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GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)—Have you ever noticed that when a discussion turns to a recently deceased celebrity, someone invariably says, “I know he’s looking down on us right now”? It doesn’t matter how godless the person was, his peers refer to him as being in a better place and then gesture skyward. Mark Coppenger, professor of Christian apologetics at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, sees a lamentable example of that in the 1941 poem “High Flight,” which was quoted in tribute to astronauts who died in the 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Not all the astronauts were Christians “but we...

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"What is life compared to that day which will have no evening for the elect, or to that night which will have no dawning for the damned? On earth, people attach themselves to everything and everyone except to Him, who alone ought to have our love and to whom we refuse it. Jesus in the Tabernacle waits for souls to love Him and He finds none. Hardly one soul in a thousand loves Him as it should. Love Him and make up to Him for this guilty indifference which exists all over this world." * * * * * *...

<p>Jesus Christ chose to inject Himself from His place inhabiting eternity, into created our reality. The Holy Spirit overshadowed a virgin Jewish girl named Mary who lived in Nazareth over 2000 years ago, to become God in the flesh, in the person of the Son. He lowered Himself in unfathomable ways, by laying aside His eternal attributes in order to demonstrate, by example to all mankind, how to perfectly relate to the Father. Emmanuel, God with us.</p>

"Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here."

"Once death appears as an enemy, especially an enemy with an accusing face, pointing the finger of guilt at us, the simplest way to deal with it is to ignore it." --Peter Kreeft       "Throughout history, truth has been considered a form of dementia, and those who have turned away from fantasy and fixed there eyes on reality, judged insane." --Malcolm Muggeridge        "The language of evil becomes meaningless when the standard by which an action is judged repugnant has vanished, and that standard has vanished in our post-modern world...It has vanished for both sin and...

On this subject of the eternal duration of the Divine Being, many have held a metaphysical refinement. "The eternal existence of God," it is said, "is not to be considered as successive; the ideas we gain from time are not to be allowed in our conceptions of his duration. As he fills all space with his immensity, he fills all duration with his eternity; and with him eternity is nunc stans, a permanent now, incapable of the relations of past, present, and future." Such, certainly, is not the view given us of this mysterious subject in the Scriptures; and if...

"The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms." (Deut. 33:27) Scripture declares that God is eternal. In theological categories, eternity is treated as an attribute of God's essential nature. Defining and describing this attribute is not an easy task. In fact, any definition will fall short, for the simple reason that we have no way to understand what it means to be uncreated or to have no beginning. This does not mean, however, that any derived understanding will necessarily be inaccurate, only incomplete. But this of course is true with all theology. In defining eternity as...

IN HEAVEN, we'll have glorified eyes capable of seeing God's splendor, radiance, and beauty. We will also have an expanded, glorified capacity to appreciate His character as we never have before. Our appreciation and enjoyment of God will never come to an end, because He is infinite. Pastor Mark Dever compares leading worship to holding a diamond in front of the congregation and rotating it, to show its many facets. Jesus is like a diamond with an infinite number of facets. In heaven, maybe Jesus will show us one facet of His love, and we'll fall down and worship, as...

Williams' body already frozen; daughter fighting ESPN.com news services HERNANDO, Fla. -- Ted Williams' estate will ask a judge to decide if the baseball great's body should be cremated or frozen, a move to try to resolve a family feud over the remains. Al Cassidy, the executor of the estate, will file Williams' will in state court on Tuesday or Wednesday and ask the judge to rule on the issue, John Heer, a lawyer for Williams' oldest daughter, said Monday. Heer contends Williams wanted to be cremated. The daughter, Bobby-Jo Ferrell, has accused her half brother, John Henry Williams, of...

CALVINISM -- TEN LITTLE CAVEATS CHAPTER FOUR Calvinism's View Of Time In the second chapter I tried to chronicle how wrong presuppositions about God were taken to explain some perplexing things in the Bible. I now intend to develop what further consequences will occur when the beginning assumptions are wrong. If God does not really change at all then notions that involve change may become slanted. If God does not change at all then things for Him like time, life, action, and response would be totally different than the way we ordinarily understand them. I don't mean "largely different"; I...

JOHN WESLEY SERMON FIFTY-FOUR ON ETERNITY quot;From everlasting to everlasting thou art God.quot; Psalm 90:2 1. I would fain speak of that awful subject, -- eternity. But how can we grasp it in our thought? It is so vast, that the narrow mind of man is utterly unable to comprehend it. But does it not bear some affinity to another incomprehensible thing, -- immensity? May not space, though an unsubstantial thing, be compared with another unsubstantial thing, -- duration? But what is immensity? It is boundless space. And what is eternity? It is boundless duration. 2. Eternity has generally been...