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… we proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the Father and has appeared to us. — 1 John 1:2Eternal life is a good thing. It’s as good as anything gets. But it’s not good because it’s really, really, really long. It’s not good because it doesn’t end. It’s good because it’s connected to a Person.Years ago I was asking the Lord what heaven would be like. His answer was simple: "I’m going to be there and you’re going to be there. What else matters?"As an aside: Some of us have loved ones who aren’t going to be…

COMMENTARY Sometimes very important elections receive very little attention.When the Southern Baptist Convention elected the Rev. Frank Page as the group’s president at its meeting this week in Greensboro, N.C., the news appeared on the back pages of most secular newspapers — or it didn’t appear at all. Read more.