DR. JEFFREY K. LONDON is Pastor and Head of Staff at John Knox Presbyterian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dr. London received a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia; a Master of Arts in Christian Education from The Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Richmond, Virginia; and a Doctorate in Preaching from McCormick [...]
DR. KEITH WAGNER is the Senior Pastor at St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Sidney, Ohio since January l99l. He has a D.Min. from United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio and an M.Div. from Methodist Theological School, Delaware, Ohio. Several of his sermons have been published in "Homiletics" and "Lectionary Homiletics." His sermons have [...]
THE REV. DR. JAMES D. KEGEL has served as pastor of Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Fargo, North Dakota; St. John's Lutheran Church, Baroda, Michigan; and Edison Park Lutheran Church, Chicago. He also worked at the churchwide offices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Chicago. He is a [...]
This is a story about women. All the heroes are women. The midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, not only disobeyed pharaoh; they then told him a crazy story that he bought hook-line-and-sinker. God honored Shiphrah and Puah by including their names in the Bible.
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. Outside are sorcerers, the sexually immoral, murderers, idolaters, and everyone who loves falsehood.
He showed me the holy city, Jerusalem. Its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold. The foundations were adorned with precious stones. He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son."
I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes. They cried, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!"
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."