Wallace Henley is a former pastor, White House, and congressional aide. He served eighteen years as a teaching pastor at Houston's Second Baptist Church. Wallace, the author of more than twenty books, now does conferences on the church and culture, church growth and leadership. He is the founder of Belhaven University's Master of Ministry Leadership Degree.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are yet to be revealed, but the three riders of political disaster are already before us as the pace picks up for the 2024 election. There are and will be others, but these are the ones now kicking up the most dust. God help us.
My major concern then, and even more, now, is that in many churches the focus is no longer on the transcendence of God, but the immediate needs of people and the way God can meet those needs.
Why is it that churches in contemporary times seem to suffer turmoil and division, while simultaneously, marriages and families are in a state of collapse?
The approach of Good Friday and Easter testifies to the awesome reality and profound implications of quantum entanglement, and of the beauty implicit in entanglement on a spiritual as well as physical scale. Something happened on that bloody Friday, and three days later. It was nothing less than an entanglement between the transcendent realm of Heaven and the earthly world, an entangling of the Heavenly and the material on a colossal scale.
Quantum science will get us as close to understanding God as natural science can ever take us. In fact, certain discoveries and implications of quantum theory describe on the material level what the Bible reveals on the spiritual.
Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, don’t panic. Everything is happening right on time. The little declaration is made in the context of biblical revelation. It gives me hope every time I read another shocking report of the expanding chaos, violence and confusion of our era.