Tag: judgement
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Son-Man Risen!
“Are you the King of the Jews,” the Prefect Pilate had asked JESUS just three days ago? βασιλεύς King ? Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom…
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The End of the Living – a letter from Peter – 7
Living toward the End Peter challenges persecuted believers to Suffer for Good and trust God to punish those who do evil. He then proceeds to warn of the judgement and the end of those living souls as well as for those who are dead. Just as the end of all life will come, so must…
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Resurrection of Judgment
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. John 5:28-29 We hardly marvel at anything, least of all…
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Three Widows & a Widower
Fifteen years ago I became a widower. (We had been married more than two decades.) I know personally the loss of the widow (& widower). Jesus spoke of three widows: one, in a parable on the persistence of prayer to God one, of an unnamed widow who sacrificed only two mites to God at the Temple (leptons…
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Impersonal, Indifferent
Your Christianity is too impersonal for me, dear brother. Your claim of Christ is too distant from me, dear sister. Your cause of Christ is too narrow for me, dear born again believer. Your concern of Christ to me seems indifferent, dear spirit-filled singer. Your text is too convenient, Your facebook page too unfriendly, Your…
