Expectations?
Revelation 6.1-8 Can I ask you something? What do you honestly expect to get out of reading these visions of heavenly seals and apocalyptic horsemen? Are you one of those…
What Else Can We Do?
Revelation 5.8-14 What else can we do? In the midst of Revelation chapters’ 4&5 dizzying heavenly diptych, we find ourselves caught up in an intergalactic Woodstock—a worship festival for the…
John Looks for a Lion, But Sees a Lamb Instead
Revelation 5.1-7 This may be the single-biggest mind-job in the Revelation. The One Who Conquers is called the Lion of Judah—an old title for a messianic warrior—but appears instead as…
Suck It, Emperor
Revelation 4.6-11 John’s Revelation was addressed to 7 churches in the Roman Empire. They lived under the authority of Domition, the ‘Lord and God’ of Rome. He ruled from his…
The Ordinary Unfamiliar
Revelation 4.1-6 John has a knack for making the ordinary unfamiliar. A throne…that shoots lightning. A sea…of crystal, or glass. Seven lampstands…that are spirits, and—earlier—churches. But this is a good…
"Being Christian"
Revelation 3.14-22 I think the chief enemy of Christian spirituality in America is that we are a “Christian” country. There. Finished. What more is there? We’re already “Christian,” so what’s…
There Are Different Kinds of True
Revelation 3.7-13 Jesus says he is the True One. That’s right—in Christian thought, Truth is a person, not a proposition. But that’s another riff for a different day. I’m more…
Pleasantly Numb
Revelation 3.1-6 No one at the church in Sardis ever made anybody mad. They were the perfect picture of inoffensive Christianity. By all accounts, they were well-organized, doctrinally sound, and…
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