I guess I could call today a “Thanksgiving Message,” and if I did, I would be doing that because next week is in fact the beginning of my Christmas series. I don’t think I have ever started a Christmas series before Thanksgiving, but I have a series that is 5 messages long and that meant I needed to start next week. So here we go, here’s me being thankful not for Covid-19, but in Covid-19, because that is God’s will.

I guess I could call today a “Thanksgiving Message,” and if I did, I would be doing that because next week is in fact the beginning of my Christmas series. I don’t think I have ever started a Christmas series before Thanksgiving, but I have a series that is 5 messages long and that meant I needed to start next week. So here we go, here’s me being thankful not for Covid-19, but in Covid-19, because that is God’s will.

The last message of Revelation: 24 messages, a number of them over 35, 40 minutes long; and not only would I not call this an in-depth study, I would say we barely skimmed the surface. There is so much here. God revealed the future to change our today. Turn with me to 22:7-21.

The last message of Revelation: 24 messages, a number of them over 35, 40 minutes long; and not only would I not call this an in-depth study, I would say we barely skimmed the surface. There is so much here. God revealed the future to change our today. Turn with me to 22:7-21.

For so many Heaven is a place of the mystical, hazy, can’t quite hold it. And that creates a problem. Heaven is to be a real hope, but it is difficult to hope in something we do not understand. We understand and desire the physical because that is the way God made us. God has communicated very physical, concrete ideas of what Heaven is and where it is going to be. What He has communicated is worthy of being a place we want to live forever, a place that gives us a hope.

For so many Heaven is a place of the mystical, hazy, can’t quite hold it. And that creates a problem. Heaven is to be a real hope, but it is difficult to hope in something we do not understand. We understand and desire the physical because that is the way God made us. God has communicated very physical, concrete ideas of what Heaven is and where it is going to be. What He has communicated is worthy of being a place we want to live forever, a place that gives us a hope.

Today is the 22nd of 24 messages in Revelation, even though we aren’t in Revelation today. This is a supplement to our series. The last several messages have been much about people being resurrected. We have seen the rapture, the marriage supper of the Lamb, and the Great White Throne. All these people coming to life in the future might make one wonder, Where are they right now? Where do people go now when they die?

Today is the 22nd of 24 messages in Revelation, even though we aren’t in Revelation today. This is a supplement to our series. The last several messages have been much about people being resurrected. We have seen the rapture, the marriage supper of the Lamb, and the Great White Throne. All these people coming to life in the future might make one wonder, Where are they right now? Where do people go now when they die?

Every day we walk outside we can celebrate a diversity of how God created everything. Celebrating diversity is celebrating our Creator. Now, to be clear, because diversity is used in a variety of ways today; we don’t celebrate a diversity of ways of rejecting God. We don’t celebrate a diversity of ways of rejecting what He has revealed in His word. But we certainly celebrate the diversity of His creation.

Every day we walk outside we can celebrate a diversity of how God created everything. Celebrating diversity is celebrating our Creator. Now, to be clear, because diversity is used in a variety of ways today; we don’t celebrate a diversity of ways of rejecting God. We don’t celebrate a diversity of ways of rejecting what He has revealed in His word. But we certainly celebrate the diversity of His creation.