Taking Hebron

“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ Today Billy Graham finally got to go home to the Savior and Lord he's spent his life declaring to the world. An inspiration to my life personally, I get a little teary at the thought of his passing, still I have to smile for I know how much he longed for this day. No one really knows how heaven or the final judgement day works, but if we really stand before God and have all of our life recounted, I have to laugh at how long we would be listening to the life of Billy Graham!  Yet just as this humorous image passed through my mind earlier today, the Lord posed His own image. "What if everyone's life looks like that?" What if Billy Graham's life is the "visual" version of what we're all doing? Anyone can look at his life and know he had an impact! The crowds he preached to, the telecast...

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peters 3:9 Ever since I was a small child I have heard people say, "We're in the end times. Jesus is coming back soon." As a 12 year old I watched our nation panic as the new millennium approached and more than ever the church declared that Christ would return. Now 18 years removed from the Y2K scare, I still hear the same words spoken. Whether with callus certainty and a hopeless sigh or with a great shout of joy, my heart has been ever increasingly grieved by these simple statements. For has anyone stopped to consider what they are saying? And what it truly means? I love Jesus more than life itself. He has given His life for mine and He IS my life! I delight in the day I will see Him face to face, but as for the end of the world I pray, "Father, please, not just y...