Chicago is in the news with plenty of negative stories, so let’s put a few positive pictures before us. Here are some recent photos from a rooftop lunch our church enjoyed after a recent Sunday morning worship meeting. The park below is where we have been meeting outdoors for worship each week.
Church happenings: The building where our church normally rents space has been closed for coronavirus. When we resumed our Sunday worship services in July, we began meeting outdoors each week in Grant Park, the huge park on the lakefront in downtown Chicago. It has been a great experience. We are giving glory to God in public, being a testimony for him, and as a side effect, we get to enjoy being outside.
Reading:
J. I. Packer, “Rediscovering Holiness”
Thinking:
I am extremely pleased to have written this month about a paradox that has puzzled me for years: What sort of accountability do Christians have on Judgment Day? I have puzzled over that for years.
What’s to puzzle? you might ask.
For one thing, 2 Corinthians 5:10, which says, “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.” Paul wrote that to Christians. So it seems to me we have a paradox. Christians are fully forgiven, yet we will “receive what is due” for both good and evil deeds on Judgment Day.
That is what has puzzled me for a long time. So, I finally wrote about it for three posts, beginning with the post about forgiveness on August 10th and continuing the theme on August 24th and 31st. I hope you read them all, because the most important day in your life is Judgment Day. On that Day you want to have as few surprises as possible because on that Day all decisions are final and forever.
Favorite posts over recent months:
- The Unsearchable Riches of Christ
- The Favor of God the Father toward His Divine Son
- Why Jesus Is the Only Way to God
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