Weekend/Monday – The Beasts from the Land and the Sea

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. The . . . → Read More: Weekend/Monday – The Beasts from the Land and the Sea

Thrusday – Warfare and the limits of Warfare

We are in Revelation, a scary but appropriate book for the end of the church year. Today’s text is Rev 12:7-17. It continues series of seven signs inbetween the cycles of 7 seals, 7 trumpets and 7 bowl. It really it not another cycle like those last ones, becuase there is no metaphore introducing each . . . → Read More: Thrusday – Warfare and the limits of Warfare

Wednesday – The Dragon and the Woman

I don’t know why it took me 4 months to figure this one out. The adult Bible study on Thursday morning is going through Acts. We went through Acts devotionally on this site. Wouldn’t it be nice if I had a catagory labled “Acts” that I could just click it and all those posts would . . . → Read More: Wednesday – The Dragon and the Woman