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 Agendas: Jesus
Jesus silently slips under the water, rising up not ‘clean from sin’ but anointed for ministry. He enters the river a relative unknown. He exits a man-god on a mission. He steps onto the dust of His homeland, named by God and filled by the Spirit, ready to fulfill the agenda He’s been given: toContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Jesus”
Hidden Agendas: Self
Welcome to the Season of Easter. The fifty days between Easter morning and Pentecost are a continuing call to believers to keep rejoicing in the event that is core to our faith – Jesus’ resurrection. To miss the significance of Christ’s resurrection is to miss the point, which is what Paul was trying to sayContinueContinue reading “Hidden Agendas: Self”