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Two books I have read recently have helped me to discipline my mind so that it does not afflict me with negative and unwanted thinking. It is so easy to lay awake at night or to wake up in the morning and find your thoughts swimming in your head into uncharted waters....
REVELATION 12 & 13
We now come to what commentators universally agree is the central and pivotal chapter in the book. The shape of the chapter and of the one that follows is also distinctive. Together, Revelation 12 and 13 form the longest continuous narrative within the whole book....
REVELATION 10 & 11
REVELATION 10 Three of the most important theological questions to ask are: ‘What time is it?’, ‘Where are we?’ and ‘Who am I?’ In this interlude, through complex allusions to a wide range of Old Testament texts, this part of John’s vision report addresses these...
REVELATION 8 & 9
REVELATION 8 John’s readers live in a violent, chaotic and frightening world, one in which the sometimes terrifying events that they saw around them were often interpreted as portents of doom and disaster. John’s accounts of the first four trumpets effects a...
REVELATION 6 & 7
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...
A GREAT SPIRITUAL CLASSIC FOR SELF-EXAMINATION
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...
REVELATION 4 & 5
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...
READING THE BOOK OF REVELATION
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...
INTRODUCTION TO REVELATION
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 the...
MY FIRST MEMORY
U.S. 2nd Marine Division march through the streets of Wellington, New Zealand, June 1942 This day, eighty years ago, September 2, 1945, is my first memory as a child of four years old. It was V-J Day, when the representatives of the Empire of Japan signed a surrender...
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