Gospel in a War Zone

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Gospel in a War Zone

November 3, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 13, Revelation 14:1–13

So pervasive will be the beast’s power, so seductive its promises, that the whole world will be deceived. Everyone except one group. Those whose names have been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. That is, those who come to faith in Jesus, a faith that carries on even when the whole world has gone astray.

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Joining the Song

November 10, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 15

Jesus comes down fully into the deathliness of our lives so that he can raise us fully into his everlasting life. That life can begin now. He asks that we let him join the song of our life to the mighty song of his life. He wants to take our out of tune, discordant, even grating song and tune it to his satisfying symphony.

War in Heaven

October 27, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 12:7–12

The revolution that became the Protestant Church was the discovery that Scripture teaches us to rely on Christ alone. We depend solely on the merits of Christ. I merit nothing. I am joined to Christ by faith, so that his merits become my own, and I am free from having to work for spiritual rewards. Jesus is good enough on my behalf. Now I can joyfully respond in thanks by living for Jesus’ whose merits alone save me.

The Witness of the Church

October 20, 2024 • Colton Underwood • Revelation 11

The Church appears as a guttering and flickering flame in the West. But, this is the hour to which you have been called. For such an hour, the Church needs strength, courage, boldness, an unwavering confidence and a steady gaze to conquer. We must not fear to look into the eyes of the beast, clearly proclaiming the truth, genuinely imitating the pattern placed before us. And, come what may, our hope is the very hope that we commemorate every Lord’s Day. The hope of the resurrection, that out of death comes life.