1. This is a weekly article series working through the book of Revelation.
  2. This is a weekly article series working through the book of Revelation.
  3. It’s the First Century, the early days of the of the Post-Pentecost Church. Something is in the air.
  4. It may seem like a strange place to begin: the end of the beginning.
  5. In Adam and in us, life has been wrapped in death. But in Jesus, God has wrapped death in life.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. I’m still laughing now as hard as I laughed back then. And the salve that he gave me in that moment still works some strange magic on me to this day.
  11. When God sends them to hell, it is indeed punishment, but he’s only giving them what they asked for.
  12. You are changing as your eyes move over these sentences. You are aging. You are on your way to death. And nothing, absolutely nothing, can alter that fact.