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Category Archives: New Testament
Visions of Hope: Ken Kierstead
In light of the fact that we are in an election season, Ken placed his observations of Isaiah 65 in the context of Kingdom Policy Statements to stimulate our thinking of heavenly implications today. Kingdom Policy Values Future Implications
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Visions of Hope: Jeff Van Duzer
Jeff Van Duzer, Dean of SPU’s School of Business and Economics, recently reflected biblical visions of the end as part of his exploration, Why Business Matters to God. In chapter 3, In the End, he makes a number of observations … Continue reading
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Visions of Hope: Darrell Johnson
Darrell Johnson captured nearly a year’s full of sermons preached just before y2k in his book Discipleship on the Edge. In his last two chapters he notes that we can begin to understand the shape of our extravagant hope in … Continue reading
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Visions of Hope: Eugene Peterson
St. John gives us a vision of heaven, for if we have not vision of heaven, we will almost certainly be leveled to a monochrome existence – colorless do-gooders who see everything in terms of black and white, whose lives … Continue reading
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Visions of Hope: 2 elements
If we are called to be anything as followers of Jesus we are called to those who live with extravagant hope. I’m not talking about pie in the sky-rainbows and stars Strawberry Shortcake-escapist run for the hills kind of hope. … Continue reading
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What’s your vision?
Last night as we looked at Revelation 21 and 22, I asked the question, “what’s your vision of the future?” Dallas Willard suggests that having a vision of the future is a as basic to being human as breathing. Revelation … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalypse, calling, hope, Revelation
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Guidance for important questions
As we come to the end of our series on Revelation, I’m increasingly drawn toward the phrase – it’s your book. Though I started the series with an appreciation for what Revelation has to say to us today, I’ve only … Continue reading
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Elements of Witness: Extravagantly Hopeful
What gets so often lost in the book of Revelation is the extravagant hope. It’s images can be strange and frightening but lets be honest so can life. The moments in which everything makes sense can be just that moments … Continue reading
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Elements of Witness: Seriously Credible
Chapter 11 of Revelation pulls back the curtain on the work of God’s people, the Church, by telling a parable that offers a call to each and everyone of us – presentation of evidence to the goodness and availability of … Continue reading
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Elements of Witness: Actually Possible
Last week we looked at Revelation 11 and the parable of the the church’s work of witness. Working through the parable, Ron highlighted four elements that were illustrated by the two witnesses: our witness represents God, is always effective, will … Continue reading
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