Oh, the Places You’ll Go: Basic Instructions for Exile
Sure, our passports and birth certificates tell us one thing, but Philippians 3:20 tells us another: our citizenship is in Heaven. And don’t get me wrong, every square inch of this world belongs to God and His Spirit dwells in us, but we are not yet fully home. Exile is the time in between. We see through a mirror dimly (1 Corinthians 13:2).
A fully renewed Creation in the presence of God is our home. And he is not here like that, right now. But He will be. That’s ultimately what we were created for, complete and eternal union with Him. Until that day comes, we are strangers in a strange land. We live and die in exile, in the midst of calamity. We live and die in Babylon. Welcome “not home.”
This is an unnerving perspective. It should be an unnerving perspective, one of heart-ache and sorrow. It’s the type of perspective that led the Psalmist to lament, “How can we sing the songs of the Lord in a foreign land?”
God’s Not Dead — Movie’s Not Fair
Also, nonbelievers can have redemptive character arcs, but believers don’t need character arcs. Here I can think of one exception, the believing wife of bullying Professor Radisson, who has to get over her “Cinderella complex” and break the spell of the charm we’re told Radisson has, even though we never see it. Can’t think of any other complications. No Christians struggle with sin, temptation or selfishness, let alone anything like doubt or disappointment with God. Nonbelievers also are generally unconflicted about their selfish, rotten behavior, until touched by grace.
Unfortunately there is very little from archaeology that broadens our perspective. Yet the picture is clear. Thousands of pilgrims, tens of thousands of sacrifices, hundreds of priests and Levites praying and singing and playing music. All this accompanied by shouts of exultation, more singing, and sounds of cooking, feasting, and laughing all with a view to remembering God’s mercy for the Israelites in Egypt. No one was prepared for the changes to Judaism that would come with the loss of Jerusalem and the Temple within a bit more than a generation.
Passover 2014, The Unleavened Basics: Dates, Facts And History Of Pesach
Today, Passover is used as an opportunity to reflect on the things that plague our world, to seek justice for the still-oppressed and even to bring together multi-faiths family and friends under the common banner of universal freedom.
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14 Food Reasons Argentines Are Better At Life
Epic meat eating isn’t the only thing that defines (and elevates) Argentine food culture from the rest of the world. Though, their day long asados — grill outs to us — are what dreams are made of. They’re also home to the rich wine region of Mendoza, which produces some of the best bottles of Malbec you can get your hands on. And pasta. So much pasta.
These few point alone already make the Argentines better at life than the rest of us when it comes to food.
KFC chicken corsage being sold just in time for prom season
As part of a partnership between KFC and Nanz and Kraft Florists, prom-goers who want to bring their date something special now have the chance to surprise them with a chicken corsage.