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Are the End Times Near? Why you can ‘Keep Calm and Carry on.’
Sometimes it feels like there is no doubt that we are living in the End Times. Fires burn, pestilences rage, and unrest abounds. What does that mean for us now? Nothing. Well, nothing different anyway. What makes today unique is that despite what sometimes feels like rising tension in the world, the mission hasn’t changed. In these moments of history, when it feels like hardship is coming at us from every angle, it feels as though Jesus should return. It’s easy to ask oneself, where is the Lord? Isn’t today a good day to be rescued? Something about that feels like the wrong question. A better question might be, what…
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Hail, Mary
Our new church home has plunged into the pages of Luke, so yesterday we had a bit of Christmas in July with the Annunciation and Mary’s magnificent response. I’ve written on Mary before but she’s worth coming round to again and again. Her life is a beautiful melody full of rapturous high notes but written in a dark, minor key. And it's an important reminder for me right now. My husband and I have just moved our family across several states to follow God’s call to a new church, and I suppose I had unspoken expectations of how he would reward our obedience. Mistake. Our domestic…
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Part XI: The Lord of the Scroll – When will the King of Kings Return?
One of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity is that our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ will one day return, gather those alive on Earth that truly believed in Him (i.e., His Church), and then move them to be with Him forevermore! (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17) Consequently, inquiring minds throughout the ages have wondered WHEN this will occur (Matthew 24:3). Many had tried to predict WHEN this will occur, only to be proven wrong when their date passed without it transpiring.
