Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.

Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we shift our Christian lives into neutral and stop seeking to learn and grow as believers.

The scripture teaches that he who now restrains will continue to do so until he is taken out of the way.

The Lord will remove the church but the Holy Spirit will still be working on planet Earth, bringing people into the kingdom.

We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us that gives us a certain homesickness, a desire to be there.

The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn't a peripheral issue; it's foundational. It's bedrock. It's the bottom line.

I believe that the work of the Holy Spirit, through the church, will continue on.