And there was the baby, lying in the manger. (Luke 2:16 NLT)
Much of the famous artwork depicting Jesus is beautiful, but the artists also make it difficult to remember that Jesus was human. The incarnation is one of the...
And there was the baby, lying in the manger. (Luke 2:16 NLT)
Much of the famous artwork depicting Jesus is beautiful, but the artists also make it difficult to remember that Jesus was human. The incarnation is one of the...
Then I looked, and, oh!—a door open into Heaven. The trumpet-voice, the first voice in my vision, called out, “Ascend and enter. I’ll show you what happens next.” (Revelation 4:1 The Message)
The dreams I have about the...
“Look, I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me.” (Revelation 22:12 NLT)
Reward—it fills the pages of both Testaments. C. S. Lewis writes: “If you consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of...
“Look ahead with joy. Anticipate what I’m creating.” (Isaiah 65:18 The Message)
Certainly storytelling is one of the great pleasures in the kingdom. Would you like to write? Illustrate? Act? Produce? These are not...
I saw Heaven and earth new-created. (Revelation 21:1 The Message)
What if? A large golden eagle in this world can carry a sheep. What load can a renewed eagle bear? I would love to ride a golden eagle, with...
They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. (Isaiah 35:10)
What will it be like to be crowned with everlasting joy?...
“God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.” (Matthew 5:8 NLT)
According to the Scriptures, the heart can be troubled, wounded, pierced, grieved, even broken. How well you know that. Thankfully, it can also be...
READ MOREDear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)
There’s an expression that is...
The child-heart wants to know, “Will there be animals in heaven?” The calloused heart dismisses this as theologically unworthy. Friend, the whole debate ends when you realize that heaven comes to earth. How could your creative God renew...
READ MOREThis is exactly what Christ promised: eternal life, real life! (1 John 2:25 The Message)
Jesus’ offer of eternal life has gotten “interpreted” by well-meaning people to say, “Oh, well. Yes, of course ... God intends life for...
Commit yourself in love, in justice! Wait for your God, and don’t give up on him—ever! (Hosea 12:6 The Message)
Without naming evil for what it is, and without a day of reckoning, there can be no justice. (This is...
The fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. (1 Corinthians 3:13–14)
You know your every sin is forgiven. So if you can remove all fear of exposure...
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. Rescue me from my enemies, Lord, for I hide myself in you. (Psalm 143:8–9)
David...
READ MOREAnyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT)
We haven’t yet seen anyone in their true glory. Including you. Yes, Mozart wrote symphonies as a...
Because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ. (Ephesians 2:4–5)
It’s important to grasp what’s taking place in the world, so you know how to live and how to respond. Hatred has...
Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are his judgments. (Revelation 19:1–2)
Evil judged and utterly destroyed. Forever and ever. Not just in the fairy tale, but in your story. Satan...
“All mankind will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer.” (Isaiah 49:26)
Once upon a time the earth was whole and beautiful, shimmering like an emerald, filled with glory, bursting with anticipation. Such...
Then the angel showed me a river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of...
READ MOREJust as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man. (1 Corinthians 15:49 NLT)
You’ll be made perfect. Finally, the totality of your being will be saturated only with goodness. Think of all that you’...
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