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letter to the church in Laodicea

The letter to the lukewarm church in Laodicea – Revelation

Revelation, Seven Letters to Seven Churches

We move on to the seventh and final letter in Revelation.  The end of the road, as far as the delivery of the Revelation given to John along the path of these seven churches.  This time the letter is to the lukewarm church in Laodicea.  Jesus has no good things to say to this church.  Therefore, the examination will obviously be about what’s going wrong here.  What did they do, or not do?  How might they have achieved no good news from Jesus?  And what can we learn for us today, both for our churches and for us as individuals?

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How New Testament prayers differ from the Old Testament

Psalm 17 – How New Testament prayers differ from the Old Testament

journal, Verse of the day

Do New Testament prayers differ from the Old Testament? But wait – the title says “how” – not “do”! So there must be differences. Aren’t we still praying to God? Well, yes. But there are differences between the Old and the New Covenants. Therefore, it’s not unreasonable to see differences in the way we pray today.

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Revelation – The letter to the persecuted church in Smyrna

The letter to the persecuted church in Smyrna in Revelation

Revelation, Seven Letters to Seven Churches

We move on to the second of the seven letters in Revelation.  This time the letter to the persecuted church in Smyrna.  Jesus has good things to say about the church in Smyrna.  It’s a bit harder to determine whether there’s any bad news in here – at least the kind of bad news that the church in Ephesus received.  There were certainly warnings.  But whether things would actually turn out “badly” was dependent on how well the people in that church listened to and carried out what Jesus said.

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Do not be afraid, focus on treasures in Heaven

Do not be afraid, focus on treasures in Heaven

Don't waste your cancer

Do not be afraid. Do not even be afraid of cancer. Instead, focus on treasures in Heaven. I went to my oncologist yesterday. It’s time to begin radiation treatment. Now, today, I’m going to write from the point of view of the man in the image below. Climbing stairs into the clouds. Judgment time. Will he be told he will enter Heaven? Or will he be sent to the other place?

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