In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also (John 14:2-3).

In the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!" (2 Peter 3:3-4).

Every Sunday we say we believe it: "I believe ... he will come again to judge the living and the dead." But do our words mean anything to us? Do they have any effect on our attitudes and actions? Do we even think about what we are saying? Or has our recitation of the creed become s…