Sitting Under the Kudzu Vine

So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head.

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Christ who Marches Through History

Almost 30 years ago, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on The Doctrine of Man in the Theology Helmut Thielicke.  Today Thielicke is almost forgotten by the younger seminary students. But he was an important figure in...

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THE PULL OF HEAVEN

Our past doesn’t own us. Our failures, our sins, our troubles, our aspirations and goals, our hopes and our dreams have no claim on us. Only Christ can claim us. If we stumble and fall, we can get up and go on, even press on because God Himself has set us free.
We no longer belong to this world. Paul says our citizenship is in heaven.