Posts by Lucas Bitter
I Am the Bread of Life
You can lose your job. You can be mocked by your peers. You can have your heart broken in a relationship. You can be forsaken by your friends. You can lose everything in this life. You can physically starve to death. But if you’ve got the Bread of Life, it won’t matter. . . . Because spiritually, you have been filled with the righteousness of Christ. You have been given a status where God looks at you and says ‘This is my child.’ You have been brought to a place where 5 minutes after you die, you will be in heaven with your Savior, fulfilled and satisfied for all eternity.
Read MoreA Glimpse of Glory
Heaven will never end. It just keeps going. And from that eternal perspective, all the sufferings and problems of this life are nothing in comparison with the glory God has prepared for us.
Read MoreLove Your Enemies
This is how enemies become friends… This is how skeptics become believers… This is how God’s church grows… and this is how the group of people who will be in heaven one day keeps getting larger and larger: Because of radical, counter-cultural love, flowing from God in heaven, to Jesus on the cross, to you and me, and then to the rest of the world.
Read MoreThe Meaning of Miracles
Here’s the reality: even when you do all the good things that you’re supposed to do, even when you avoid all those bad things that everybody else seems to be doing, it doesn’t bring you up a level. Because there are no “levels.” We are all the same. All human beings are equally sinful. And yet all human beings are equally loved by God. So that means all human beings are equally candidates for grace. . . .
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