“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:10) Chances are, if you’re reading this column, you believe in Christ, which means when you die, you will appear before the judgment seat of Christ where the Bible says we will be held accountable for what we did with our lives. I had a reader recently asked me what happens at the judgment […]

“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven.” (2 Corinthians 12:2) Have you ever thought what Paul meant when he referred to a third heaven? We’ve been taught all our lives that there is only one heaven and then right out of the blue, Paul suggests that there are three of them. What’s going on? A friend of mine once remarked that he didn’t really care how many heavens there were, as long as he was in one of […]

“He is the Head of the body made up of his people—that is, his Church—which he began.” (TLB, Colossians 1:18) A group of pastors from the community in which I live organize two community-wide prayer services each year. They don’t all come from any one denomination. Ironically, denominations don’t seem to separate them as much as they seem to distance their members from other denominations. These are men of God, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Charismatics, Pentecostals, all of whom realize that a belief in Christ should unite us, not […]

“So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.” (1 Samuel 17:50) One of the most influential Christians in my life is an attorney with whom I once worked. When we were in Atlanta on a business trip in the late 1980’s, I took him to a favorite restaurant of mine. I was not saved at the time. In fact, salvation would not come my way for another two years. We […]