Our Certain Hope

The older I get, the more I know that life is hard, and not just temporarily hard, and then things get back to normal. Life in this world will always be a struggle.  

But there is hope because Jesus came. You can read more of my thoughts on life’s pain and our certain hope at Out of the Ordinary today. 

Thankful Thursday

This week I’ve been thankful for

• my new grandson, Ezra. I’m thankful for the rest of my grandchildren, too, and their very tender little hearts.
  
  
• warmer winter weather, good for tobogganing, and for yesterday’s successful toboganning adventure with the three older grandchildren.
  
  
• full cupboards and a cleanish house, and the energy for today’s hard work.
  
  
• the opportunity to sing in my church choir. That’s a rare thing, these days. 

Also thankful today:

• Kim Shay

What are you thankful for? Leave a comment with your thanksgiving, post your thanksgiving on your blog, or tweet it. Give me the link by email or in a comment and I’ll add your thanksgiving to the list in the post.

Theological Term of the Week

eschatology
The study of what the Bible says about final things (or last things), including personal last events like individual death and the intermediate state; and corporate or general last events like the return of Christ, the final judgment, the millennial kingdom, etc.

• In scripture: 

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV)

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