If you've ever read or studied the book Ecclesiastes from the Old Testament, you know that it can be a little bit gloomy.
Over the course of my ministry, I've often asked people if they think they're going to go to heaven when they die.
The mission work of the church is not intended to be an afterthought of Christianity.
Today I want to talk a little bit about the church.
Are you familiar with the Year of Jubilee? Jesus came to pay your debt and grant you God's favor.
But what happens after he rises? He ascends.
When water flows, it naturally wants to go downstream and find the lowest spot. And that's kind of a beautiful picture of the Gospel.
Human beings and the world were designed together. This world provides for us everything that we need in order to get by.
We know that with the advent of the Internet that we have an endless supply of worldly, silly myths that we could investigate.
It was amazing to me that this 97 year old man still had the heart of a missionary.
Jesus Christ, who is the very light of the world now has to steal away in darkness to have his life spared.
Jesus uses a very simple explanation about two different approaches to life, two different ways of going through life, and ultimately to different final destinations.
