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Head's Up! He is coming ! How do we understand his message? Revelation 1:1-11 1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God and to the…

1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. 3 Blessed is the one who reads…

Revelation 7:14 . What is the Great Tribulation? 14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Let’s take a look at the four most controversial verses in the Bible.…

Taking the Bible's Own Context Seriously In this second episode of the series on Bible study, we will discuss what interpreting the Bible “in context” really means — taking the Bible’s own primitive context seriously. Rather than filter the Bible through creeds dating from the 17th and 18th centuries,…

The Heavenly Throne When we began our look at The book of Revelation we first saw a vision of the exalted Jesus caring for and protecting his churches. And what we see in the book is that after the period of the churches has come to end The Kingdom of God will come to this earth. This Revelation of what…

Summary Revelation 8 begins the vision of the first six trumpets. In Part 1 of our look at this chapter, we looked at features of the first six verses, such as the Lamb’s opening of the seventh and final seal on the scroll from Revelation, the accompanying silence in heaven 5, and the seven angels in…

Hiking in Calwood I had the great privilege last week of chaperoning Dylan’s class field trip up to Calwood. (Just past Jamestown). Beautiful country, great time. There were a couple ways, out on the trails, that kids could be SUPER annoying. Kids who want to lead the way. Blazing the trails up way ahead…

Date : 8/1/23 Dream Title: Lake - Ferry - Shack - Multiple Trips - Unknowns - Suitcase - HUGE Fish Dream Description : There is some event I am headed to that is on the other side of a lake. You must take a ferry to get there. The place you board the ferry is a sketchy looking shack. The guy running…

The Magi’s visiting Jesus presented 3 gifts: gold, frankincense, myrrh. Often they are respectively tied to Jesus’ roles as king, prophet/priest, sacrifice/savior. How accurate that is may be questioned. That they were costly and significant gifts is not questionable. Gold is gold. We all have a pretty…

Introduction 1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. 3 Blessed is…

Every year I like to put out a theme for the congregation to live by. If you read my weekly letter you will have gotten a teaser about that from there. I am going to use our scripture for today to flesh out the theme in both how we can see how what I’m proposing exists in this text and how we can apply…

In our final gathering we get to talk about oil. No I’m not talking about the very delicious and very expensive oils that you can buy to spruce up your meats or salads from an oil company , we are talking about the anointing of oil that we see in both James 5 and Psalm 23 . What is wonderful is that…

John 1:18 Here are the TESTS 1. The Test Of Consistency. Does it say the same thing? 2. The Test Of Commitment. Does it leave anything out? 3. The Test Of Change. Did the translators change anything because of a hidden agenda they may have had? 4. The Test Of Corruption Are these translations corrupted…

Looking at how the servant song points us towards Jesus, and understanding his part in the plan. Also looking at using the NT to give insight to the OT.

A communist agitator was once addressing a crowd in a city square. He pointed to a beggar staggering down the street arrayed in rags and tatters and more than a little drunk. “Communism will put a new suit on that man!” the Bolshevik cried. A Christian in the crowd called back: “Christ can put a new…

Building a relationship with the God of covenants is more than trying to find a genie in a bottle. It is the work of walking in faith through the road the Lord has us on. The relationship will be time tested, refined, and forged by the experiences we encounter in the Lord as He reveals Himself to us.

I want to start off today by pointing out that our story today is the second half of last weeks story. Last week we heard from what Jesus read from Isaiah, but this week we hear more of what Jesus has to say and the reaction from the people in the synagogue. The reaction that we get from the people in…

What kind of worship does the Lord desire from us? Can we give Him only a half-hearted attempt or will He ask for all of who we are? We take a deeper look into what our worship to the Lord should look like.

The origins of things is something that has always fascinated me, so when I took an online class about beer making I really enjoyed the history and origins of beer in general and then also the different styles of beer. I later discovered that the origin story of beer was basically the same as the origin…

Compromise in the relation to one another can lead to profitable and joyous occasions. When compromise enters the church because of failed leadership there is a price to pay. But to the victor a reward

John shows us what Christ is doing presently in His Church

1”The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. “ Two things about this star. First, it is a star that has ALREADY FALLEN. John is not watching it fall, but is noting it was already fallen. Second, the language places this star in the masculine gender…