“This is just a test.” That’s our lives on earth – spiritual boot camp and a short quiz, over before we know it. A puff of hot air…a quick burst of hairspray. That’s life.
Why do Catholics pray for the dead but Protestants think it’s evil to pray for our deceased family?
What if you were in a plane crash and your only means to survive would be cannibalizing those who had died in the crash? Would that be a sin? Just a little food for thought…ha,ha,ha…(J.M.)
Baby Boomers are faced with an awful question: What have I done with my life? Sadly, we know the answer. We turned our backs on everything sacred & dear, squandered our lives, & became vacant…
I can’t shake the feeling that something bad is coming. I feel like I need to prepare, but I’m not sure how. Sometimes I think I won’t live very long. Do you have any advice? (J.M., Mt. Vernon, WA)
Focusing on the “partakers of Christ,” Benware asserts that there will be a difference in heavenly rewards between those who suffered and worked for the King and those who did not. Some will rule over many cities – others will rule just one and some over none.
I don’t enjoy church & I can’t stand the thought of singing hymns or playing harps for an eternity in heaven, either. I don’t mean to be rude but I’d rather just rest in peace – unconscious.
Who or what is the Mahdi we keep hearing about in Middle Eastern news? Is this the Muslim version of latter days prophecy?
Q. Our pastor gave a sermon that really upset some members of our church. It was about the “metachoi” of Christ in Hebrews 3:14. The believers who got angry said he was preaching a “faith/works” message and promoting the idea of an elitist club around Christ in heaven. Can you help explain this?
In many of our churches we have tried to divorce ourselves so completely from a works-oriented faith that we have embraced what many call “cheap grace.”
If heaven is filled with sinless people and good angels, why do we suffer here on earth so that we can become more like Christ to rule with him?
“if we endure, we will also reign with Him.” We will be “priests of God and of Christ” and we will ‘reign with him for a thousand years…over the nations” (2 Tim. 2:12; Rev. 20:6; 2:26). What does that mean?