“No matter what happens… when the heart turns to God, the blessed life is on its way. It’s on its way Here and it’s on it’s way Now. It’s certainly true that the hereafter is going to be even better. But if you want to go to heaven, the secret is, Go Now. Because it’s […]
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Dallas Willard interview http://thejesusquestion.org/2016/01/07/dallas-willard-talks-gospel-grace-and-spiritual-discipline/ When asked by interviewer John Ortberg to define Jesus’s gospel, Willard responds, “It’s how to get into heaven before you die.” Many evangelists, unfortunately, teach a grave distortion of that: that the gospel is all about attaining heaven after death. In his preaching Jesus insisted again and again on the availability […]
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The other two days have earned names on the church calendar: Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Yet in a real sense we live on Saturday, the day with no name. What the disciples experienced in small scale—three days in grief over one man who had died on a cross—we now live through on cosmic scale. […]