Long-View Living
It’s The Eternal View
Sometimes the Bible says things that leave us scratching our heads and asking, “Huh? How can this be?” The record of Abraham’s passing is just such a passage. Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.– Genesis 25:8, ESV…
Read MoreSince You’ve Been Raised With Christ
Last week we looked at our passions – those things our “gut” (φρήν) longs after. This week we shift ever so slightly and look at the reason for that longing. It is found in the preceding verse that formed the baseline for last week’s blog posting. Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts…
Read MoreLong-View Living in a Short-View World™
Last week we looked at the calling each of us has in Christ, a calling to “good works which God has prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”1 This week we transition into a natural outcome of responding to that calling. God and Time I have two clocks by my desk at work, one hanging…
Read MoreHere He Comes For the Last Time
Everything we do at Long-View Living ministries is, in some way, tied to or encouraging an eternal perspective – the long view. “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18, NIV-1978). When we…
Read MoreLiving for the Moment
As a child, I lived for the moment. All that mattered was what I was doing at that specific time. It may have been swimming at the municipal pool. Perhaps it was playing with cars and trucks in the driveway. Maybe it was riding my bicycle or eating ice cream. Whatever it was I was…
Read MoreLong-View Living – The Eternal Perspective
As a child, I lived for the moment. All that mattered was what I was doing at that very time. Perhaps I was swimming at the local pool. Maybe I was playing with cars and trucks in the driveway. I might have been riding my bicycle or eating ice cream. Whatever it was, that was…
Read MoreThe Danger of Not Being Alert
I got a bit of a surprise this morning when I stopped to fill my car with gasoline. It unfolded something like this… Last week, I told you about the passing of my mother-in-law, and I am grateful to those who expressed your loving comfort and condolences. While I was in Kansas for slightly more…
Read MoreLong-View Living in a Short-View World – II
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin I am often so obtuse that I miss the obvious. Perhaps not something as obvious as what Steve Martin has pointed out above, but I make assumptions that I later learn to be invalid. I was visiting, recently, with Alean about Long-View…
Read MoreThree Truths About Raising the Dead
I marvel, at times, regarding the various trends that seem to captivate the attention of huge numbers of people. More often than not, I have no idea how or where the trend started, or what it is that keeps it going. Consider the recent national obsession with bacon. Seriously, what is up with that? Yes,…
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