In the letter to the church in Philadelphia in Revelation 3:7-13, we read the second of two letters that contains only praise and encouragement from Jesus for the church. Although the church in Philadelphia looked weak, it was actually strong, because it had done the one simple thing that all churches and all Christians must do: keep Christ’s word. Jesus’ instruction to them (and to us) was correspondingly simple: hold on to what you have.
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...
Human beings love using metaphors, comparisons between two things that are unlike to bring out some special way in which they are alike. In...
Continuing the final conversation with his disciples in John 14:15-31, Jesus told them how to show their love for him and of the gifts...