I try not to get into theological arguments if I can help it, but recently there have been several deaths in my family/friend/aquaintance group and I boldly state with confidence that they are now with the Lord ( or “Promoted to Glory” as we say in The Salvation Army). How can I be so sure when I have no physical evidence that it is so?
Apologists ...
Life so often feels like a battlefield. Pressures close in, responsibilities pile high, and overwhelming emotions swell until they feel impossible to manage. In those moments, so many of us exhaust ourselves by pushing harder, trying to control every outcome and fix every problem. But Scripture invites us into a different kind of strength—one that ...
This is not the column I intended to write for this week, but life events have overtaken me and I have had to surrender my wife of fifty four years into the loving arms of Jesus. In Salvation Army parlance, she has been “Promoted to Glory”. In her place I am left with a grief so profound and painful my only hope of relief has to come from scipture ...
In social media there is a phenomenon known as “ghosting”. It feels like a monologue where one party is trying to communicate but there is no reply — even though you know the other party probably saw your message. It’s very frustrating. I think there’s an analogous situation I call “Holy Ghosting” when we face seasons when God seems quiet—when we ...
I am always impressed by the devotion followers of other religions have towards the practice of prayer. Even though they are not praying to a living entity, the practice and the rituals surrounding it become an obsession, hoping to gain favor and/or mercy from their god. So why is it, or should it be, different for Jesus-followers?
To live ...
“We believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be wholly sanctified, and that their whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” — Tenth Article of Faith (Doctrine) of The Salvation Army
This doctrine echoes Paul’s prayer in his letter to the Thessalonian church, affirming ...
I was taught Latin for four years between the ages of eight and twelve, and although the schoolboy doggerel of the time said, “Latin is a language as dead as dead can be/ It killed the ancient Romans and now it’s killing me!”, it actually was one of the most valuable contributions to my education. So when I came across the motto of the Church ...