriptions of heaven.1 How about ‘clouds and sky’? We may hesitate and question the location of heaven – is it really ‘up’? I mean,ContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Eternity”
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Hidden in Christ: Things Above
Years ago, I worked in Children’s Ministry, and for a short season I helped lead worship – not because I sang well, but because I was willing to hop around to some awesome music videos. LOL. And the best part of these recordings were the hand motions that went with the lyrics. When we learnedContinueContinue reading “Hidden in Christ: Things Above”
This Hope: The Promise of Heaven
Once in a while, something happens that forever changes us – it becomes one of those epic life markers where everything we do and have done is categorized as “before ___” or “after ___.” We’ve all lived through a recent epical moment: the pandemic. My mind automatically separates memories as either before or after theContinueContinue reading “This Hope: The Promise of Heaven”
Inhabit: God Dwells in Light
Have you ever stopped to wonder why sunbeams shining through a cloud make us think of heaven? Photo by Timo Volz on Unsplash Every. Single. Time. I see the sun’s rays radiating through the clouds, and I imagine heaven breaking in. And, if I let my thoughts move further down that rabbit trail, my mind’sContinueContinue reading “Inhabit: God Dwells in Light”
Inhabit: God’s Dwelling Place
It turns out my word of the year, dwell, has a few meanings, so for this series we’ll focus on one of them: inhabit. The Hebrew word most used to mean inhabit is yashab, defined as to sit, remain, or dwell–as in to have one’s abode. Translated as dwell over 400 times in Scripture, yashabContinueContinue reading “Inhabit: God’s Dwelling Place”