Sardis – (5 of 7) From the very beginning of the church Jesus birthed through his disciples, there were wobbles, some discouraging, some devastating. Sixty years along in this tendency,…
Thyatira – (4 of 7) On this first Sunday of Advent, 2023, focusing on the theme of Hope, there is evident, a startling contrast between the sweet Babe in the…
Pergamum – (3 of 7) “. . . Jesus, the Anointed One, unveils the truth wrapped in tender mercy.” John 1:17, TPT “Your Word is truth!” John 17:17, TPT The…
Smyrna – (2 of 7) As the ‘firstborn from the dead,’ Jesus is literally the victorious, living proof of life after death. He is Lord of Lords and King of…
Ephesus (1 of 7) Jesus introduced the Kingdom of his Father to as many as he could reach. He demonstrated it through miracles and parables and his own lifestyle and…
The Salvation of every individual is the premeditated, Eternal plan lodged in, and launched from, the heart of the Father. Jesus embodied that plan and brought it to fruition by…
For Jesus’ disciples, the Pentecost event initiated in them, gave birth through them, Jesus’ Church. For us, Pentecost shapes, gives current expression to, the Church into which we were born.…
God’s Plan ‘A’ (there is no Plan ‘B’) includes His Church being the Dwelling Place of His Spirit, to enable her to be a clear expression of His heart in…
One startling new reality for the disciples-become-apostles was the abundance of the gift of grace which continually energized, motivated, filled, blessed, sweetened, their day in day out lives. The writers…
Twenty-five years after his blinding encounter with the very Jesus he was persecuting, Paul became a prisoner in Rome, under guard, but allowed to be in his own rented house,…