In preaching through Hebrews (which I was doing at the time I wrote this post) inevitably questions surface about “eternal security” (the truth that true believers will not lose their salvation).
Here’s the deal: Eternal security is usually the right answer to the wrong question.
From C.S. Lewis, Surpised by Joy:
Early in 1926 the hardest boiled of all the atheists I ever knew sat in my room on the other side of the fire and remarked that the evidence for the
Peacemaker ministries has started a blog. I’m looking forward to it and recommend it to pretty much everyone.
I can’t tell you how many pages I read about forgiveness when writing my book (Unpacking Forgiveness: Biblical Answers for Complex Questions and Deep Wounds, to
Some of our best times together as a family are Bible stories after dinner. Our youngest is now five, but this story took place when she was three.
Our Bible story at dinner the other night was about Elijah. My wife makes these beef enchilada things that are really good. While our four children finished eating their enchiladas I shared with them the story of how Elijah was taken to be with Christ in a chariot of fire.
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. Galatians 2:10, ESV.
My family has spent more on Ipods in the last year than we have on Africa. How do you suppose that plays in Heaven?