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Seeking God for True Revival: A Prayer Guide

Seeking God for True Revival: A Prayer Guide

I don’t have to tell you we live in desperate times. Just one glance at the headlines will do that. This country— this world— seems gripped by darkness, hostility, evil, and despair. And I confess, there are days when I wonder, “God, where are You in the middle …

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A Glimpse at Life Under God’s Daily Anger

A Glimpse at Life Under God’s Daily Anger

As the old Puritan prayer reads, “From Your wrath, good Lord, deliver us.” Today, such a sentiment seems foreign, even offensive, in our modern church culture. After all, haven’t we matured from the medieval superstition of the wrath of a vengeful God? Isn’t our …

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Hearing His Voice Above All the Distracting Noise

Hearing His Voice Above All the Distracting Noise

In these uncertain times, many feel uneasy about the state of the world. With Trump’s continual indictments, the escalating war in Ukraine, inflation, deception from our sacred institutions, the growing apostasy of the church, and the clear warnings from Scripture …

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Persecution, Growth, and the Underground Church

Persecution, Growth, and the Underground Church

The parallels between the underground church in China and the early church of the first three centuries are striking. Both suffered intense persecution, being declared enemies of the state. Both responded by holding fast to the foundational tenets of their faith …

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Persecution, Faithfulness, and the Love Feast

Persecution, Faithfulness, and the Love Feast

The last few posts talked about the “agape” or “love feast” and centered on it as a fulfillment of the mandate given by the Lord for His church in Acts 2:42. Just to jog your memory, let me share the four practices the early church devoted themselves to that allowed …

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What Did the Agape or Love Feast Look Like?

What Did the Agape or Love Feast Look Like?

As with most of life, all good things must come to an end. Some by natural design and others by more sinister means. We can say the same for the “love feast,” which was a foundational aspect of worship during the church’s first three centuries that met its demise …

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Practical Ways to Apply Revelation’s Praise

Practical Ways to Apply Revelation’s Praise

The Book of Revelation contains some of the most vivid and awe-inspiring pictures of God’s divine glory and the worship He rightly deserves. In Revelation chapter 5, the apostle John has an encounter with the risen and exalted Jesus Christ that highlights specific …

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Learning to Praise Christ from Revelation 5

Learning to Praise Christ from Revelation 5

In Revelation 5, we find a divine pattern for praise and worship laid out through John’s glimpse into the heavenly throne room. As the Lamb takes the scroll to unleash God’s plans for returning the kingdom to the King (Rev. 5:7), the inhabitants of heaven erupt in …

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Revelation 4:10-11:  Worship Him Who is Worthy

Revelation 4:10-11: Worship Him Who is Worthy

As we continue to look at the description of worship displayed in Revelation 4 and 5 in order to learn from heavenly worship what earthly worship should look like, we are going to focus on the second of the five episodes of worship found in these chapters. And this …

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“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.  So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.”

Revelation 3:15-17

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