Posts tagged “Heaven”
Color-blind
A man had been color-blind for 66 years. For his birthday, his family gave him a pair of glasses that allow people with color…
Many rooms
Three-year-old Ellis loves to talk about heaven and who will be with her there. My mom and dad believe in Jesus. Will they be…
Wait—THAT’S what I look like!
When you live in the same place for a long time, it becomes your baseline for normal. Noisy planes overhead become commonplace background noise….
You must be in the front row!
One night my daughters and I went to a concert. On our way in, we saw friends who had front-row seats. We stopped by…
The eternal answer to troubles
What’s troubling your heart today? Is it a particular thing that you did wrong long ago, but it’s not long forgotten? Is it a…
A better country
As many as 400,000 Central American migrants try to enter the U.S. every year. By the time they reach the Mexico-U.S. border, they’ve made…
Regrets
A regret is when something from your past weighs you down in the present. How many regrets are you carrying with you today? The…
Jesus’ sacrifice
I can’t get through the national anthem without tearing up. It started long ago when I watched Dan Jansen on the podium. Yes, I…
One thing to do before you die
Nothing evokes panic in me more than books like 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. The authors of books like this must not…
What is the real message of Easter?
For over a thousand years, Jewish believers worshiped God on Saturday, also called the Sabbath. But after Jesus rose from the dead, early Christians…
No filter
“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even…
Jesus sets you free
In 1863 an escaped slave named Gordon appeared in Baton Rouge with the scent of onions on his skin. He had been running from…