Seven Letters to Seven Churches: Laodicea

Joe | December 2, 2009

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Seven Letters to Seven Churches

Today we conclude the series, Seven Letters to Seven Churches.
We have looked at the first six letters to the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, and Philadelphia.
We have looked at each of these letters and churches from a contemporary, composite and chronological application as well as the way each is structured.
And so we conclude [...]

Seven Letters to Seven Churches: Philadelphia

Joe | November 30, 2009

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Seven Letters to Seven Churches

So far, we’ve looked at the first five of seven letters Jesus writes to the churches of Asia Minor.
The letters we have looked at so far are:

Ephesus: “The Light of Asia”
Smyrna: “The Church of Suffering”
Pergamum: “The Pagan Church”
Thyatira: “The Church of Romanism”
Sardis: “The Protestant Church”

We now come to Philadelphia. It’s one of my favorite letters. [...]

Seven Letters to Seven Churches: Sardis

Joe | November 23, 2009

This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Seven Letters to Seven Churches

Last time, we closed out chapter 2 of Revelation looking at the Roman Church of Thyatira.
As we move into the third chapter of Revelation, we will look at the Protestant Church in Jesus’ letter to the church of Sardis. This is the fifth of the seven letters.
Sardis: The Protestant Church
Sardis was the capital of the [...]

Job: Tragedy, Repentance & Restoration – Part VIII

Joe | September 2, 2009

This entry is part 8 of 11 in the series Job: Tragedy, Repentance & Restoration

By the end of the tenth chapter of Job, we find Job going back to that dark place of wishing he had never been born.
Now it’s Zophar’s turn to have a word with job. Zophar is “the legalist” who presumes to know what God will do in a given circumstance. He acts as though he [...]

Job: Tragedy, Repentance & Restoration – Part II

Joe | August 19, 2009

This entry is part 2 of 11 in the series Job: Tragedy, Repentance & Restoration

Last time, we were introduced to the man called Job.
We learned that God had high praise for Job’s righteousness, but Satan countered with questioning Job’s motives. With God’s permission, Satan then sent calamity upon Job’s possessions and even killed all of his children. In spite of the horror of all that was happening around him, [...]

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Joe

I am a born-again Christian who believes the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original writings, infallible and God-breathed. I am a husband, father and stepfather who eagerly waits for the return of Jesus, the Meshiach Nagid.