Tag Archives: second coming

Blessed are the Awake (2018 Rerun)

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Pete

Another of my daughters and her kids arrived this week as we get ready for all the family to be together for the next 10 days back in B.C. First time we’ve all been together since before COVID! Looking forward … Continue reading →

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Good News! Good Timing?

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Pete

They were born again amid persecution, and they lived amid persecution. They received, by faith, the good news from men who were constantly harassed and afflicted, and they followed Jesus, by faith, being harassed and afflicted themselves. Being saved, for … Continue reading →

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Waiting, Waiting, Waiting

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Pete

Wrapping up 2Peter 3 this morning. And if there’s anything to take away from this passage, it’s that we should be waiting. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in … Continue reading →

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Straighten Up and Raise Our Heads

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Pete

However one might think it plays out, I’m thinking that most believers see hard times as being a sign of the end times. That’s why more than one person has asked me over the past several months, “Do you think … Continue reading →

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A Catalyst for Patience

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Pete

Longanimity. I’ve never come across the word before, until this morning. Used in one of my online lexicons to give the sense of a word found in one of my readings this morning. A 15th century English word which once … Continue reading →

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Eagerly Waiting

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Pete

Pull together a group of believers, ask them to brainstorm what marks a Christian, and, I’m guessing, the answers will come flying pretty easily. Born again, forgiven, adopted, disciples, filled with the Spirit. Bought, blessed, and being made like Jesus. … Continue reading →

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The Bottom Line Thing

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Pete

The time is near. That’s what grabs me this morning. That’s what sticks. Although John wrote it down, it is “the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His servants” (Rev. 1:1). And what He had … Continue reading →

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Next Time

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Pete

Started in on my reading plan for 2018–always like to be a few days ahead . . . creates a bit of buffer and reduces the risk of getting behind. Feels good to crack open a new Bible, ready myself … Continue reading →

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The Predictions and The Commandments

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Pete

It’s a myth. Not true. Not the way things really work. Don’t listen to popular, prevailing wisdom that says there’s a danger that we can become so heavenly minded that we’re no earthly good. That somehow the things of heaven … Continue reading →

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Not Really the Last Supper

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Pete

The scene has been immortalized. That classic rendering of Jesus and His disciples reclining at the table partaking of that final Passover before He would be taken and crucified. Every time we as believers remember Jesus in the Lord’s Supper, … Continue reading →

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