You Can’t Have a Resurrection Without a Death—or Why We Need to Be Like the Jack Pine
It’s fascinating to me how the principles that take place in nature are many times principles that are true in our spiritual lives as well. Forest fires are a good example of this. One of the most intense types of forest fire is called a stand-replacing fire. Stand-replacing fires are forest fires of extreme intensity that have a seemingly catastrophic impact on the ground and vegetation. They will actually kill most of the trees in the stand. While stand-replacing fires seem