God opens the Book of Revelation by telling us that He wrote this book “to show His servants” (Rev. 1:1) things that we need to know about the future. Only followers of God and servants of Christ have the incredible insight for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Christ's words in Revelation 2:12-17, addressed to the locally assembled church in the geographic place called Pergamum: a place of Satan's seat. There we have heard Christ's words, which contain a warning about idolatry, Satan's plan of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The simple message Jesus Christ gives us is that His Highest Priority right now is gathering with His local church. Remember where John first saw Jesus in Revelation 1:12? He was walking around His local churches (that is what v. 20 says that...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As we open to Revelation 2:8-11 we are opening to the second of Christ's seven personal letters to individual churches of the late 1st Century. We looked at them as a group, but now we are taking a look at each individual church.As we read...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As we open to Rev. 2:1-7 we are reading the personal message in Christ's last words to His Church. These verses are part of a warning about what tripped up the earliest generations of believers. Jesus wanted them, and us, to stay on the right...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
There was a church in the New Testament world that was doing all the right things for the Lord; but there was one problem: they were doing all the right things for the wrong reasons. Jesus addresses that problem in His first letter to the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
This book comes last because it is not only the Conclusion of God's Word, it is also the Culmination of God's Plan. We see everything that started in Genesis: the Perfect Paradise of God, the Rebellion and Fall of the Universe into Sin, the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The last book of the Bible seems to be the most fascinating, and revealing of all the books of the Bible for believers. No where outside of the first three chapters of Revelation is there such a concentration of church-related truth; and are...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God is a Farmer, in His Word calls us His field (I Cor. 3:9), and our lives are searched by Him for fruit, that He can harvest from our lives.Much like the farmers all around us, and the many gardeners among us: if you want a good crop this...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Have you ever noticed that when ever Jesus described us as His children in the Gospels, somewhere nearby He spoke of fruitfulness? In the John 15 Vine and the Branches discourse He said that He is vitally interested in us bearing...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
