What did the Altar Say to the Demon Frogs?
Rather than trying to turn Revelation into a timeline or news report, what if we looked at it as God revealing wisdom to us through Jesus?
Rather than trying to turn Revelation into a timeline or news report, what if we looked at it as God revealing wisdom to us through Jesus?
Some parallels of Adam, Abraham, and Jesus on Easter.
When we hear about patience, it brings images of waiting, resting, and being passive. There is a patience in the Bible that is ACTIVE. This is what Jesus calls faithful in Revelation.
When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Is reverence in church something we need to bring back and program?
If you follow the pattern of Moses doing an act of salvation and then serving drinks, you get some extra insight into when he broke the pattern.
This sermon focuses on Ephesians 4, explaining that after Jesus descended to Earth and ascended to heaven, He gave gifts to the church to empower its work. The central idea is the priesthood of all believers, meaning every Christian has direct, confident access to God through Jesus’s sacrifice, as supported by passages in 1 Peter…

Getting told “you have to forgive them” about all kinds of Christian workers that have done me wrong is hard. Paul had the same problems.
Ephesians 5:1 calls for believers to be imitators of God by actively choosing love and purity. This imitation begins with putting away destructive sins like bitterness, wrath, and malice (Ephesians 4:31) and replacing them with kindness, tenderheartedness, and forgiveness, modeled directly after Christ’s forgiveness toward us (Ephesians 4:32).
My sermon on Ephesians 4, where Paul tells people that if you’re going to be a Christian, start acting like it!