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Persevere Revelation’s central charge is for Christians to persevere through tribulation with the hope that their endurance will lead to blessedness when Christ returns. John identified himself as a “brother and partner” with all believers “in the tribulation and the...

Your church’s hymnal is full of allusions to Revelation. “Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne” (cf. 5:6; 21:1, 3).  “The King of love my shepherd is, whose goodness faileth never // Where streams of living water flow, my ransomed soul he leadeth” (cf....

For years, I’ve heard people say that the minds of men––particularly the “frontal lobe” of the brain––does not develop as fast as those of women and is not fully developed until a man is 25. The implications of this suggest that a man can’t fully use his noggin until...

1 Corinthians 11:1 says, “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” Paul understood what it meant to live a life worth of emulating. He loved the Lord Jesus with everything in him and wanted others to do so as well. One of the primary roles of a pastor is to be a godly...

Serving as a pastor can often feel like trying to steer a ship across the ocean while the ship is constantly taking on water. Every responsibility brought before you can feel like a bucket of water you must pour out of the ship before you can focus on the main...

That You May Believe H.B. Charles states, “It is the will of God that the Spirit of God use the Word of God to make the people of God look like the Son of God.”¹ Charles’s words became something of a preaching philosophy as I set out to preach the Gospel of John to...

Is it possible to know the Word and not know God? Is it possible to be a messenger of God and yet not know God intimately?  This is a weighty question to consider, but the answer to these questions is, “yes.”   During the prophet Jeremiah’s day, there were priests...

You know the feeling. A week full of hospital visits, funerals, counseling sessions, building maintenance, phone calls— besides anything that may be happening at home! In a weary week, one thing remains: Sunday is coming. Amid all the needs of the people in the...

In 1686, a 19-year-old Englishman named Elias Keach arrived in Pennsylvania. He had left his family in London, especially his father—the well-known pastor Benjamin Keach—to forge his own path, free from the religious life he had grown up around. Ironically, Elias...

Perhaps you are like many of us. When you felt the call to ministry, you had entertained thoughts of being the next “spiritual giant” who is remembered long after their ministry ended. Even the most humble and unassuming among us have had to fight off that desire. We...