What if the biggest problem with our busy lives isn’t what we forget, but what we keep deciding can wait? We say God comes first. But sometimes prayer can wait. Serving someone can wait. Generosity can wait until we have a little more. Meanwhile, the urgent things get our attention, and the eternal things get [...]
"When we focus on grabbing all we can in this life, we are missing the big picture and we rob ourselves, God, and others. The reality of eternal life should definitely change how we live! In fact, we’re directly told that in 2 Peter 3. In verse 10 Peter says, “The heavens will disappear with [...]
What do you do when life doesn't turn out the way you had planned? What happens when death chokes the dreams of seeing your child grow up and have his first day of school or play in his first baseball game? How do you deal with the crippling reality of losing the person you have [...]
We talk a lot on this blog about living for eternity. That's because we firmly believe the most important things we can ever do on this earth are the things that will reverberate long after this mortal life is over. When everything around us in this life seems to encourage short-term fixes and instant gratification, [...]
Do you remember how miserable you felt the year you didn't get a Valentine? When everyone else in your class got one, or when all your friends received them, but not you? Being excluded is a miserable feeling for anyone, isn't it? And it was a miserable feeling years ago for a young boy living [...]
There is something about visiting cemeteries that can make one acutely aware of the brevity of earthly life. One afternoon a few years ago, I drove to a cemetery near my home. I wanted the lives from the past to speak to me through the messages on their headstones. I parked my car in a [...]
Time is short and eternity is long. It’s hard to imagine living forever because everything in our world has an expiration date. The milk in your refrigerator has an expiration date, your car registration has an expiration date, and even your body has an expiration date. You may have heard people say, “Nothing lasts forever.” [...]
In the spring of 1991, I was 13 years old. The week before spring break, my Dad learned he had to take a business trip to Louisiana, which meant he would be gone the entire week I was out of school. This news threatened to put a damper on the fun of a great [...]
In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis imagines a bus ride from hell to heaven. Lewis uses this trip to explore how our understanding of the connection between the eternal and the temporal is often incomplete. “Son,” he said, “ye cannot in your present state understand eternity. . . That is what mortals misunderstand. They say [...]
The summer before my junior year of college, my brother and I took part in a summer beach project in Daytona Beach, Florida with a campus student ministry from our university. We were extremely excited about it for many reasons, but one of them was because–if you can believe it–neither of us had ever seen [...]
