Our real crisis is always going to be about faith, about being more impressed with human plans, human ingenuity, and human control rather than God’s wisdom, God’s character, God’s promises, and God’s will.
Revelation 8: The Power of Prayer
The tremendous power in the prayers of the holy ones was also revealed to John. You and I think of that power as reaching up to God and the Lord responding in divine might. But this time, John watched as these sacred prayers were thrown forcefully back to earth in a startling reversal of how prayer has ever been viewed.
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Revelation 8: The Altar of Incense
There is something of a dream quality to John’s narration, as though he were himself enrapt in the incense.
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Isaiah 30: Commitment of Faith
In order to understand what faith is, you and I have to actually use it. A person does not really have faith until that person lives it out, boots on the ground, real life, real dilemmas, real crises.
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Isaiah 29: Saving Faith
This was the strange way God was going to inspire their faith, and often, it is the strange way God brings you and me back to center as well.
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Revelation: The Second Set of Sevens
The four basic scholarly frames of reference will layer well with historical insight and scriptural overlay while leaving room for the possibility that John’s prophetic oracles have yet to be (completely) fulfilled.
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Revelation 8: The Seventh Seal
It is one of the more mysterious and intriguing verses in John’s account.
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“Killing Christians”
This book had me at the title and never let go until I had read the last page
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Isaiah 28: Six Slinky Chapters
The following six chapters, Isaiah 28-33, are like a Slinky, or an eagle in the updraft. In a series of sermons, Isaiah gives a woe, then a promise and call to faith, then he wheels back to the woe, and again to a promise and call to faith.
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Isaiah 27: And The Trumpet Shall Sound!
On That Day, all evil will be scoured from the universe by the cleansing action of God’s wrath, Isaiah 27:1. On That Day, the whole world will be filled with the good fruit of God’s people, Isaiah 27:2.
