New Testament (37)
  1. By faith in Christ, the curse is lifted now. In hope, we wait for the curse to be lifted forever.
  2. What you are doing for your hearers is sparking their imagination to live in, to dwell in, the images you are conjuring in their mind’s eye.
  3. The vision orients our faith to the future, but it directs us in such a way that it provides deep comfort and hope in the present.
  4. We gather and join in the great multitude because the Lamb is at its center, and the Lamb’s Kingdom ushers in the peaceable eternity of life resurrected.
  5. John the Revelator sees us in his vision just as much as he sees fantastical creatures and myriads of angels, all of us giving praise to the Lamb who alone is worthy.
  6. Christ’s righteousness, now our own, calls us into a similarly radical work of reconciliation in the world.
  7. The promise is rooted in the fact that the only way we can endure any ounce of suffering in this life is because Jesus Christ.
  8. We are standing within the body of Christ. This gives us the strength to stand, and it strengthens us in heart and mind, body and soul.
  9. This is a word of comfort, because it assures us that even when our words fail, our heart can rest secure, and even when our heart doubts, we can still speak the simplest three-word creed: Jesus is Lord.
  10. Even as this chapter is so well known that it may lead eyes to glaze over, perhaps it is appropriate to preach it on a day which is not a wedding.
  11. Each member finds their value, worth, and identity from the same inexhaustible source: The grace-drenched water of baptism which splashes every living body just the same.
  12. The most counter-cultural action any Christian church can take right now would be to foster healthy and constructive conversations among its members and neighbors across their variety of opinions and perspectives.
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