The Heavenly Dimension
For Jesus to Ascend into the Heavenly dimension doesn’t mean he was beamed up somewhere so much as it means he went “next door.” It is the limitation both of…
Christ Is Still Human
Even during the resurrection Jesus didn’t stop being human. He was resurrected into new, human life. Even when he ascended into Heaven he was still a human being. And when…
“Where Is God In The Midst Of All This?”
Christians, as the Body of Christ, make God visible in the world. When people ask “Where is God in the midst of all this?”, it should be the Church who…
Three Meanings of Heaven
The word Heaven refers to three different things in Scripture: Heaven is the sky or, more accurately, the heavens are the skies above the Earth. So, when the psalmist declares…
Ascension
The Ascension was Christ’s coronation—the moment when he took his rightful place on Heaven’s throne. He is no longer the homeless rabbi, the upstart Galilean, or the fanatical preacher. He…
Kinds of Death
In the Bible, death means separation, not cessation. Did you catch that? The biblical writers didn’t believe your life ended—neither your consciousness, nor your existence—but that through death you were…
Resurrection Theology
All theology of the cross must include a theology of the resurrection, or else we have a theology that rids us of the problem of sin but does nothing to…
New Genesis
In Luke 3.23 we read that “Jesus began his work.” Interestingly, if you were to translate Luke’s writing directly from Greek to English, the most accurate rendering of the text…
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