The problem with a great many people is not that they don’t know the truth, or at least suspect it. They just wish they didn’t, and don’t want to be associated with the people who do.

The barriers to Heaven in 21st century America aren’t on the outside, but on the inside. Jesus is tapping at the window, telling us not that the “times of refreshment” (3:19) are on the way, but that they have arrived, and the proof is Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.

The evidence that a religious revival may be underway is clarifying and solidifying. It would be even more solid and clear if the Church were to get out in front of this.

There is not one of us who does not struggle with some unrighteous attachment, some small, stubborn, clinging bit of death that nobody notices, but we know is there. It’s just a little bit, but enough to keep us out of heaven.

Satan never appears with scars, but God does because He has gone to the very limits of God-forsakenness, where people proclaim God dead, wish God dead, and participate in the killing.

This IS the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, that the perfect sacrifice has already been made, that the flaming sword of Eden has been taken away and the gate to heaven is open.

Was what Judas did really that much worse than what Peter did? Or the rest of the disciples? Peter denied even knowing Jesus. All the rest of them ran away.