Sine Qua Non
"Without Me...nothing," said the Lord. That pretty much covers it. The course calendar said it was Latin, but maybe the class should have been called Miscellaneous. Some days we learned more English, French, and history than Latin. Long ago I forgot...
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Christ in the Midst
“…Two or three…gathered…in My name, there am I in the midst” How wonderful to think of the risen Lord, the Christ, the Son of the living God condescending to dwell with men and women! After all, our reputation is nothing to...
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Are We Truly Remembering Him?
Do we celebrate each Lord’s Supper “in spirit and in truth”? “This do in remembrance of Me” (1 Cor. 11:24-25). Such is the Lord’s instruction to us as we meet each week to break bread. And so we might ask ourselves:...
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Thyatira
He’ll be seeing you. Two compelling features of the Lord Jesus Christ in His role as the center of any assembly are given to us in the letter to Thyatira. These two great and distinctive characteristics are the focus around which...
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Philadelphia
City of brotherly love The letter to the church in Philadelphia (Rev. 3:7-13) is a wonderful letter of encouragement. Philadelphia and Smyrna are the only two of the seven churches in Asia Minor to whom no condemnation is given. But while...
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Sardis
When you’re dead wrong, to whom can you go? What’s in a name? Sometimes nothing. The church at Sardis had a name, a reputation. In the midst of a corrupt, hostile, and dying world, the church at Sardis was known as...
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Ephesus
"I have this against thee..." “Theophany” is a Greek word that means an appearance of God. There are a number of theophanies in the Old Testament as God appeared to His people at various times in history. In particular, these appearances...
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