Two possibly competing Study Bibles have been published recently (i.e. within the last couple of months). One is the New Living Translation Study Bible from Tyndale. And the other is the English Standard Version Study Bible from Crossway. The English Standard Version (ESV) is marketed in two ways: 1) apparant from its name . . . → Read More: A Little Bit of Social Science – Network Chart of what people buy with a Study Bible
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Today’s reading is Rev 17:1-18. The symbols are the harlot and the beast. The beast is the first beast that came out of the sea – the political beast. He still has 7 heads and 10 horns representing his authority. The Harlot is the ever-changing 2nd beast – the religious beast. . . . → Read More: Friday – Church & State and False Church Sorry about this. Somehow it got stuck in draft unpublished mode. The reading is Revelations 16:12-21. The sixth bowl dries us the river Euphrates and brings all kinds of plagues similar to those in Egypt. And the two beasts use them to call together an army. The entire scene invokes the OT history . . . → Read More: Thursday – The 6th and Seventh Bowls – The Gospel as Sword Rev 16:1-11 is the reading assigned for the day. In that reading we see the third of seven cycles start – the bowls of the wrath of God. Two textual notes of interest. During the 1st cycle (trumpets) the plagues only effected 1/3rd of anything where with the bowls that limitation is removed. . . . → Read More: Wednesday – Contemplating the Personhood of God That word – election – has a theological meaning as well as the political. Today the citizens (and a few non-citizens singed up by ACORN and in Chicago a few dead people) of the US vote for political leaders of all stations – dog catcher to President. The intersection of the two meanings (political . . . → Read More: Tuesday – Election Day It is spookily appropriate that on the eve of an election we read about the beasts in Rev 13:1-18. As a minister is a little scary today the degree of correlation between political affiliation and religious worship. I wish I had the data that Dr. Robert Putnum used in a lecture at Concordia Seminary. . . . → Read More: Weekend/Monday – The Beasts from the Land and the Sea This was a very hard sermon to write and deliver. Bluntly, looking at the Beatitudes from a law perspective just comes so much easier to me. Speaking about things you have a intellectual understanding of but your gut consistently takes you somewhere else, makes either for a confusing sermon or just a bunch of . . . → Read More: Sermon – Matt 5:1-12 – The Reign of Heaven is Yours |
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