Today is the last day of the month, the last day of the year, the last day of the decade. They say, “all good things must come to an end,” but our reading today says that’s not quite true. Today we see that things don’t really come to an end at all; they simply transition …
Tag: Heaven
Read-Through-The-Bible [12.28.19]
Today’s read was Revelation 4:1-8:6. John is invited into heaven, and we get a glimpse of it! He describes the throne room of God and its occupants with phrases such as “the appearance of,” “like,” “as if,” which tells us he is seeing things he really can’t put into words, so he describes them as …
Read-Through-The-Bible [12.24.19]
Every religion that worships a deity has some system of required sacrifices. Even in places in the world where the name of Jesus is not known or heard, the human heart knows that there is someone (or something) greater outside of ourselves and that we must appease this entity in order to be accepted. Our …
Read-Through-The-Bible [12.10.19]
Today we pick back up Paul’s story in Acts 20:1-21:16. At this time, the Spirit of God has impressed upon him that he needs to return to Jerusalem. After writing the letter to the Romans, he leaves Corinth and travels back through Greece and Macedonia, then sails along the coast down to Miletus. Miletus …
Read-Through-The-Bible [12.03.19]
How does it make you feel to know that your physical body is failing? I’ve been blessed with good health. I haven’t faced any life-threatening diseases. I’ve never broken a bone. I’ve only had one operation in my life (appendectomy at age 8), and other than that, the only hospital stays I’ve had were to …
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