EXPECTING HIS COMING In the 1987 NCAA Regional Finals, LSU was leading Indiana by eight points with only a few minutes left in the game. As is often the case with a team in the lead, LSU began playing a different ball game. The television announcer pointed out that the LSU players were beginning to …
IN YOUR FACE, THEOLOGIANS October 28, 1992 – My twelve year old son Ryan walks out and gets the newspaper. I am sitting in the other room, but I can hear him leafing through the paper, quietly reading aloud. He reads a column and then adds his own summary and editorial: “These theologians predicted the …
SIGNS OF CHRIST’S COMING I am no longer looking for the signs of Christ’s coming; I am now listening for the sound of his coming: the trumpet of God; I’ve seen all the signs I need to see. From T. Parker, O’Fallon, Missouri
GOING TO THE RESURRECTION A young evangelistic preacher came upon a farmer who was working in his field. The preacher, concerned about the farmer’s soul, asked the man: “Are you laboring in the vineyard of the Lord my friend?” The farmer, without even looking up answered, “Nope, these here are beans.” “No that’s not what …
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WHEN CHRIST RETURNS When Christ returns, how awful to know that all of it was true, and that it is too late to do anything about it. — C.S. Lewis
DIES ARAE That day of wrath, that dreadful day When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinners stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? When, shriveling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the …
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ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE Writer Ken Boa says, “If any of us would be transported to heaven for even a five minute visit, we would never be the same after our return to earth. For the first time, we would have a true perspective on the frailty and brevity of life on earth and the absurdity of …
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LIFE & DEATH PERSPECTIVE Learn as if you were to live forever; Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Unknown
BUILD THE DREAM From the movie Fields of Dreams comes the basis of a vision: “If you build it, he will come. Likewise the church is given the basis of a greater vision: “If he is coming, we will build.” Adapted from a submission by Calvin Habig
WELCOMING COMMITTEE FOR CHRIST Early in my ministry, I gave a message on prophecy that sought to explain everything. I have since filed away that outline and will probably never look at it again — except when I need to be humbled. A pastor friend who suffered through my message said to me after the …