#thefinalrun

Ang Huling El Bimbo -

▪️The first musical I’ve watched since God knows when (college, eh?)

▪️The first to many theatrical shows I wanted to watch

▪️The first time I’ve listened to Ang Huling El Bimbo, Ligaya, Alapaap, etc in a painful yet beautiful interpretation

▪️The first time I was not able to stop myself from bawling my eyes out in public

Maaan, this is a must watch! 💙

Freedom of religion is, now, replaced with freedom from religion: e.g., the Ten Commandments were removed from schools, partly, with the rationale that repeated, daily attention, given to them would cause students to begin doing them. Further, while the Bible is being ousted, schools are now told to study the Quran. Prayer is not to be conducted at the White House; but, the Day of Prayer for Muslims is to be acknowledged. Is there something wrong with this picture?

God’s Word addresses all of time. The Greek words denoting the difference in God’s time and our time: chronos refers to our chronological watch/calendar time; kairos refers to God’s meaningful, filled-up, immeasurable, unending time. God can move his kairos directly into our chronos. I have come to believe that when I place the name of Jesus over any person or circumstance, the merging of times has begun. God is in our past, present, future, now. “He hath made everything beautiful in his time. Ecclesiastes 3:11a KJV

An excerpt from "The Final Run: Space Is Not Our Final Frontier" by Arthur Coffey

Chapter 1: The Season

"I have always been one to raise a red flag when people begin talking of end times and current events. I would usually dismiss it and reference Jesus’ statement that 'no one (would) know the day or the hour.' (Matthew 24: 36; 25: 36) Since as early as A. D. 960 there have been 'millenialists' who stir people up with prophecies, causing them to wait on the mountains or by the seashores only to see time continue to march on and scoffers as described in (2 Peter 3: 3-7).

However, in the last several years, I have been led to say that it would be wise to read the newspapers and the Scriptures at the breakfast table at the same time; there is such an intense overlap. In a rebuke to the religious leaders of His day, Jesus said: . . . O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? Matthew 16: 3b KJV Jesus, in answer to His disciples’ question about when the end would be, also said that we should be like a farmer who takes note of the seasonal signs of the trees, etc. to know—a 'wake-up call'-- that the season is near. I believe there are clear, certain and concise signs of the season in the present day. My Coach tells me that this will be the late, last run."

Reading, meditating and memorizing God’s Word leads us to a renewed mind, which transforms. Doing a study exercise on the Matthew, Mark, Luke and John accounts of the arrest, trial, scourging and crucifixion of Jesus places us there where we can see that He suffered all that for us, personally—as though you were the only person on this planet! What Jesus accomplished on the Cross delivers us from: 1. the guilt and penalty of our sin; 2. the habit and dominion of our sin; 3. one day from the very presence of sin.

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