The four churches from first century Asia Minor (present day Turkey) described in Revelation 2 are much like our churches – struggling against the temptation to accommodate herself to the pagan culture in which she sits by engaging in the immorality of that...
Much of Revelation is composed in the ancient genre, apocalyptic. Often mistaken as a dystopian description of the future collapse of the universe, apocalyptic is instead a literary tool ancient Jewish writers used to pull back the curtain on every day political,...
Jesus is the only-begotten son of God, and his birth as a human baby is all about God’s plan to insert himself into space and time, his plan to pour himself into his sinful but redeemed human creatures, and his plan to reveal himself to those unable to see him....
During his life Augustus Caesar was the most powerful man in the history of the world – a man who used his supreme power to subjugate his enemies and enforce a sterile peace throughout his dominion. Into this context of oppression and cruelty, a baby was born in...
The God who created the world also sustains the world. And because he is the sovereign Lord of nature, he can personally guarantee that no power in the natural world can overcome those who trust in him. He does this by promising that he will use his strength to give...
The message of the angel to Joseph that his pregnant wife's child had been given to her by the gifting of the Holy Spirit was as perplexing to him as it is to contemporary westerners. How can such a thing that never happens, happen? But if God is God, and if he...
