1. We’re living in the end times. We have been since Pentecost. The earliest Christians believed it, and what’s more, that is what the apostles teach us in Scripture.
  2. Last week we talked about what happens when the Triune God shows up, and how we practice this every week in Sunday worship with the Trinitarian invocation, “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
  3. Amazing things. That’s what happens when the Triune God shows up in Jesus Christ.
  4. This is a weekly article series working through the book of Revelation.
  5. This is a weekly article series working through the book of Revelation.
  6. It’s the First Century, the early days of the of the Post-Pentecost Church. Something is in the air.
  7. It may seem like a strange place to begin: the end of the beginning.
  8. In Adam and in us, life has been wrapped in death. But in Jesus, God has wrapped death in life.
  9. When I was a kid, punchdrunk in church by all the legalistic blows to my head, I stumbled into a warped state of mind about what’s going to happen when Jesus crashes the world’s party at the end of time.
  10. Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands, I shall see the prostitute from the Kit-Kat Ranch in Carson City, Nevada, who tearfully told me that she could find no other employment to support her two-year-old son.
  11. As a pastor I am often asked if pets go to heaven? The question may sound childish, or even sentimental, but it is extremely important for those who ask it.
  12. Yes, when we die, we believe that we go to be with Jesus in a paradise called heaven. But that’s only a vacation destination, as it were.