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The Number of Man and the Mark of the Beast
Sunday we are talking about Revelation. We’ll have all the answers to all the mysteries this Sunday morning! đ Just so you know we are really going to make this all easy, here is a link to my friend’s post this week on the Mark of the Beast. All will be revealed this week! Come one, come all!
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Silence in Heaven and the Prayers of the Saints
Revelation 8 gives a break in the first few verses. John’s visions have been utter chaos. The first six seals have unleashed visions of terror. War, famine, economic collapse, natural disasters… and he didn’t even have CNN at the time! Then, he is whisked into a vision of heaven and the incredible worship in Revelation 7. But then… silence. The…
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Why Does the Church Suffer?
We don’t suffer in America, or the Western world. Yet, the Church suffers. Revelation is vital to the suffering Church. This is a letter we need to read and understand. It’s not about escape from suffering. It is the understanding of why the Church goes through hard times. It is understanding the presence of Christ in that suffering. Why does the Church suffer? 13 When the dragon saw…
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Feed My Starving Children
Our church youth and adults participated in something incredible last night. Feed My Starving Children is an organization that packages food to send to the neediest places on earth. They get the food to organizations on the ground and let those organizations distribute meals to kids who get no other chance to eat something nutritious. In the Twin Cities, this…
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Rebellion
A scenario that occurs quite regularly throughout Revelation is a picture of rebellion. There are people so against God they don’t want to face him at all. When the world is literally falling all around them, they call out for the boulders to crush them rather than face God. Even when God is revealing himself full force and the open…
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The Door Standing Open in Heaven
Once the visions really start pounding away at John in Revelation, one key thing to look for is the consistent view into heaven. This is where all the craziness begins. Before the Lord shows John the visions, he shows him what is going on in heaven. It is WORSHIP. It is putting all the attention on the Lamb. It is…
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The Struggle of Revelation is We Want to KNOW
As we read through Revelation this week, another key passage to reflect on is Daniel 7. The whole book of Daniel would be good, but Daniel 7 really sets a base for how the early Church was hearing what Jesus was saying. Does it answer any specific questions? No. It is good to remember this, though: Daniel didn’t get any…
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The Beauty of Reading the Text Together
At the beginning of the summer we began “Eat This Book.” It was a project to read through the New Testament together. We put up a “tree” at the beginning and asked everyone to put a “leaf” on the tree for every book of the New Testament they read. It has been a great picture of what happens when we…
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Book Review: Should Christians Be Environmentalists?
I received a review copy of Should Christians Be Environmentalists by Dan Story from Kregel Books for their blog tour. I am under no obligation to write a positive review. The question in the book title is posed by someone who was a very active environmentalist before he became a Christian. The answer is fairly obvious. The difficulty is the political…
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The One Who Walks Among Us
This is “Revelation Week” at our church. We are finishing up our summer reading, “Eat This Book,” and we finish with THE END… or is it THE BEGINNING? It is the revelation of Jesus Christ, not a revelation of “the end of the world as we know it.” This is a letter of love from the Savior to his Church. The…
