Posts Tagged ‘Eternity’
Long-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 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,…
Read MoreLong-View Living in a Short-View World
In January of 2017, I changed the tagline, or brand of my writing and speaking ministry from Disciple’s Walk, established in the 1990s, to Long-View Living in a Short-View World, a phrase that came from my manuscript for The Christ Saturated Life. Those of us who live life with the long view embrace the idea that we are…
Read MoreThere Is No ‘Someday’
This morning, Mister Bear (my cat) was sitting regally by the back door, gazing out the window at his ditch – his kingdom. When he realized I was watching him, he said it, “Ooooooooouuuuut.” Obediently, I went to the door and opened it for my feline master. Every one of you who is owned by…
Read MoreRed is the New Green
I was reading Psalm 43 this morning. It is a brief, five-verse psalm, and in the middle, verse three says this: “Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!” (Psalm 43:3 – ESV) As I pondered that, I began thinking about…
Read MoreExcept for These Chains
“This is my gospel, for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained.” (2nd Timothy 2:8b-9, NIV-1984) Six months after the fact, I can still recall a tremendously impactful time of worship with my home church wherein we observed the International Day of…
Read MoreMilking My Plants
I arrived at work this morning sometime around 5:30, zombied my way up the stairs and began my standard routine. I fired up the computer and immediately set my hands to making a pot of coffee – a critical element of any righteous morning. Since I neglected to water my plants yesterday afternoon, I made…
Read MoreHis Time
The Apostle Paul assures us in Romans 8:28 that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him and who are called according to God’s purpose. That is not to be misunderstood as saying that God causes only good things to happen to his people, but rather that whatever does happen…
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