Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.