Being followers and lovers of Jesus, we aren’t exempt from the death process, but we know our ultimate destination. I know where my dad is going and that one day we will be reunited. I don’t know what that’s going to look like, but I know it’s going to be great.
Tag: Hope
The ONLY Hope
All our Easter celebrations are going to look different this year. There will be no community wide Easter egg hunts. People will not gather for church on Easter morning with hundreds of other worshipers while being dressed in their Easter finest. Churches that bring in live animals on Easter will need to leave them in…
Prophecy
When I was a kid, I grew up in a church that frequently spoke about prophecy. We had prophecy weekends, special prophecy speakers and prophecy studies. The teaching and studies about prophecy always related to the events around the second coming of Jesus and almost always included charts, graphs, specific fulfillment dates and predictions related…
Hope
It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in May. The year was 2006. I was at a women’s retreat in the southeastern part of Minnesota. The focus of the retreat was spiritual, physical and mental health. The presenter was talking about depression and suicide. There was a knock on the meeting room door and someone got…