In Revelation 2:1-7, we read the letter to the church in Ephesus, a cosmopolitan port city where intellectual and religious currents were always trying to divert the faith of the Christians. Jesus commended the Ephesian Christians for standing firm for the faith in such a difficult environment but called them back to something essential they had forgotten – love. Although truth and love are equally important, they are often difficult to keep together in practice. Like the Ephesians, we need to make sure we maintain faith in the truth and practice love for God, for each other, and for our neighbor.
After the Covenant of Works/Life resulted in failure and death for humans, God dealt with them on the basis of his grace, or free...
God used the sinful actions of humans to fulfill his will to provide the innocent one to take the place of the guilty.
The vision that John saw in Revelation 4-5 concludes the opening section and prepares for the rest of the book. After reading about the...