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Maybe hell isn’t fire and brimstone. Maybe it’s something far worse: wanting forever and never being satisfied. Our modern culture may already give us a small taste—more money, more stuff, more attention, more pleasure, yet somehow never enough. C.S. Lewis suggested our deepest longings may point beyond this world. Perhaps the question isn’t how to get more, but why nothing we get ever seems to fill the hole.
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God is good, and He is just. It’s important for us to remember the fullness of who He is so that we can remember how much we need the salvation and forgiveness His Son Jesus offers to us. In all of our brokenness, we are not without a Savior.
Jesus is the center of the entire Bible because He answers all three rebellions. He defeats the serpent (Gen. 3; Rev. 12), proclaims victory over the imprisoned Watchers (1 Pet. 3:19–20), and reclaims the nations disinherited at Babel (Matt. 28:18–20; Acts 2). He is the Second Adam (1 Cor. 15:45), restoring humanity’s failed vocation.
After the flood, God again commands humanity to “fill the earth” (Gen. 9:1). Instead, humanity gathers at Babel and says, “Let us make a name for ourselves” and “lest we be scattered” (Gen. 11:4). This is open rebellion. Babel is the first attempt at global government independent of God—centralized control, unified language, human exaltation. It is humanity trying to reverse God’s plan and replace divine rule with human empire.
We’ll call her April. But that’s not her name. She sent me a letter which arrived in my mailbox on April 1. Hence, the pseudonym.
“I am 15 and I just had a baby…” the letter began.
I paused to get my reading glasses.
Christians are frequently reminded that Romans 13 tells us to obey governing authorities. Fair enough. But what happens when government reverses its God-given assignment—punishing good, protecting evil, or commanding Christians to violate their conscience? Scripture actually answers that question, and the answer is considerably less comfortable than “just obey.”
Over the years, I’ve written about Morgan many times, keeping notes on many of the conversations Morgan and I have had, so I’d never forget the things she told me.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are the victims of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, for they are with God.
Jesus of Nazareth’s life, teachings, and the miracles attributed to him have sparked profound discussions and debates across cultures and centuries.
Every generation claims it has finally uncovered the “real” Jesus. Strip away two thousand years of Christian teaching, mix in a little philosophy, sprinkle in some secret knowledge, and suddenly Christ becomes something entirely different. The tragedy is that the oldest counterfeit never disappears—it simply changes its vocabulary. The apostles warned that false gospels would come. They weren’t predicting the distant future; they were describing their own day. Two thousand years later, the same deception persists. The names have changed, but the message remains the same: replace the Savior with a teacher, repentance with self-discovery, and grace with the promise that the answer has been inside you all along. Counterfeits don’t succeed because they’re obviously false—they succeed because they look just enough like the truth to deceive those who never compare them to Scripture.
Today, I presented this sermon to the church body where I attend. It took 22 minutes to present, but a lifetime to learn the truth of this message. Fill in gaps as you read, and you can hear God speaking clearly.
America, we need to remember how to disagree without hating one another. When I was growing up, many of my neighbors and friends were Democrats. My family was conservative and Republican. We disagreed. Sometimes we argued politics at the dinner table. But when the weekend came, we still went swimming together, canoeing together, watching movies together, eating together, and living as neighbors. Political disagreement did not require hatred. It did not require destroying friendships. It did not require treating half the country as enemies.
The word “trees” shows up more than 200 times in the Bible. Discover why it may not just be “the heavens that declare the glory of God” but also trees.
Usually, Sunday is when I pen (actually peck out) my weekly Op Ed. What else should be written on Easter, other than Easter? It’s the singularly greatest event since the creation of the Universe. The point in time and space when the Creator of the Universe reconciled His created beings to Himself. The Creator becoming one of his creations in the Incarnation is huge, but not as big as the Resurrection.
Because Jesus declared tetelestai—“it is finished”—we can live in the freedom of a salvation that is fully accomplished, not partially earned.
The year is 250 A.D. It’s Good Friday. Although, technically, there is no “Good Friday.” Not for another hundred years.
In John 19:30, Jesus cried out, “It Is Finished!” Many of us have heard these words, but what do these words really mean? What was finished?
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