Jun 30, 2025

Scripture Reading: Revelation 1:1-8

From the first line in the book of Revelation, John exalts Christ.  Then, in the first chapter, he describes Christ in majestic terms. Christ is the "faithful witness" … the "firstborn from the dead" … the "ruler of the kings on earth" (Rev 1:5).  Christ loves us and has freed us...

Jun 23, 2025

Scripture Reading: Revelation 1:1-8

This marvelous book, with which the New Testament (and the Bible) ends, is what its name implies.  It is the revealing, uncovering, displaying of the person of Jesus Christ, in all His glory.  Though some of the details in Revelation, presented in the form of symbolism, are not...

Jun 16, 2025

Scripture Reading: 2 Samuel 23:1-7

What people say while they are dying is very significant.  They don’t talk about the weather or the stock market or the game on television.  They talk about eternal matters.

David, “the sweet psalmist of Israel,” wrote a song just before he died.  The book of Psalms contains...

Jun 9, 2025

Scripture Reading: 2 Samuel 24 - (1 Chronicles 21)

We know David for his great victories and songs . . . and for his great sins.  One rather obscure passage about one of David’s sins is 2 Samuel 24 (repeated in 1 Chr 21).  David wanted to number his army, but not for the usual reason, which was to fight a war.  It...

Jun 2, 2025

Scripture Reading: 2 Samuel 22 (Psalm 18)

Someone once said, “There are two main things we need to learn . . . how to live and how to die.”  Having conquered the fear of death, in Christ, sometimes it is life which defeats us . . . namely the multiplied sorrows, sicknesses, emotional turmoil, losses, anxieties we...