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.
Except for John the Baptist, everyone in John 1:35-51 began the day not believing in Jesus. By the end of two days, all were...
The construction of the tabernacle foreshadowed greater dwellings of God, which he keeps building by plundering the nations.
The rejection of Jesus by many Israelites is God‘s plan for the salvation of the nations, and even of Israel itself.