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Living the Crucified Life

07 Sunday Dec 2025

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I have been crucified with Christ;
it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;
 and the life which I now live in the flesh 
I live by faith in the Son of God, 
who loved me and gave Himself for me.
(Galatians 2:20, NKJV)

The Elisha Code is all about dying to self and living for Christ. Christ is the second Adam—the new man who fully bears the image of God. In Eden, the tempter succeeded in marring the image of God that was so beautifully evident in Adam and Eve before the fall. Sin robs and defiles. Jesus redeems and restores.

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Two people who lived the crucified life were William Wilberforce and Corrie ten Boom. Both fought hatred and the dehumanizing forces of slavery and racism. Their most powerful weapon was relentless love. Today, those who embrace the Christ of the cross are called to do the same.

Abraham Lincoln once said that every school child should know about William Wilberforce.[i] For twenty long years from 1787 to 1807, Wilberforce persistently campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade. It was incredibly painful and often deeply discouraging work.

What kept him from giving up as he faced defeat after defeat? Wilberforce had previously lived a self-indulgent life as a very wealthy upper-class Englishman. What motivated him to stop wasting his life in drinking, gambling, and endless parties? He was a popular Member of Parliament who wowed crowds with his remarkable singing and wit. Prime Minister William Pitt said that Wilberforce had the greatest natural eloquence of all the men he had ever known.[ii] What caused him to choose the unpopular path of putting principle above politics, and conscience over ambition?

With the death of Wilberforce’s father at just age 40, William’s comfortable world was radically shaken. At the age of eight, because of his mother’s serious illness, he was shipped off to his Uncle William and Aunt Hannah in Wimbledon. Unbeknownst to his mother, he was mentored by Rev. John Newton, the former slave-ship captain and author of the song Amazing Grace. Some trace Wilberforce’s hatred of slavery back to this earliest encounter.

When Wilberforce’s wealthy grandfather got wind of his new spirituality, he threatened to disinherit him. So, Wilberforce’s mother promptly rescued him and did her best to cure him through endless parties and upper-class distractions. For a while, the cure was effective. After his grandfather’s death, Wilberforce inherited the family fortune which funded his election as an 18-year-old English member of parliament.

While spending the winter at the fashionable French and Italian Rivieras, he was suddenly called back to London in support of William Pitt’s Parliamentary Reform Bill. While crossing the Swiss Alps, Wilberforce read The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul by Philip Doddridge. Both Doddridge and John Wesley were instrumental in reintroducing the forgotten teachings of Richard Baxter about self-examination, solitude, devotions, and diligence.[iii]

In discussing Doddridge’s book with his former tutor Isaac Milner, Wilberforce’s life was radically changed. He rediscovered his childhood faith at an adult level. Wilberforce, with Milner’s assistance, began reading the Bible in the original Greek. He wanted to find out for himself what the Christian faith was truly about. He discovered that it was not about a system of gloomy prohibitions. True faith is about peace, hope, and joy. When Wilberforce fell in love with Jesus, he also fell in love with God’s creation.

Rather than drop out of politics as he was tempted to do, Wilberforce turned his new-found faith into practical action. Prime Minister Pitt wrote him, saying: “Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action.”

Reconnecting with his old mentor, the converted slave-ship captain, John Newton, Wilberforce realized that God could use him to end the slave trade: “God almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners.”

Eighteenth-century England was rife with epidemic alcohol abuse, child prostitution, child labor, and animal exploitation. There were over 14,000 slaves in England alone, but hundreds of thousands more in the rich Caribbean English colonies where it was out of sight and out of mind.[iv] The future King of England George IV was famous for his immorality and gambling debts, keeping lockets of hair from all 7,000 women that he had seduced.[v] The King and his royal brothers dismissed abolitionists like Wilberforce as fanatics and hypocrites.[vi]

Because England was the foremost slave-trading nation on earth, it was initially unthinkable for them to give it up. As one merchant accurately put it, the African slave trade was “the foundation of our commerce…the life of our navigation, and first cause of our national industry and riches.”[vii]

Eighty per cent of overseas British income came from the Caribbean slave plantations.[viii] Wilberforce was naively asking England to commit commercial suicide. In Bristol, after the initial defeat of Wilberforce’s bill, bells were rung, a bonfire was lit, and a half-day holiday was awarded to sailors and workers.[ix] The passion for profit and slave-produced sugar had killed their conscience.

While fighting the slave trade, Wilberforce also invested in improving the life of England’s poor, giving one quarter of his income, representing the equivalent of $300,000 away each year. He started cancer hospitals, eye clinics and many faith-based schools for the poor.[x]

William Willberforce portrait (John Russell)

The slave trade was abolished in 1807; however, the slaves were not liberated until just before Wilberforce’s death. On July 31st, 1834, 800,000 Afro-Caribbeans were set free. While moving a motion for abolition, Wilberforce said, “Africa! Africa! Your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested and engages my heart – your sufferings no tongue can express; no language impart.”[xi]

In the 1940’s, Corrie ten Boom also learned to act on her strong faith. The Nazis conquered the Netherlands in May 1940, and during the German occupation 100,000 Dutch Jews were sent to concentration camps. Corrie prayed, “Lord Jesus, I offer myself for your people. In any way. Any place. Any time.”[xii]

By disguising themselves as Nazi soldiers, her underground team saved 100 Jewish babies from being killed in an orphanage.

A well-known architect built them a secret two-and-a-half foot-wide hiding place behind a new brick wall in Corrie’s bedroom.[xiii] Even after arresting the ten Booms, the Gestapo were never able to find the Jews hidden in this ‘angel-crib’ hiding place.[xiv]

At the time of the arrest, Corrie’s interrogator painfully slapped her in the face after every question. Corrie cried out: “Lord Jesus, protect me!”

He hissed at her, “If you mention that name again once more, I will kill you.”

But miraculously, he stopped beating her.[xv]

Corrie and her sister Betsie hid over 800 Jewish people in their Haarlem watchmaker home, before being sent to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in eastern Germany where 96,000 women died. “The sufferings of Jesus,” said Corrie, “became very real to me at Ravensbruck.”[xvi]

She lost four family members in the concentration camps, including her beloved older sister Betsie who forgave and prayed for the guards even as they mercilessly beat her.

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“Don’t hate,” Betsie pleaded to Corrie. Three days before Betsie died, she shared with Corrie the vision of opening healing homes in Holland and Germany, before going around the world sharing about Jesus’ love and forgiveness. Two weeks later, Corrie was set free through a God-ordained clerical error.[xvii] One week after this, all the other women her age at Ravensbruck were taken to be killed in the gas chamber.

Upon returning to Holland, Corrie opened a home in Holland to bring healing for people, even including the ostracized Dutch collaborators. She was knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands for her work.
Corrie told God that she was willing to go where he wanted her to go but hoped that he would never send her back to Germany. Finally, after sensing a blockage in her prayer life, she repented, saying, “Yes, Lord, I’ll go to Germany too.”[xviii]

God sent her back to Ravensbruck to lead Bible studies with former guards, now in that prison. Then, she rented and cleaned up a former concentration camp in Germany to bring temporary housing and healing to some of the nine million Germans who had been bombed or driven out of their homes.[xix]

In 1946, a former Ravensbruck guard said to Corrie in Munich, “How grateful I am for your message, Fraulein. To think, as you said, that he washes my sins away!”

Corrie later wrote, “His hand was thrust out to shake mine… Even as angry, vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man. Was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him… Again, I silently prayed ‘Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness.’ As I took his hand, my heart felt an overwhelming love for this stranger.”[xx

Corrie became a penniless tramp for the Lord, travelling for three decades to sixty-two countries, and sleeping in over a thousand different beds.[xxi] Wherever she went globally, Corrie shared from her Ravensbruck experience that the light and love of Jesus Christ is deeper than the deepest darkness. She was the favorite travelling companion of the Bible-smuggler Brother Andrew as they both did missionary work behind the Iron Curtain, in Vietnam and twelve other Communist countries. In Vietnam, they gave her the honorific title of “Double-old Grandmother.”

While in the Soviet Union, she intentionally preached the gospel in her hotel room, knowing that everything she said was being listened to and recorded by communist officials.

Through her deep friendship with Rev. Billy and Ruth Graham, Corrie’s The Hiding Place book was turned into a movie reaching tens of millions. Ruth Graham said: “I didn’t know anyone who had suffered so intensely for the Lord and for his people, as Corrie had, and come through with absolutely nothing but love in her heart for her captors—she forgave them.”[xxii]

In 1967, Corrie was recognized by Israel as a righteous Gentile, with the planting of a tree in her honor.[xxiii] When people kept telling her how brave she was, Corrie transparently prayed, “What little courage I have… I was not brave. I was often like a timid, fluttering bird, looking for a hiding place… Lord, I am weak and cowardly and of little faith; do hold me close. Thou art the conqueror. May that assurance give me courage and loyalty.”[xxiv]

Because of her work blessing indigenous people, Corrie was adopted into the Hopi First Nation and given the name Beautiful Flower.[xxv] While staying at a Kansas farm, Corrie challenged her host who had recently kicked his son out, telling him to never darken his doorstep again. She said to the farmer: “If you believe in Jesus Christ and belong to Him, your sins have been cast into the depths of the sea, and that’s very deep. But then he expects also that you forgive the sins of your boy and cast them into the depths of the sea. Just imagine how you would feel if there should be another war, if your son had to go back into service and was killed in action. Don’t you think you should forgive him right now?”

After riding together in silence, the farmer invited Corrie to go with him as he asked his son to forgive him. His son replied, “But, Father. I should ask you for forgiveness.”[xxvi]

In her late sixties, Corrie was betrayed and hurt by some Christians she loved and trusted: “You would have thought that having been able to forgive the guards in Ravensbruck, forgiving Christian friends would be child’s play. It wasn’t. For weeks, I seethed inside. But at last, I asked God again to work His miracle in me… I was restored to the Father.”

She later burnt the painful letters from her friends, as a sign of letting go.[xxvii] She, like Wilberforce, lived the crucified life. Unlike Adam and Eve, Wilberforce and ten Boom did not run from God. They found their hiding place in God (Psalm 32:7). In tumultuous times, they courageously fought against forms of racism that mar and debase the image of God that we all bear.

So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27, NIV)

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[i] Lincoln on abolition in England and the United States, 1858 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (accessed April 13th 2023).

[ii] Eric Metaxas, Amazing Grace (Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY, 2007), 41.

[iii] William Hague, William Wilberforce: the Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner, (HarperCollins Publishers, London, UK, 2007), 74.

[iv] Metaxas, Amazing Grace, 94.

[v] Metaxas, 72.

[vi] Metaxas, 158.

[vii] Hague, 119.

[viii] Hague, 119.

[ix] Hague, 225.

[x] Hague, 221.

[xi] Metaxas, 151.

[xii] Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place (Chosen Books, Bantam Books, Fleming H Revell, New York, New York, 1971), 114.

[xiii] Ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 120.

[xiv] Corrie ten Boom, A Prisoner—and Yet (Christian Literature Crusade, London, UK, 1954), 12.

[xv] Ten Boom, A Prisoner—and Yet, 13.

[xvi] Ten Boom, A Prisoner—and Yet, 87.

[xvii] Ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 241

[xviii] Corrie ten Boom, Amazing Love, (Christian Literature Crusade, London, UK, 1954), p. 27.

[xix] Ten Boom, Amazing Love, 36.

[xx] Ten Boom The Hiding Place, 238.

[xxi] Corrie ten Boom & Jamie Buckingham, Tramp for the Lord (BBS Publishing Company, New York, 1975, 1995), 185.

[xxii] Corrie Ten Boom “The Lives She Touched” video Ruth Graham: “When I met Corrie, the thing that really impressed me was the twinkle in her eye. There was nothing but love and forgiveness.”

[xxiii] Ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 138.

[xxiv] Ten Boom, A Prisoner— and Yet, 129.

[xxv] Corrie ten Boom “The Lives She Touched” video.

[xxvi] Ten Boom, Amazing Love, 10.

[xxvii] Ten Boom & Buckingham, Tramp for the Lord, 310.

Be Still and Know that I am God

27 Sunday Apr 2025

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Psalm 46:6-11
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
He lifts his voice, the earth melts.

The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. (Selah)

Come and see the works of the LORD,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars to cease to the ends of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
he burns the shields with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. (Selah)

Perhaps no other psalm captures the essence of the cataclysmic as completely as Psalm 46. Here with the psalmist, we catch a glimpse of the apocalypse. The world of this psalm is in utter turmoil. It quakes. It writhes. It melts. Through a poetic eye we are viewing the death throes of a planet.

I spent New Year’s Day, 1985 in Hiroshima, Japan—a city well acquainted with cataclysm. Today, Hiroshima is a beautiful city. It is a seaside city, built on a flat river delta surrounded by mountains. Seven river channels cut across the city’s fertile flood plain on their way to the blue waters of Hiroshima Bay. In many respects Hiroshima resembles a more compact, oriental version of Vancouver.

But on August 6th, 1945, this beautiful city became a terrestrial picture of hell. The horrors inflicted on Hiroshima are without parallel in human history. In an atomic flash, 66,000 residents were instantly killed. They were the fortunate. Another 60,000 died later of their injuries, or from the effects of radiation sickness. The accounts of their suffering are among the most heart wrenching literature, I have ever read.   

Historic Hiroshima explosion photo.

I was not in Hiroshima alone; my wife and my two-and-a-half-year-old son were with me. Together, on a cool but sunny New Year’s Day, we strolled through the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. We slowly walked around the building known as the A-Bomb Dome. This devastated stone structure was the only building left standing after the atomic blast. Its skeletal structure is a visible reminder of that grim day in 1945. But is this stark ruin also a portent of our future, and the future of our planet?   

Across the ages the psalmist speaks, “Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; He lifts his voice, the earth melts.”

In 1945 the nations of the world were in uproar, and kingdoms were falling. In Europe the vaunted thousand-year rule of the Third Reich came to a brutal end. Great cities lay in ruins. Millions were exterminated; millions more were displaced and starving. A demon in human flesh had put the whole apparatus of the modern state to work in eradicating God’s people. The last victim of every murderous demon is its human host, so staying true to Satanic form, in the final days of war Hitler and his leading Nazi henchmen pulled the trigger on their own demise.

Across the Pacific, expansionist, Imperial Japan was on the verge of collapse. The emperor, whose subjects worshipped him as god was about to call an end to a war that was cannibalizing his own people. Emperor Hirohito was revered as a descendant of the sun god, and through brutal military conquest the land of the Rising Sun had spread its rays across much of Asia. But before the emperor could call a halt to the war, a different kind of sun would ignite a blazing inferno in the heart of the nation.

Nuclear physicists will tell you that in its simplest form an atomic bomb is the power of the sun released upon the earth. The heat and radiation are of the same magnitude. A miniature sun flashed 100 million volts of raw energy over Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945.

People beneath the epicenter of the blast were simply vaporised. In the Atomic Bomb Museum, later that day my eyes bore witness to this phenomenon. Dark shadows were all that remained of men who were sitting on the stone steps of a bank building. Their bodies left something resembling a photographic imprint on the stone. In an instant—in a flash—they were gone.

Miles from the epicenter, brass globes drooped and melted on the side that was facing this new sun that had come to the earth. The effects upon human flesh of the intense heat of this nuclear flash can only be imagined. On many survivors, clothing and skin exposed just for an instant, simply melted away.

Again, across the ages the psalmist speaks, “Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; He lifts his voice, the earth melts.”

You view all these things in a different light, when you are with your family. My wife was walking beside me on this tour. She was into her third month of pregnancy. I was either carrying my two-year-old son in my arms, holding his little hand or pushing him in a stroller. I kept asking myself, “What kind of world am I bringing my children into? Will they experience these things—this hell—in their lifetime?”

Today’s newspaper headlines are not reassuring. More than forty years have passed since my visit to Hiroshima, and thus far the world has avoided nuclear holocaust. But once again we appear to be creeping closer to the brink of annihilation. I began writing this chapter two days ago, but in one of those odd cases of divine coincidence, today when I retrieved my morning newspaper from its slot in the screen door, the headline read, “North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test.”

And if a rogue state like North Korea does not raise the level of our concern, we can always look to Iran and its nuclear ambitions. Meanwhile Russia is edging ever closer to a full conquest of Ukraine. Then there is China, which is growing more powerful and restive as its economic might increases. As for the Middle East, tension and conflict are a constant reality. In short, we live in a very dangerous and unpredictable world.

If news headlines are not reassuring, Bible prophecies are even less so. The apostle Peter, speaking nearly a thousand years after Psalm Forty-six was penned, states, “the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men” (2 Peter 3:7).

Peter goes on to evoke the very images of Psalm 46.

“The day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare (2 Peter 3:10).

But over this inferno—this world afire—the psalmist speaks, “The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.”

We will not face this worldwide conflagration alone. We are not abandoned. The LORD has not left our side. We are not to yield to fear and worry. Though the ungodly perish, we have these words of assurance: “The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.” If we must face dark days, we will not face them alone. We will face them with the LORD Almighty.

There are many names for God, and good poetry is all about the choice of words. It is then significant to note that the psalmist chose this particular name combination, the LORD Almighty, at this juncture in this psalm. The LORD, which is the Hebrew translation of Yahweh or Jehovah, means I AM. The great I AM is with us. The God of the burning bush has come to be with us. It is this God, who in Exodus 3:14 told Moses, “I AM who I AM.” He will carry us through this time of apocalyptic turmoil. And not only is I AM, the self-existent-one with us, the psalmist also asserts that this great I AM is none other than the Almighty. In cataclysm we will see the power of the Almighty. He not only holds the power to melt the world and its elements with a fervent heat, he also has the power to save and deliver his own from that cataclysmic destruction, if he so chooses.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abedinigo walked out of the blazing furnace unscathed, because the Almighty was with them. In Psalm 46 we are assured that this same God, the LORD Almighty, will be with us. He will be with us, when the end-times, world-consuming conflagration hits. The Almighty will be standing there in the furnace with us. His invisible mantle of protection will be extended over us, because the God of Jacob is our fortress.

By invoking the name of the God of Jacob, the psalmist links us to the great redemptive history of God’s people. This is the God who saves, who intervenes into the affairs of men. He is the God who brought Jacob back safely to the land of promise, after years of foreign sojourn. He is the God, who visited Egypt with the ten plagues, but by the blood of a lamb, he set apart his own people and so saved them from the Angel of Death. It was the God of Jacob, who parted the Red Sea for his people, but destroyed the pursuing army. He is the God who destroyed the world in the great flood, but he floated his eight-person restoration mission over the top of the billowing torrent. In these and a thousand other biblical stories, he is a God who saves. He is a fortress round about those who call on his name. In the fortress we rest secure, no matter what fiery maelstrom should assault.

Throughout history God’s people have found safety and refuge in the fortress. Martin Luther knew all too well the assaults of hell. It was from within the fortress that he took his stand against the legions of hell. On the threat of death, he would not bow to error. He stood upon the unchanging inerrant word of God. When he left the Diet of Worms, he was a marked man—marked for execution. But even then, he was safe. He was safe, because a fortress surrounded him and protected him wherever he travelled. You see Luther’s fortress was the God of Jacob. How fitting then that in addition to translating the whole Bible, he should pen the words to that great hymn, “A Mighty Fortress is our God.”

Now the psalmist beckons us closer. “Come and see the works of the LORD, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars to cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.”

We live in a world that denies the existence of God, or at best it sees God as aloof and distant from the historical events that shape societies and the course of nations. But is this an accurate world view? The Old Testament writers had a completely different perspective. They saw God as active in the affairs of men. He does not stand aloof from his creation, but rather he is the great Conductor of History. Nations move at his impulse. He raises up one kingdom and sets down another. At his discretion, he exalts one leader and humiliates another.  

Reading the above passage from the Psalms can be quite disturbing to some of us. It disturbs me. Does God really bring desolation on the earth? Does he take sides in war? We may prefer our God to be more passive and distant. Perhaps God is a pacifist? He certainly loves peace. Yet in the Bible, God actively intervened in great battles and wars. And sometimes, to the consternation of God’s people, he was helping the other side. The LORD used heathen Babylon to bring divine judgment down upon Judah.

Has God changed? Perhaps he has reformed in his old age? What would a twentieth century history text look like if it was written by Nehemiah, Isaiah, or Jeremiah? Would Isaiah see God’s hand of judgment being unleashed on Nazi Germany? Was God actively working against this murderer of millions, with his hell hatched theory of racial supremacy? Was the God of the heavens ready to share his glory with the earthbound emperor of Japan? Did the LORD sanction the Sun god’s conquest of Asia? Or did the Creator of the universe have the final say on the matter? Were the master theorists behind atheistic communism correct? Or did the LORD laugh at them in derision? Did the Soviet empire collapse under its own weight, or was the LORD helping a few Polish believers as they pulled the last few bricks out of the crumbling foundation?


But no nation can gloat in a state of moral superiority. The stench of sin hovers over the whole globe. Is this world ripe for God’s judgment? Are we facing apocalypse over the next horizon?

Into this global chaos the LORD speaks, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

This psalm from start to finish evokes a thousand images of catastrophe, but it is the last picture that should lodge most deeply in our hearts. It is the picture of a hurt young child rushing home into the arms of a loving parent. The world has hurt us. But in these arms, we will find love, healing and courage to face the world, to face a new day. At the core, where it counts most, we are loved by our Father. Over that frightened, wounded child our Father speaks these words, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

I need to hear those words spoken to me. In the rush of life, I need to pause. I need to stop and hear God as I’m curled up in his arms. When pain and fear and worry come, he says, “Be still.”

Quiet your heart in God. He is bigger than your problems—bigger than the whole cruel world out there. He is in control of world events. Yield to his control in your own life. He holds the future—your future is in his hands—and these are loving hands. Though nations are in uproar and kingdoms fall, his Kingdom stands secure and eternal. When you are still—still and at rest in his Kingdom—you know the truth of these words. The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Bringing Life to the Psalms

  1. Read the account of Shadrach, Meshach and Abedinigo in the fiery furnace, as found in Daniel chapter three. Consider what this story says to you about facing persecution and calamity with courage.
  2. Do you have a hymnal handy? Why not read or sing, “A Mighty Fortress is our God?” The lyrics are a powerful declaration of the supremacy of God in a world gone mad. You may also wish to view the movie, Luther or the more recent movie, Bonhoeffer. Both movies accurately portray the courageous faith that is required when we rise up to oppose error and evil forces.
  3. End-times theology, or eschatology, frequently is a source of fear rather than comfort. Psalm 46 can act as a counterweight to many of the rather frightening passages found in the Book of Revelation. How can this psalm help you view the end-times in a more positive light?
  4. What are some of the dangers of putting too much emphasis on end-times prophecy? Are there dangers in wilful ignorance? How should we approach the scriptures that touch on the apocalypse?
  5. As we conclude this look at Psalm 46 take a moment to reread this apocalyptic psalm. What is God saying to you by His Spirit?

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