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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
I decided to search for God in the mountains, alone, and so I did, numerous times. Perhaps if I knocked long and hard, heaven's gates would open to me. I remember the first time that I drove up to a place called Prayer Mountain, near Divide, Colorado, climbed from my...
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...