The scroll arrived at seven churches with a message that was both strange and familiar. A messenger — probably a trusted believer, someone who knew...
In the first century, the cities of Roman Asia were saturated with imperial presence. Temples to the emperor lined the public squares. Civic festivals, trade...
The Beginning and the End There is a way of reading the Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation together — in conversation with...
“Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it,...
You know the feeling. A workplace policy slides across your desk and you read it through once, then again, and you realize you cannot sign...
You know the feeling. You are sitting at a family dinner and someone brings up a topic that makes your stomach drop. You quietly nod...
Maybe it happens late at night. The house is quiet. You are reading a passage you have probably read a dozen times before — a...
The house is completely quiet — that kind of quiet where you can hear the refrigerator humming in the next room. You are on the...
Picture a revolutionary manifesto. The kind meant to tear down the most powerful empire on earth. Now picture that same manifesto written in the dominant...
You probably remember the Magic Eye posters. They were everywhere in the mid-nineties — malls, dentist offices, the back wall of every bookstore that wanted...
Picture a room. A large first-century gathering space — the kind used by a leadership council of a world-changing movement. Look around it. Almost every...
A fisherman named John was mending nets by the Sea of Galilee when a carpenter from Nazareth walked up and said two words: “Follow me.”...
