A Living Hope, A Sure Salvation Because of Grace

Where do I start? Let me start with a week ago last Saturday. My great aunt passed away. She is in heaven and not in any more pain and for the first time in years is walking and jumping for joy and not in a wheel chair. I woke up last Monday morning about the usual time for a Monday (see I don't have to be at work until 11am Monday so I sleep in a little bit ), but I had this feeling that for a couple hours I couldn't put a name too......Finally about half or three quarters through my day I was finally (thanks to a conversation with a friend) able to put a name to the feeling. Unsettled. Unsettled was the word I was looking for to identify the feeling that I had woke up with. I also had this "I could cry at the drop of a pen" feeling on top of that unsettled feeling. Finished Monday with the same unsettled feeling I woke up with. Tuesday woke up with the same feeling . Unsettled. No idea why. By the end of the day Tuesday I had finally been able to deeply laugh (t...

103 days "Then sometimes we're like the apostle Paul who, when lost in the amazed wonder of what he was trying to communicate, took to writing. Perhaps none of his New Testament works is a better example of this than his letter to the Ephesians, which some scholars consider to be the pinnacle of all his writings. Go back and read it yourself. See if you can't hear him grasping and lunging for just the right words. He nearly runs out of breath tryin gto portray the greatness and grandeur of God, the cast scope of His wondrous acts, the hugeness of His love, and the wealth of our inheritance in Christ. Yet as beautiful as the wording is, as much spiritual ground as he covers, you still get the sneaking impression that human language simply does not have the descriptors for some of what Paul is wanting to say. In the first half alone---a bit more than sixty verses--- he takes us to "heavenly places" that stretch "far above all rule and authority and power and...