Joe | February 19, 2010
Last November, we studied the seven letters of Jesus in the book Revelation. We looked at the letters from three aspects:
Contemporary
Composite
Chronological
As a recap, the churches Jesus wrote to were:
Ephesus
Smyrna
Pergamum
Thyatira
Sardis
Philadelphia
Laodicea
These churches represented the following periods in church history:
“The Light of Asia,” the period just after Pentecost.
The Persecuted Church
The Pagan Church
The Church of Romanism
The Protestant Church
The Revived [...]
Category: Isaiah, Matthew, Revelation | No Comments »
Tags: parables, Parallels, Prophecy, truth
Joe | February 15, 2010
Seems like ever since President Obama got into office, there has been a murmuring that he is somehow the antichrist prophesied in the Bible. That is not what this post is about.
No, you may be surprised that the antichrist isn’t always just a single being that you read about in Daniel and Revelation. The antichrist–or [...]
Category: 1 John, Last Days, Matthew | 6 Comments »
Tags: antichrist, forgiveness, holy spirit, truth
Joe | February 3, 2010
What is true worship?
Ever ask yourself that? Have you ever wondered what it means to worship God?
Luckily for us, Jesus Himself tells us in the book of John. He is having a conversation with a woman at a well. Jesus and this woman have an interesting dialog that initially finds the woman being quite terse [...]
Category: Christian Living, John | No Comments »
Tags: spirit, truth, worship
Joe | January 20, 2010
The Bible makes many points crystal-clear. Two of them I’d like to address are in Acts 4.
Who is the Chief Corner Stone?
Peter was on trial after having been arrested for “teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead” (Acts 4:2). The chief priests asked him: “By what power, or in what [...]
Category: Acts, Christian Living, Isaiah, John, Personalities | No Comments »
Tags: corner stone, oprah winfrey, rock, salvation, truth
Joe | December 2, 2009
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 [...]
Category: Revelation | 2 Comments »
Tags: apostasy, j vernon mcgee, repentence, truth
