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Not of this world

14 Important Truths to Know about Setting Your Mind on Things Above

By BCL / November 14, 2025

In Christ’s resurrection a new age came into existence! Why do Christians need to orient their whole selves around this new reality?

Reaping the Woke Church We Have Sown

By Chris Gordon / September 27, 2024

The church in America has become its own worst enemy, pandering to the culture for likeability’s sake with little effectiveness in saving people from hell—if we even believe in such a place anymore.

The Christian’s Dual Citizenship: When the Ethics of Heaven and Earth Collide

By Wes Van Fleet / June 21, 2022

In the first century Christians were not treated as well as Roman citizens. Where Rome demanded allegiance through aggression and superiority, followers of Jesus both then and today depend on a power that comes from the Sovereign King himself.

A Holy Tension: Responding to Failed Expectations in the Already and Not Yet

By Christina Fox / May 6, 2022

We live in a broken and fallen world where life is disappointing. It often doesn’t “work” or go as planned. We sin and are sinned against. How should Christians respond to failed expectations in this already/not-yet time in history?

Should Christians Have a Bucket List?

By Derek J. Brown / December 31, 2021

Lots of people choose to channel their energies toward having as many experiences as possible before they die. Should Christians have a bucket list?

Do You Have Resurrection Courage?

By Wes Van Fleet / January 22, 2021

Where the reality of death confronts us is also where resurrection hope is to be proclaimed. If Jesus returned today, would he find us sitting on the treasure he entrusted to us?

Do the Lies of the World Taste Sweet to You?

By Simona Gorton / January 22, 2019

Even as Christians we can taste and swallow the lies of the world and think them a little sweet. Are you being pushed by the past or pulled by the future?