Aug. 10, 2023The World’s Opposition to Parental Discipleship, Part 1Our Lord Jesus commissioned us to make disciples (Matthew 28:19, 20), and there is no better place to start that great missionary endeavor than in our own homes among our most beloved humans (Deuteronomy 6:1-9)
Apr. 19, 2023God’s Sovereign Orchestration of Christ’s Final Passover, Part 3by Marcelo A. Tolopilo © Divine orchestration directed the Lord to Calvary As we saw in our previous two Lighthouse articles, God’s sovereign will led our Lord Jesus to the cross. The Lord’s final Passover was not a heap of unplanned accidents that ended with Jesus tragically hanging on a Roman cross. Quite the opposite is true! God the Father
Apr. 19, 2023God’s Sovereign Orchestration of Christ’s Final Passover, Part 2by Marcelo A. Tolopilo © In our previous Lighthouse article we saw that God, like a master conductor, orchestrated the unfolding of world events over hundreds of years to set the stage to reveal His Anointed One. God was completely in control of the big picture. The Father moved nations, kings, prophets, and history itself to introduce His Son the
Sep. 22, 2022God’s Sovereign Orchestration of Christ’s Final Passover, Part 1by Marcelo A. Tolopilo © I want to dedicate the next three Lighthouse articles to exploring the Lord’s last Passover on this earth. Actually “exploring” is too ambitious a term because we don’t have the time to dig and excavate the depth and breadth of this marvelous topic. Let’s rather think of ourselves as textual archeologists working on a small
Jul. 07, 2022Mr. Standfastby Valorie L. Tolopilo © Introduction I have asked my dear wife to contribute the opening article. She penned a short tribute to my dad (Anthony Tolopilo) who passed away eight and a half years ago. I (Marcelo) will never forget a few days before the Lord called my father home. He woke up with a deep impression that the
Jul. 07, 2022Are You Ready for Resurrection Morning? Part 2What will our future resurrection bodies be like? by Marcelo A. Tolopilo © We have explored the believer’s journey to resurrection morning. Our first step to that great event is our exit from this life into the presence of our Lord Jesus. Every Christian that has lived before us has clung to the hope that “to be absent from the
Sep. 05, 2021Are You Ready for Resurrection Morning? Part 1: What will our future resurrection bodies be like?© Marcelo A. Tolopilo Now that we have dealt with death—the believer’s journey from this life to the presence of the Lord—we can proceed to talk about our glorious resurrection! You do realize that we will all live in our actual physical bodies for eternity, right? God has redeemed our souls, but He will also completely redeem our bodies in
Aug. 02, 2021Our First Step to Resurrection Day, The believer’s exit from this life: Death, Part 2(copyright, Marcelo A. Tolopilo) In our last blog we began a brief series contemplating our voyage to resurrection morning, which for most Christians throughout history, of course, begins with our exit from this earth, death. For many death is a horrifying specter For many who do not hope in Jesus for redemption, the subject of death and dying can be
Jun. 29, 2021Our First Step to Resurrection Day, The believer’s exit from this life: Death, Part 1(copyright, Marcelo A. Tolopilo) “I’d rather not talk about it!” Most people would prefer not to talk about death. Yet as a human race it is most definitely on our collective mind. We spend billions of dollars every year trying to circumvent it through medicine. We read about it, think about it, joke about it, andfear it—perhaps more than the
Nov. 14, 2020Gleanings from Heaven: Revelation 4 & 5(Copyright: Marcelo A. Tolopilo) On Sunday mornings in our home church, we are doing an overview of the book of Revelation. Even though I’m not a fan of fast fly over studies of complex material, one upside is that such an approach does give a bird’s-eye view of the big picture realities of any book of the Bible, including the