40 blogs of Lent - Day 18 Why can't we have both of them? Messages to the churches - Day 14 Thyatira - Day 2 ‘I know your works, ... But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practise sexual immorality …
Tag: 7 churches in Asia
Judgement
40 blogs of Lent - Day 16 Judgement Messages to the churches - Day 13 Thyatira - Day 1 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze. Thyatira is located in western Asia …
New stone – New start
40 blogs of Lent - Day 15 New stone — New start Messages to the churches - Day 12 Pergamum - Day 4 A thought experiment in free verse. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, …
The compromising church
40 blogs of Lent - Day 14 The compromising church Messages to the churches - Day 11 Pergamum - Day 3 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat …
More on persecution
40 blogs of Lent - Day 13 More on persecution Messages to the churches - Day 10 Pergamum - Day 2 ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan …
Two edged Sword
40 blogs of Lent - Day 12 Two edged Sword Messages to the churches - Day 9 Pergamum - Day 1 And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. Pergamum is located on the plains and foothills along the Caicus River in Western Turkey. …
No second death
40 blogs of Lent - Day 10 No second death Messages to the churches - Day 8 Smyrna - Day 3 A poem He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death. No second death We believe in resurrection, …
The tree of life
40 blogs of Lent - Day 7 The tree of life A train of thought experiment in free verse Messages to the churches - Day 5 Ephesus - Day 4 To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’ The tree of life God …
Keep on keepin’ on
40 blogs of Lent - Day 4 Keep on keepin' on Messages to the churches - Day 3 Ephesus - Day 2 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to …
Seven churches
40 blogs of Lent - Day 2 Seven Asian Churches Messages to the churches - Day 1 The book of Revelation was written from Patmos to seven churches in Asia. From the map above you can see it would have landed at Ephesus and then gone on to, in order, Smyrna (now Ismir), Pergamum, Thyatira …
Making an ass of myself 