Sunday School Notes: Revelation 9:17-19
17 And in this way I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breasplates [literally “chests”–the Greek is thôrax and can be used in either sense], fire and hyacinth and...
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Sunday School Notes: Revelation 9:13-16
13 And the sixth angel trumpeted and I heard a single voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God 14 saying to the sixth angel, the one who has the trumpet,...
J. I. Packer and the End of an Era
The news broke this past week that legendary British-Canadian theologian, writer, teacher, and speaker, J. I. Packer is retiring from ministry at age 89. For the past ten years, Packer has been losing the sight...
Sunday Devotional: John 1:14a
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us John’s Gospel doesn’t give an account of Jesus’s birth like the accounts in Matthew and Luke. Indeed, the opening verses of John’s Gospel are...
Sunday School Notes: Revelation 9:7-12
7 And the likeness of the locusts [were] like horses having been prepared for battle, and upon their heads something like crowns of gold, and their faces like faces of men, 8 and they...
Sunday School Notes: Revelation 9:3-6
3 And from the smoke came locusts to the earth, and power [or authority] was given to them like scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was told to them such that...
Happy Reformation Day!
October 31, 1517–a date often overlooked on our calendars, but it’s probably one of the most important dates in Western history. Certainly one of the most important dates in church history. It was on...
Sunday School Notes: Revelation 9:1-2
1 And the fifth angel trumpeted, and I saw a star having fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him. 2 And he...
Sunday School Notes: Revelation 8:13
13 And I looked, and I heard the sound of one eagle flying high in the sky, saying with a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe! [to] those dwelling upon the earth from the rest...
Sunday School Notes: Revelation 8:12
12 And the fourth angel trumpeted, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon and a third of the stars, such that a third of them became dark....
