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Advent Reading: In suffering they worshiped
The challenge of American Christianity is abundance. We have to fake issues to “feel” oppressed and somehow that motivates us to follow Christ. Our challenge is our abundance. The first sign of something that doesn’t agree with our personal theology, and we give up on God.
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Prevailing Prayer and Adoration
No matter the condition on earth, the action in heaven is worship.
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Letter to a dead church
In writing to Sardis, there is an interesting note. Craig Keener points out in his commentary on Revelation that the two harshest rebukes in the seven letters of Revelation were to churches where even the cities don’t exist anymore.
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Worm theology
I am working through the new devotional called “Live Dead Joy” by missionary Dick Brogden. “Live Dead” is a missions effort to put missions teams in the hardest, most unreached parts of the world. It is a radical call to missions and as such, Dick Brogden is a very driven man. I admire him greatly. I enjoy the Live Dead…
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The church is a mess
“The churches of Revelation show us that churches are not Victorian parlors where everything is always picked up and ready for guests. They are messy family rooms. Entering a person’s house unexpectedly, we are sometimes met with a barrage of apologies. St. John does not apologize. Things are out of order, to be sure, but that is what happens to…
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The IMMENSE power of the Scripture
The Revelation, extending St. John’s experience (“I fell at his feet”) puts a stop to all bookish approaches to the scriptures that merely study them out of pious duty or for intellectual curiosity. The scriptures are not a textbook on God; they are access to the living word of God that speaks a new world into being in us. —…
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What happens when we pray?
What do we EXPECT to happen? One of my favorite prayer heroes was always in a spiritual fight. The Lord invited him to pray and stuff happened. The Lord would ask him to pray for places he had never heard of, so he would fast and pray until breakthrough came, often resulting in spiritual warfare that would sometimes feel like…
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When This World Fails
Revelation 18 is an interesting picture. Babylon… the world’s system… that which so many have put their hope in for so long… has fallen. It has been exposed for the corruption at its core. It has been exposed as inadequate, to say the least. The Kingdom of God is revealed as what is lasting and powerful. Yet, so many weep over the…
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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! 😉 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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