Your Life and What Comes After

Our Free Monthly Newsletter: Called To Someone

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We are called as God’s people, and we are each called individually. But what is it that we are called to?

I always come back to something I read in the Os Guinness book, ‘The Call’: “…we are not called to something or somewhere, we are called to Someone.“

When I think about that truth, I picture a child playing in the backyard on a sunny day, and a father coming outside through the back screen door of the house into the yard, opening his arms and calling to his child by name.

The child stops playing, turns his head to his father’s voice, and runs joyously across the yard straight into his father’s arms.

And I see my whole life as running across the yard into my Father’s arms. That’s what we’re called to.

What you do in life isn’t as important as who you are in life.

You can have the desire and talent to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a plumber, or a dancer, or an engineer, or whatever, but your career or job isn’t really your calling. Your calling is to Him.

Your life is a journey. It’s not a dead end, it’s a race across the years God is giving you and it will end up with you leaping into His loving arms. Hold that picture in your mind’s eye every day.

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Rick Tryon
Editor/Publisher Bible Rebel


June/July Highlights

Armchair Apocalypse: Revelation Mail Call

Questioning The Assumptions Of Religious Tradition

They Said It: Four Quotes On The Book Of Daniel

Video Mini Message: Why Are You Here?

Ten-episode Bible 101 video series completed

Watchdog Alert: Why God Allows The Earth To Shake

Looking For Heaven In Washington DC?

Coming in July/August

More of our Armchair Apocalypse series.

“Your Life and What Comes After” book available.

More in-depth content on deeper biblical studies and theological issues.

More Video Mini Messages like this – Does What You Do Matter?

You can find all of the current Bible 101 episodes and One-Minute Mini Messages here on our YouTube Channel, and you can subscribe to our YouTube channel here.

We’ll also be continuing our regular features, guest articles, and series:

  • Your Life And What Comes After: Plugging Into God’s Forever Plan Now
  • Armchair Apocalypse
  • They Said It: Poignant quotes on a variety of topics
  • Guest articles
  • And more…

Watchdogs

As always, we’ll be keeping a watchdogs eye on all of the latest political, religious, biblical archaeology, and cultural news and events from around the world and bringing to you in bite-size chunks to keep you informed.

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Bible Rebel & biblerebel.com

Tuesday Watchdog: You’re Not Promised Tomorrow

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A legendary actor, Sam Neill, is here one day and gone the next. A prominent politician/U.S. Senator, Lindsey Graham, is taken from us overnight.

Deadly flash floods in Missouri have taken lives and forced hundreds of emergency rescues. Families woke up expecting an ordinary day… and by nightfall, everything had changed. (The Washington Post)

That’s the uncomfortable, unfortunate reality in this current dark and broken world.

Our culture acts like we’re guaranteed another summer, another birthday, another chance to text, “Sorry,” or finally start asking life’s biggest questions. The Bible says otherwise.

“Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” — Proverbs 27:1 (KJV)

Life is incredibly fragile. Your next breath isn’t something you earned—it’s a gift. The question isn’t, “How long will I live?” The wake-up call is, “What am I living for?”

God is real—Jesus really conquered death—and the smartest thing you’ll ever do isn’t building the perfect career or chasing viral fame. It’s getting to know the One who holds your life in His hands.

So, seize the day. Seize every day, starting today.

Read Proverbs 27. You’ll be glad you did. And you’ll be better able to understand that today is all you have—and even that is a little iffy. Trust God.

Thursday Watchdog: Clear, Simple Eschatology

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Believing in an invisible return of Jesus, an invisible worldwide “scooping up” of believers to be taken away somewhere, followed by seven years of Hollywood apocalypse scenarios, then a third coming of Jesus, is a remarkable example of scriptural interpretive contortionism.

Where exactly does the Bible clearly and explicitly teach:

  • an invisible return of Jesus,
  • an invisible worldwide “scooping up” of believers to be taken away somewhere,
  • seven years of apocalypse scenarios,
  • then a third coming of Jesus,

as a comprehensive, clear eschatology?

You have to take each of those elements and mash them together through private interpretation, connecting dots that Scripture does not connect, and using convoluted charts and timelines to arrive at the Hal Lindsey/John Nelson Darby/Left Behind version of dispensational theology known as the Secret Rapture.

Fictional novels, ear-tickling, speculative end-time scenarios, and Hollywood treatments of Scripture shouldn’t influence our attempts to rightly divide and understand God’s Word when it comes to such important matters.

The return of Jesus Christ is a singular event, followed by the establishment of the promised Kingdom, and ultimately the eternal Kingdom. It’s simple, clear, and doesn’t require fifteen different eschatological formulas or confusing doctrines of human tradition to understand or anticipate with great hope.

Your Life And What Comes After

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My book, Your Life And What Comes After: Plugging Into God’s Forever Plan Now, is now available at amazon.com in paperback and e-book formats.

This book isn’t written for scholars or theologians. It’s written for ordinary people who are curious about life, about God, and about what the Bible actually says about the future.

You don’t need a religious background or special training to follow along. The goal here is simple: to walk through the Bible’s big story in clear, everyday language.

The book is divided into three parts.
Part One explains the big picture of God’s plan and how people throughout the Bible connected their lives to that plan.
Part Two explores what the Bible says about heaven, hell, the end of the world, and what comes after this life.
Part Three focuses on the most practical question of all: how do you and I plug into God’s forever plan right now in everyday life?

The paperback version is $10.99 and the e-book is $2.99.

Thursday Watchdog Alert: New Atheism Fizzles Out

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America’s vibe check is… weird. New research shows the old “New Atheism” wave has basically fizzled out, not because everyone suddenly found Jesus, but because the movement couldn’t keep its momentum in a culture that’s shifting faster than TikTok trends. Scholars note that the once‑loud atheist movement has hit a decline phase, shaped by internal drama and a changing cultural landscape Cambridge University Press & Assessment.

At the same time, Pew reports that tons of so‑called “nones” — the spiritually unaffiliated — still believe in something beyond the natural world, even if they don’t vibe with organized religion Pew Research Center. Translation: people aren’t rejecting meaning… they’re just allergic to institutions.

And cultural analysts say U.S. spirituality is mutating, remixing, and re‑emerging in unexpected ways — from social‑justice‑infused spirituality to aesthetic‑driven “vibes‑based” belief systems USC Dornsife.

The hunger for meaning hasn’t died. It’s just gone underground, DIY‑style.

So What?
Pick one thing you value deeply — justice, truth, loyalty, creativity — and ask: What would it look like to anchor this in something bigger than me?
Write it down. Start there.

Tuesday Watchdog: Stop Following Your Heart

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One of the most popular pieces of advice in modern culture is: “Follow your heart.”

Yeah, it looks awesome on a coffee mug, sounds inspiring, and makes a great movie quote. In fact, last night I watched a kids’ movie with my grandkids in which “Just follow your heart” was a major theme.

The problem—and what prompted me to write this post—is that it’s terrible life advice, because your heart changes its mind every five minutes.

One day your heart wants to study. The next day it wants to binge‑watch videos until 2 a.m. One day it wants a healthy relationship. The next day it wants to text your ex. Your heart is a terrible GPS.

The Bible doesn’t teach us to follow our hearts. It warns us about them.

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” — Jeremiah 17:9

Our emotions and feelings, while not always bad, are also not always reliable guides to truth. If you always follow your heart, you’ll end up wherever your latest desire takes you.

If you follow the objective truth that God sets forth in His Word, you’ll end up where you actually need to go, because God wants what’s best for each of us, and He’s been around a lot longer and knows a lot more than our fickle little hearts.

Adam and Eve followed their hearts right into a catastrophe. Rather than obeying God’s instruction not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they thought they knew better than God what was wrong and what was right. Big mistake.

God didn’t create you to be ruled by your impulses. He created you to know Him, walk in wisdom, and build a life on something stronger than feelings and more reliable than “Just follow your heart.”

Feelings make great passengers. They make terrible drivers.

So What?

The next time you’re making a decision, ask yourself: “Am I doing this because it’s true and right, or just because it’s what I feel right now?” Then choose truth over impulse.