Thought for the week
Saturday, September 30th, 2006 Hold On!
I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and persverance, and that you are doing more than you did at first. Only hold on to [...]
Hold On!
I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and persverance, and that you are doing more than you did at first. Only hold on to [...]
10/01/06NCCN, Revelation 2: 18-29 The Seven Churches (Thyatira)
INTRODUCTION: Today we continue with Thyatira one of the seven churches of Revelation. Thyatira is a city known for its many trade guilds. It was a trading city dealing in cloth, there were wool-workers, linen-workers, and makers of outer garments, dyers, leather-workers, tanners, potters, bakers, slave [...]
Sharper Than a Double-edged Sword
These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword (Rev. 2: 12).
The double-edged sword is basically an offensive weapon. In Scripture it has several meanings, sometimes it stands for judgment and punishment (Isa.29:2; Ps 149) but the Word of God is always equated with it, the sword [...]
092406,NCCN Revelation 2: 12-17 ;Matt. 24:15-25
INTRODUCTION: The City Pergamum is unique in that it had a powerful pagan presence, perhaps more than all the other cities mentioned in Rev. Here Jesus calls it the place where Satan’s throne is and where Satan dwells. These designations are rooted in the history of Pergamum. There were [...]
The First and the Last
These are the words of him who is the first and the last, who died and came to life again. I know your affliction and your poverty-yet you are rich! (Rev. 2: 8,9)
The Alpha and the Omega, who always was, always is and is always coming, the Almighty. For Christ everything [...]