Tag Archives: eternal life

Worth the Trip

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Pete

Was up in B.C. for most of this week, hanging out with my daughter and her family. And grandkid-filled days result in sleep-filled nights. Amazing how a three-year-old and a one-year-old can run a fifty-eight-year-old into the ground. What a … Continue reading →

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Swallowed Up by Life

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Pete

Said it before, will say it again. Sometimes the best way to deal with the here and now is to pause and refocus on the there and then. Paul did. Reading in 2Corinthians 4 this morning and Paul’s “afflicted in … Continue reading →

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Starts with the Right Question

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Pete

It occurs to me that we live in an age which, for the most part, has been duped into asking the wrong question. We’ve become focused on the preliminaries and not on the main event. We’ve come to believe that … Continue reading →

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Me Keeping, He Keeping

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Pete

It’s a joint responsibility between me and God. It involves my pursuit but stands upon His promise. I make every effort because of great anticipation, He commits His active agency to ensure a great consummation. Mine is to pursue eternal … Continue reading →

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Ransomed from the Vapors

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Pete

Vapor of vapors . . . all of it is vapor. As the Preacher draws his musings to an end in Ecclesiastes he can’t shake the overall futility he feels as he nears the end of his race (Eccl. 12:8). … Continue reading →

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The Glory To Be Revealed

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Pete

In about 16 hours it will be exactly five years ago that life took an unimagined turn for Sue and I. Five years. Sounds like a long time ago, but in many ways it doesn’t feel that way. To be … Continue reading →

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Our Gain

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Pete

My media world exploded with death over the past couple of days. A Facebook “friend” who lost a husband, a Voice contestant who we followed a few years ago, a nightclub full of people we have no connection with other … Continue reading →

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Doing Eternal Life Right Now

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Pete

Some re-worked thoughts from 2010 . . . There’s at least a couple of ways that you learn stuff from Scriptures. One way is to kind of “glean” truths. For example, I was reading in Revelation 7 this morning about … Continue reading →

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Food with a Promise

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Pete

You read through Jesus’ teaching in John 6 and you kind of get why “when many of His disciples heard it, they said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?’” (6:60). Teaching about a bread which comes … Continue reading →

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The Path to Our Final Destination

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Pete

I think I’ve commented on it before . . . how some verses lie in the shadow of others. Case in point, this morning, Romans 6:22. Romans 6:23 is the well known verse . . . “For the wages of … Continue reading →

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