Paul is echoing words his audience would have known well from Isaiah.
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Isaiah paints a powerful picture: a feast prepared, tears wiped away, and death itself undone.
People often imagine the afterlife by thinking about who they will see again. Being reunited with loved ones or asking questions to someone famous from history.
As Easter people, we rejoice in the assurance of God’s new covenant through Jesus.
The hymn I Have Decided to Follow Jesus has been part of my life for as long as I can remember, sung as the final hymn at Sunday night services at Monticello First Baptist.
For much of my life, I have understood Jesus primarily as someone we follow, and that is true.
For several years, my email signature has ended with Soli Deo Gloria, “to God alone be the glory.”
Growing up in my small southeast Arkansas town of about 8,000 people, we had two school districts—the “city” school and the “country” school.