What's Your Temperature?

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What's Your Temperature?

September 8, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 3:14–22

Lukewarm is the problem Christ Jesus found with the church in Laodicea. You know the feeling when you pick up the wrong cup, and you get day old swill? That’s what the Lord was feeling about the church in Laodicea. Bland. Inoffensive and uninspiring.

Such independence of course generated not only the good pride of being responsible but the bad pride of needing no one, of not being challenged, of getting stuck in the complacency of having too much comfort.

More from Behind the Curtain: The Book of Revelation

No More Tears

December 15, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 21:1–8, Revelation 21:22–27

The God who flung galaxies across the field of space will touch, personally and directly, each eye that cries. He will take tears as his own. The God who hears the thunderous cataract of the multitude in praise, attunes to each sigh of his beloved. He attends to us like a father, like a spouse, like a friend. This is our God. We feel him do this from time to time in these dark days. Sometimes by the presence of his comforting Spirit. Sometimes through those he sends us. Revelation assures us that more is coming. None of these tears are lost. They will all be cared for.

A Christmas Wedding

December 8, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 19:6–9

Every worship service between now and Jesus' return is like an engagement party. All the guests come. Everyone anticipates the wedding that will be. So confident are we that the groom will keep his pledge, that we dance with abandon. We lift up our voices in joy. We let our hearts swell for the wedding day that will be here soon, oh, so very soon.

Warned to Flee from the Wrath

December 1, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 20:4–5, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 20:15, Revelation 20:1–2

No matter how much theology I read, I cannot scrub out the clear warning in passages like this one from Revelation. There is a judgment. There will be a lake of fire. No can survive it on his own merits. Jesus, however, has made a way. Will we answer his call and rely on him alone?