When Jesus comes to rapture His Church, we will bear His Image and we will have His Spirit. The two together are the determinant of those heaven-bound. That’s how He recognizes who will be raptured. Image and Spirit. There’s no favoritism here at all because the Holy Spirit will be given to anyone who repents […]
God sees value in His Image-bearers. But sometimes people decide instead to attribute motives to God that do not exist. Looking through their lens of sinful humanity, they think God must be a narcissist, that it’s all about getting people to worship Him. Or that He selfishly wants all the glory to and for Himself. […]
Making the truth known is part of the Image of God for humanity. What was at one point concealed is now being made known. As Christians, we don’t need to be afraid of the truth…of speaking the truth, of believing the truth, of living the truth, or loving the truth. Truth is a person, and […]
If a recent look at the comments to Franklin Graham’s post on Twitter are any indication, Satan (who wants as many traveling buddies to hell as he can get) …well, he’s going to have plenty of company. People seriously, arrogantly, and loudly proclaiming that they think that hell is going to be better than heaven […]
Last time in our devotional series, “Created to Display His Image”, we talked about the mercy of God in the context of His holiness. In Christ, God has made a way for Image-bearers to be redeemed displaying love and mercy without sacrificing any of His holiness! In fact, that’s why He delays His Return. He’s […]
. This year’s Lent Devotional Series “Created to Display His Image” resumes tomorrow after today’s Sabbath rest to meditate and worship. Today, rest in the mindset of the Messiah.
I am uncomfortable with some of modern Christian music expressing the idea that God is running after us because He didn’t want heaven without us…as if there’s something special about the sought-after ones, something special about this flesh. I know they mean well, it’s just theologically hard for me to swallow. Here’s why: What if […]
As much as I hated the pop quizzes in seminary, always testing us on rather obscure specifics of Scripture in what had been our reading for the day, I must admit, it gave me a sense of awe about God’s inclusion of little details in Scripture and how their significance can be unrelated to their […]
It is entirely possible to see Jesus, walk with Jesus, learn from Jesus, and still not recognize Him and the Very Image of God He displays. Two men walking on the road to Emmaus learned that by experience, telling their conversation to Jesus, they said, Luke 24:21 We had hoped that he was the one […]
Yesterday, we saw that when Jesus returns, we will bear the Image of the heavenly man, Jesus Christ. But wait, there’s more! We don’t just get His Image; we also get to share in His glory. Let your thoughts rest on that for the moment. For now, our encounter with God has glory that reflects […]
