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Heaven: Our Glorious New Home

The Mature Christian Anticipates the Resurrection, Part 2

By Steve Swartz
4 years ago
In the city of Corinth in the Apostle Paul’s day, some in the church were proclaiming, “There is NO resurrection of the dead.” But Paul had an answer to this claim. Paul, in essence, replied: If there is no resurrection from the dead, then not even Christ has been raised! And if Christ has not been...

Heaven: Our Glorious New Home

The Mature Christian Anticipates the Resurrection, Part 1

By Steve Swartz
4 years ago
Paul tells us that we will receive resurrection power through becoming like Him in His death, “that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death” (Phil 3:10). We will therefore have the power to live and the power to hope. Paul says...

Heaven: Our Glorious New Home

Citizens of Heaven Standing Firm

By Steve Swartz
4 years ago
As Christians we live in a world that is more and more godless and where heinous sins have become the norm for our society. Materialism, post-modernism, and self-centered philosophies have invaded every walk of life and continue to invade the church with startling regularity. However, we are called...

Heaven: Our Glorious New Home

Living in Light of Heaven

By Steve Swartz
4 years ago
In Philippians 3, Paul shows a very clear contrast between the believer, who should be heavenly-minded, and the unbeliever who is by nature earthly-minded. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold tr...

Heaven: Our Glorious New Home

How to Understand Christian Death

By Steve Swartz
4 years ago
For the unbeliever, death is the gateway to eternal torment and paying the rightful penalty for a life of rejecting Christ. It also has the connotation of rest in the phrase “slept with their fathers,” as in Old Testament ancestors. But the Christian connotation adds an element of understanding that...

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