by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 29, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Worship
REVELATION 6 These vivid images of chaos and destruction have gripped the imaginations of readers down all the generations, and have continued to shape contemporary culture. This is in part due to the nature of the language John uses, with its direct and powerful...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 28, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading
I want to recommend THIRTY STEPS TO HEAVEN, The Ladder of Divine Ascent for All Walks of Life, by Vassilios Papavassiliou. He takes the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent by John Climacus and adapts it for the modern world and the contemporary...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 22, 2025 | Bible, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
REVELATION 4 John here offers a dazzling vision of God which pushes the boundaries of human imagination in its metaphorical description. John’s own language reflects this; in contrast with what has gone before, he now repeatedly reaches for ‘as’ and ‘ was like’ and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 8, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
John (and thereby his readers with him) is taken up into heaven in order to see the world from the heavenly perspective. He is given a glimpse behind the scenes of history so that he can see what is really going on in the events of his time and place. He is also...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 6, 2025 | Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
I am beginning a twelve week class study on Revelation this coming Tuesday. I found the following summary of an introduction from Ian Paul’s commentary most helpful. Reading Revelation’s imagery The book of Revelation uses a series of metaphors. Metaphor is at...
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