We have been in a sermon series called: Present Suffering Future Glory. We spent three weeks discussing a theology of suffering and how God uses suffering to conform us more and more to Christ. The past three weeks we looked at a theology of heaven. Much of that time has been trying to keep a forward glace at the life to come with Christ forever. Heaven seems so distant a thought to some, while ever present in the mind of others. Personally, heaven barely crept into my mind i

Like most pastors, I was in my 20s looking for a way to pay for seminary. It was clear that additional academic training in counseling, study of the Word, and church leadership was needed. Seminary would not teach me everything I needed to be a helpful pastor but would expose me to opportunities and resources that I would not even begin to understand. One of those things would be proficiency in biblical Greek and Hebrew to better understand the Word for personal study and pre

Many days, I sit in my office chair listening to the story of another, asking questions to elicit meaning and offering strategies with deep concern for my client’s wellbeing. There’s a heaviness in the room as they express the hurt and pain this world has offered them. There’s no question that suffering exists, and we try our best to come up with effective strategies to help us cope with the continuum of mild symptoms all the way to tragedy. And yet, as I sit there, I know co

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