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Model Man: From Integrity to Legacy

July 30th is celebrated as National Father-in-Law Day.  This day is thought to have its beginnings around 1840 when European monarchs, Christian IX of Denmark and Nicholas I of Montenegro, became known as the “Fathers-in-Law of Europe” because all of their children married foreign princes and princesses.

I’ve blogged about my Father-in-Law a few times—last October entitled: Dr. Wayne Cason Smith: He Taught Us How to Live, Love, and Leave  and more recently in my Thankful for a Revolutionary Parent post.

As I consider becoming a Father-in-Law myself one day (surely, at least one of my kids will get married!), I turn to Larry Stockstill’s book Model Man: From Integrity to Legacy.

I picked up this book and read in in the Summer of 2019 on our family vacation to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.

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He Ascended to Heaven and Sits on the Right Hand of the Father Almighty

Does the Creed mean that Jesus was the first astronaut?  What happened at the Ascension was not that Jesus became a spaceman, but that his disciples were shown a sign.

As C.S. Lewis put it, “They saw first a short vertical movement and then a vague luminously (that is what ‘cloud’ presumably means…) and then nothing.”

At the time of the early church, many claimed that Christ ascended spiritually, leaving his physical body behind.  In such doctrines, the body is believed to be evil; and Jesus himself wanted nothing to do with physical life in the world. It was against such teaching that the early Christians proclaimed a gospel of Christ’s bodily incarnation, bodily suffering, bodily death, bodily resurrection, and bodily ascension.

Without the ascension of Jesus, the gospel possesses no present power.  When Jesus sat down at the right hand of God, he inaugurated a new age of hope founded upon his completed ministry.

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