Revelation 9:13-21 – The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very…
Continue ReadingPsalm 115:1 – Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness. This is a response to God that rings in the heart of all who know and love the Lord (Psalm 29:1-2). All who know and love the Lord know that it is the hand of…
Continue ReadingRevelation 6:7-8 – When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and…
Continue ReadingRevelation 6:5-6 – When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s…
Continue ReadingRevelation 3:7-13 – “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of Him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open. 8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut.…
Continue Reading2 John 7-11 – I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not…
Continue Reading1 John 4:7-8 – Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. The following story, one of my favorites from early church history, is credited to Jerome (AD 345-420)…
Continue ReadingGalatians 5:6 – For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. V6a – It is not whether we live up to the law, or whether we have not lived up to the law that has value. We know that by our deeds none of…
Continue Reading1 John 3:16-19 – 16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in…
Continue Reading1 John 2:24-25 – 24 As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is what he promised us—eternal life. As previously reviewed, we all have a free will. We have it before we come to…
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