The final chapter in the story of the Bible (in other words – the story of human history) is God coming to live with his people on the new earth. God's goal was never to take a disembodied people up to live with him in heaven, but to come and live with us on...
Jesus conversation with the Samaritan woman should never have happened – it just wasn't appropriate. But Jesus ignored the appropriate to rescue the lost person hidden behind the cultural barriers that imprisoned her and kept her from redemption. He does the...
The heart of Buddhism is the Four Noble Truths: the reality of suffering, the reality of desire, the goal of nirvana, and the solution of the eight-fold path. In the case of suffering and desire, Buddhism and Christianity agree that all of life is broken, and at the...
The 1,000 years of Jesus' rule and reign appear only here in Scripture, so it would be a mistake to put too much weight on any one supposedly definitive interpretation. But what is clear in Revelation 20 is that Satan is finally defeated, Jesus' victory begun...
In John 3 a religious leader named Nicodemus meets Jesus to ask him who he really is, and Jesus teaches him about the necessity of complete human transformation by the Holy Spirit and how God brings this about through the crucifixion of his own Son. Readings and...
Babylon, the city who in partnership with the Beast, ruled the world through economic exploitation, illicit sex, and raw power, but when it fights against and kills the Lamb, it falls and is mourned by all those who relied on her. Readings and sermon were delivered by...
In the garden of Eden, the Enemy tempts Adam and Eve with the lie that he can give them godlike power. In the wilderness, Satan tells the same lie to Jesus. But Jesus resisted the temptation, reversing the curse of Adam and Eve's fall, and providing a way for us...
One of our most basic assumptions in the West is that each person should be allowed to judge for themselves what’s right and wrong. This, along with the companion belief that God – if he does exist – does not interact with our world means that anything...
In June, Glen-Ed Pantry suggests donating “summer foods” families need for cookouts, picnics and quick “Little League” meals. Foods like ketchup. mustard, s’more makings and lemonade or cool aide (with sugar) plus items from the Glen-Ed Pantry website’s “Most Needed...
The final seven plagues, poured out from the seven bowls, cause the downfall of the kingdom of the beast, culminating in a final climactic battle – the battle of Armageddon. As a result, God's people praise him for his holiness, his universal reign, and his...
