Biblical Hope in Times of Loss
Ken Boa discusses the firm and steady hope we have in Christ, especially in the face of the loss of loved ones.
Ken Boa discusses the firm and steady hope we have in Christ, especially in the face of the loss of loved ones.
Ken Boa gives a meditation on the mystery of the incarnation and the images of the manger and the cross.
The manger and the cross are an unlikely but undeniable pair, like bookends facing the opposite direction: the one, the enduring image of Christmas; the other, the enduring image of Easter.
By loving God completely, we discover who and whose we are as we come to see ourselves as God sees us. In this way, we become secure enough to become others-centered rather than self-centered.
Some verses for contemplation and reading on Thanksgiving or anytime during the year.
This live recording of a discussion with Ken Boa (moderated by Michael Stewart) addresses a topic that affects all of humanity: what happens after we die? What do we know about the afterlife from the Bible? This talk occurred at GraceLife Church (Pineville, NC) on in September 2018 as part of its In Question series.
Tozer said, “The days of the years of our lives are few, and swifter than a weaver’s shuttle.” Ken Boa closes this series on time with some practical tips for seeing and spending our time on earth with an eternal perspective.
God put a longing for eternity in our hearts; when we die, time will continue forever, in a way only God can see fully, with qualitative differences from our current experience of time. The process of aging will cease, and time will no longer constrain us or drag us down.
Unlike the circular/cyclical view of time taken by the ancient Greeks and today by Hindus, biblical time is linear, centered around the resurrection of Jesus Christ and building to the final climax in history when He returns again.
Our conventional view of time is insufficient to explain the eternal nature of God. As the one who created our space-time universe and stands outside of time, God always was and always is; there’s never been a time when He didn’t exist. He alone is able to survey time in its entire duration. Some of the things related to God’s purposes, such as free will, election, and divine sovereignty, are mysterious to us because of our own limited view of time.
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