Advent Meditation: Light of the World

You are the Light of the World, the Life that is the Light of all people. Your Light shines in darkness and the darkness cannot grasp You, nor overcome You (John 1:4-5)

Isaiah 2: Walk in the Light

Though this future is yet to be realized, believers can enjoy something of that glorious vision today. It is why Christians will speak of that time as โ€œnow . . . and not yet.โ€

Minor Prophets: Zechariah’s “Millennium”

The last post envisioned future warfare and Christโ€™s fearsome appearance, This week looks at a possible view of the Millennium, and restored creation.

2 Peter 1: Morning Star

What is fascinating about this particular code word is that it originally queued Satan, as depicted by the prophet Isaiah.

Gospel of John: Shine the Light

None are so blind as those who refuse to see Being willfully, stubbornly blind about something makes a person incurable. Not believing something will not make it go away, or be untrue, or have no power in your life.

Gospel of John: Where is Your Father?

If these adherents to every โ€œjot and tittleโ€ of Godโ€™s word had also truly known God, which is to say, not just known the scriptures and Law, but had truly known God, then they would have sensed Godโ€™s presence there before them.

Proclamation of Christ

among all these pilgrims, the Magi's opulent and exoticly laden camels, their turbans and jewels, their royal purple robes, their leopard skins and strange accents, would have parted the crowds and drawn gasps of awe.