Question for the week #3
How do I -- not a pastor, teacher, or prophet -- hear and understand the voice of Jesus when he speaks to me?
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Revelation 1:1 Where Is Jesus Now, And What Is He Doing?
" [This is] the revelation of Jesus Christ [His unveiling of the divine mysteries]. God gave it to Him to disclose and make known to His bond servants certain things which must shortly and speedily come to pass [ a ] in their entirety. And He sent and communicated it through His angel (messenger) to His bond servant John, 2 Who has testified to and vouched for all that he saw [ [ b ] in his visions], the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ." --Revelation 1:1. The Amplified Bible While growing up (I'm a PK), I asked my father if he would ever preach a sermon on the following topic: where is Jesus right now, and what is He doing? He did later (years later) preach a sermon on a topic that begins to answer the question. He preached from the Book of Revelation and described the challenges for the church at Sardis, an ancient city near modern day Turkey. During this season of Lent, I've been reading and re-reading (silently and aloud) the Book of R...
One "Like a Son of Man": Reflecting on Christ the King Sunday
In my religious tradition , the church celebrates themed days on an annual basis. Almost everyone knows Christmas and Easter as two of those days, but Christ the King Sunday seems to be sadly fading into obscurity in some corners. The revelation of Christ the King is clearly seen in the first chapter of the Book of Revelation , in the New Testament. Revelation is one of those sections of Holy Scripture that frighten some away, while others focus on small and difficult to interpret details of what’s known as “end times.” A man known as John the Revelator (possibly the “beloved apostle” John, who wrote other parts of the New Testament) describes his experience in encountering the ascended, supreme Jesus who bears almost no resemblance to the God-Man person who spent approximately thirty-three years living among regular people in Palestine and teaching about the Kingdom of God. Here is what John says about his encounter with Christ the King: “I turned aroun...