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Heaven Is More Real Than That

I was driving with my sixteen-year-old son the other day, and I was struck by the disparity between what we Christians say about heaven and how we feel about heaven. The disparity is something I was sure my son saw, and so I meant to drag it into the open. I wanted to...

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Heaven is More Real Than That

I was driving with my sixteen-year-old son the other day, and I was struck by the disparity between what we Christians say about heaven and how we feel about heaven. The disparity is something I was sure my son saw, and so I meant to drag it into the open. I wanted to...

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House of Delights

Picture a large house with many rooms and long wooden halls and a grassy backyard that surrounds a large blue swimming pool.Brilliant crystal chandeliers hang over lavish spreads of food in not one but two dining rooms.The first dining room holds the foretastes-sweet...

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The Dark Room

I've characterized hope as a pearl of great price that can be placed in the heart to bring the machine of happiness roaring to life. There is another way to look at hope. A short analogy:There is a dark cellar. The walls of this cellar are a bit of a mystery to you....

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Bold New World

We settled on Colorado Springs. My parents were moving there, and it seemed like a reasonable place. I had enough money to build a house and buy a small struggling manufacturing business for a couple hundred thousand dollars.Life was looking better. Happiness was once...

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The Machine

Let me characterize the critical nature of hope through a contemporary parable. In fact, to mix things up a bit, let's make it a futuristic parable.Imagine a huge machine, built like a three-story glass building, in the middle of a white desert. In fact, when you...

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