Revelation

Just when we thought we have seen what a physical virus can do, in the last 7 days we’ve seen a far worse virus.  It is the spiritual virus of sin, and it has flowered unto full bloom.  Not only in the streets of our cities, but within our mainstream media and [...]

In the thick of these desperate times, we badly need the brand of encouragement and security offered to us here in Revelation Chapter 3, where this week we study the letter to the Church at Philadelphia.  In the 6th stop on our tour of the 7 churches, we come not to a [...]

In the 5th stop on our 7-church tour, we come now to the Church at Sardis, who are called in a seeming contradiction - “the dead church.” A busy and wealthy and active church, it is predominantly populated by unregenerate people. The scariest part about being spiritually dead?  Not knowing it according [...]

What we discover in the Church at Thyatira, is that it is possible for a church to look winsome and wonderful and well on the outside, and yet be utterly rotten at the core.  Though they were busy and active and growing, the Church at Thyatira had tolerated and advocated false teaching, [...]

In our study of the 7 churches in the book of Revelation, we come now to the Church in Pergamum, and to the church that most closely resembles the American Church in our day.  Now Pergamum is called “the compromised church” because they had allowed false teaching to creep into and lodge [...]

What if we were to study the Word of God with the same fervor with which we’re consuming the news today? We might all have double Doctorate degrees in theology from the school of Gamaliel. What if rather than jumping on board with all the insurrection and rebellion of the day, we [...]

As Christians in these difficult days, we’re not to be consumed with the data and the graphs and the stratagem of men, but rather we’re to focus upon the loving pruning purifying work of God in our own hearts. We agree with the Apostle Peter in 1st Peter 4:17, where he says, [...]