Marva Dawn recently died. Her writings on worship and pastoral care have been valued by many. But her writing on the book of Revelation, borne of study and personal experience of disability provides wonderful insight. Recalling how the rapacious abuses that early Christians had endured would have been in their minds, the message of Revelation …

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Most weeks of all the time I’ve spent as a pastor I’ve gathered together with pastors of other churches and other denominations and we’ve prayed together and enjoyed each other’s friendship. There have been those who have come and departed, some have stayed for longer times than others, but all who have committed into this …

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The greatest temptation about giving up is time. Particularly time spent without experiencing what you’ve been working for. This confronts us with the need to remember Christian service is about the ongoing experience of who we’re working for. So we continue on. From David McLemore at Things Of The Sort. But God is not letting …

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