Author Archives: Bert Hielema

Parousia, the Coming of the Lord, will be a total surprise. Fifty Years ago. I did some soul searching this past week. Fifty years ago, January 1975, I made a radical decision: I decided to leave our comfortable 2,000 square … Continue reading →

HUMAN MARRIAGE REMOVED; COSMIC MARRIAGE RESTORED. Christianity is NOT a religion: it is a Way-Of-LIFE. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor … Continue reading →

DIRE RHYMES WITH FIRE. Dire rhymes with FIRE.                                                     We may not realize it, but we, in the end, are doing God’s work. Just read on. In my long life – well into year 97 – I have never seen world … Continue reading →

IS CHURCH REFORMATION STILL POSSIBLE? A look back. In the 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer came to Union Theological Seminary in New York, looking for fellow believers. What he found instead disturbed, angered, and perplexed him. There is no theology here, he … Continue reading →

  WE DIE: THEN WHAT?   We all die. The rich, the super-rich, hate death, hate to become like those in the grave, of which there is no escape. Apparently, many of these billionaires don’t believe the Apostles’ Creed, which … Continue reading →

IS LOVE THE ANSWER, THE ONLY ANSWER?  “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is. (Mark … Continue reading →