God’s Message to Troubled Saints
Revelation 6:9–8:1 Seals 5, 6, 7: God’s Message to Troubled Saints In this series I’ve been explaining how Revelation speaks to Christian communities that are... Read More
Revelation 6:1–8: Four Horses and Riders, Subject to God’s Four Creatures
For many readers of Revelation, this is where things start getting exciting: we’re now ready to tackle Revelation’s tantalizing description of future events. Yet... Read More
Revelation 4-5: Jesus in the Throne Room of God
God rules. Period. No matter how difficult things get for us, our faith teaches us that God is in charge right now. While we are... Read More
AMERICAN EIJAH
Given some events of the past two weeks, I‘m taking a brief pause from “Revelation and the Post-Coronavirus Age,” to talk about a modern-day American... Read More
Revelation 2–3: The Message of the Seven Letters
One of our core Christian teachings is that the battle between good and evil is not much of a battle, since we already know the... Read More
“Christ’s Message to Christians in 2020: Revelation 1”
We are entering a new age. Just a few short months ago none of us could have foreseen the crisis that today affects almost everyone... Read More
Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 – Two Versions of Creation
I’m going to devote the next few posts to one of the most important, although under-rated, theological topics in the Bible: the role of God... Read More
Priesthood of Believers
I preached a version of this a couple of weeks ago at my wife’s Church, St. Andrews Episcopal. It was well received, and I was... Read More
Abraham Blesses His Neighbors, Part 2 (Genesis 18:16–33)
“If one day God does not punish NYC for its wickedness, he will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah” – John E. Herbst. My... Read More
Abraham Blesses His Neighbors, Part 1 (Genesis 14)
What does it look like for God’s people to “be a blessing?” The earliest biblical example is Genesis 14, a passage that introduces us to... Read More