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2 Peter 1 Glenda’s Long Swim in “The Incredible Series.” Glenda and Robert Lennon were four miles off the coast of Florida fishing alone from their yacht. Glenda decided to take a swim and soon found the current had carried her too far out from the boat. Her husband, hearing her cries, without thinking dove […]

Revelation’s visions are designed to disturb readers in order to bring them to renewed lives of faith and faithfulness. Revelation is part of a long story in the Bible in which people are repeatedly drawn away from Israel’s God, so that they worship the gods of the nations . The vision of the New Jerusalem […]

Luke 24:1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it came to […]

1 Corinthians 1:18 18 For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,  And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought. 20 Where is […]

John Swigert, Jr. and James Lovell who, with Fred Haise Jr., made up the crew of the US’s Apollo 13 moon flight, reported a problem back to their base in Houston on 14th April, 1970. ‘Houston, Swigert: ‘Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here.’ Houston: ‘This is Houston. Say again please.’ Lovell: ‘Houston, we’ve had […]

Because of the Fall. Christianity spoke again and said: “I have always maintained that men were naturally backsliders; that human virtue tended of its own nature to rust or to rot; I have always said that human beings as such go wrong, especially happy human beings, especially proud and prosperous human beings. This eternal revolution, […]

The heart of this chapter is the beatific vision: God, so spectacularly, transcendentally glorious that we will never exhaust his spectacular glory. Our words fail us. Our vision is too small. We cannot see clearly, but we see Christ and the Christ who died on the cross, the roaring lion and the slaughtered lamb is […]

At one level, much of the language already used up to this point has been steeped in symbolism, New Jerusalem, and so forth, but now, the interpreting angel in the vision goes to great lengths to make John reflect on particular elements of the symbolism, and the language is extremely symbol-laden. In verses 9–10, for […]

1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And […]

21 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And […]

How will we as mortals, constrained as we are by both limited knowledge, and sin in a universe still under the curse, find words to describe the glories yet to come? How would we describe electricity to someone who had lived in jungle all their life and had never heard of electricity? Some might say […]

Revelation 20:4-15 Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him […]

  Due to technical difficulties there is no audio for the weeks sermon.     Revelation 20:1“And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil, or Satan, and bound […]

11 And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12 And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems; and he hath a name written which no one […]

When Moses was handing over the charge of his people to his successor, Joshua, he said first to the people and then to Joshua, “Be strong and of a good courage.… He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee.” The writer of the epistle of Hebrews appears to fall back upon these words with a […]

1 Corinthians 11:17–31 All of us, I fear, have had the experience of attending some Christian service and walking out at the end with a feeling of extraordinary unreality. What on earth were we doing there? Sometimes it has to be said that this feeling of unreality, this experience of unconnectedness and insignificance, Sacrament vs […]

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First, God walked with man (Gen. 5:24; 6:9); then He desired to dwell with him (Exod. 25:8). His glory came to the tabernacle (Exod. 40:34), but when Israel sinned, the glory departed (1 Sam. 4:21–22). The glory dwelt in the temple (1 Kings 8:10–11), but then departed again because of the sins of the people […]

JOHN 1: 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would […]

John 1;1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. 4 In him was life; and the life was […]