Heaven
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Our Broken World…and Our Longing for Another
The deep darkness of the world has come home to us in recent days. It’s a combination of things, really. The shooting of innocent young black men, the shooting of police, our nation’s finest, and then two political conventions with two candidates that, more than any election I can recall, define the idea of voting for Continue reading
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The Finish Line
It’s about 6:20 p.m. now on Wednesday night, and I am sitting here in our Living Room next to the Christmas Tree to write the final blog of the year 2015. As most of you know, I have been blogging every weekday (except Labor Day) this year through the New Testament. And it’s kind of funny – coming home Continue reading
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How is Heaven Like the New Year?
There is an idea going about that we can’t know what Heaven is like and will never know until we get there. Randy Alcorn, in his book aptly titled, Heaven, says this thinking comes from misunderstanding a particular verse… But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has Continue reading
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Thanking God for the CERTAINTY of Eternal Life
Some ideas blow your world apart, and 33 years ago, I heard such an idea when I was at West Point on bivouac. Bob Maruna, an upper class cadet, stopped by my tent and told me I could know whether I was going to heaven. I had never heard such a thing before, but it is Continue reading
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It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
If you were watching TV in the 1980’s, surely you remember the Old Milwaukee commercials where the guys were sitting around the campfire drinking that mediocre beer and saying, “Fellas, it just doesn’t get any better than this.” My recent trip around YouTube tells me that there have been some fine parodies made since that time, Continue reading
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The One Thing That is Really Worth Getting Excited About
It must have been a heady experience: Jesus appointed seventy-two men and told them to go ahead of him and preach the Kingdom, and when they came back from their journey, they had an incredible report: The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” Luke 10:17 (ESV) When Continue reading
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The Knowltons Come Home
The Knowlton clan returned last night from a short term mission trip in Xpujil, Mexico. Well, I should say that some of us did – Annie and I had stayed in Waupun to keep the home fires burning – but Diane, Josh and Elisabeth returned with tales to tell. And though it was late, we gathered Continue reading
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3 Years in Heaven for Don Knowlton
Tomorrow it will be three years ago that Dad went to heaven. It was one week short of his 86th birthday. I miss him. The end came pretty quickly. He fell in the fall of 2008, and suddenly our world was turned upside down. Mom has Alzheimer’s and Dad was her caregiver. Suddenly the “junior Knowltons” were Continue reading
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