Revelation

July 31: Revelation 21:9-27

July 31: Revelation 21:9-27

We’ve come to the end of our Revelation series, and as always, we try to wrap up a sermon series with some brief look backwards. Over fourteen weeks we’ve read through the letters to the churches (Rev. 1-3), we’ve seen scene after scene of worship, and we’ve learned...

July 24: Revelation 21:1-8

July 24: Revelation 21:1-8

Vintage Downtown: Connect 4 is a challenge to engage in an intentional conversation with someone who is different from you, and its running through August 14. Get more details, including the guided discussion handout, here: vintagenc.com/connect-4.Straight up, this...

July 17: Revelation 7:9-17

July 17: Revelation 7:9-17

Thus far in our Revelation series we’ve seen several throne-room scenes, and this week we have one of the more famous ones. We’ll turn to Revelation 7 to see a multitude “from all tribes and peoples and languages” worshiping around the throne of God, and in doing so...

July 10: Revelation 18:1-3

July 10: Revelation 18:1-3

Like we saw last week in Revelation 11, one aspect of the world to come is a judgment on the world as it is now. If we’re really going to grasp the beauty and urgency of the Kingdom of God then we must also understand the corruption and wickedness of the “kingdom of...

July 3: Revelation 11:15-19

July 3: Revelation 11:15-19

We’ve launched our third and final mini-series in Revelation, and as we move into this final phase we’re going to explore the climax of all redemptive history, the coming of the kingdom of God. For John’s original audience, the juxtaposition of the kingdom of God and...

June 26: Revelation 19:11-16

June 26: Revelation 19:11-16

We’re closing out our Worship mini-series with an intense passage: the rider on the white horse. For the past two weeks we’ve looked at passages that describe Jesus as a Lamb who still bore the marks of being slain (Rev. 5:6). It’s hard to imagine a sharper contrast...

June 19: Revelation 19:6-10

June 19: Revelation 19:6-10

We’re back in the throne room, this time on the other side of much of the book of Revelation. Last week we saw Jesus standing before the throne, worthy to open the scroll, which unleashed judgment on the world. Here, fourteen chapters later, we’re yet again on the...

June 12: Revelation 5:1-10

June 12: Revelation 5:1-10

We’re two weeks into our Revelation mini-series on worship, and picking up where we left off last week we’re met with a dramatic moment in John’s vision in Revelation 5. God, sitting on his throne, hands forth a scroll, and Jesus alone is worthy to open it and fulfill...

June 5: Revelation 4:1-11

June 5: Revelation 4:1-11

We’ve embarked on our second Revelation mini-series, Worship the King. For this week and the next three we’ll look at specific passages in Revelation that develop and explain the theme of worship in the book. When you think about Revelation you maybe think about end...

May 29: Revelation 3:14-22

May 29: Revelation 3:14-22

Last stop: Laodicea. This week concludes our series in the letters to the seven churches, and forewarning, Laodicea is a bit of a downer. All six of the previous churches received some sort of praise from Jesus for their faithfulness in trial and commitment to his...

May 22: Revelation 3:1-6

May 22: Revelation 3:1-6

Skipping Thyatira, we’ll head on to Sardis, the fifth of the seven churches in Revelation. This one is briefer and more to the point than the previous two we’ve looked at, and to be quite frank, Jesus doesn’t have a ton of good things to say. But we never want to turn...

May 15: Revelation 2:12-17

May 15: Revelation 2:12-17

This week we’re turning to Jesus’ letter to Pergamum, the third of the seven churches (reminder: we aren’t doing all seven in the series). Like we saw last week, there’s a certain format to the letters, and all have some or all of these components: a description of...

May 8: Revelation 2:1-7

May 8: Revelation 2:1-7

Last week we introduced our new Revelation series with the first of John’s visions, Jesus among the seven lampstands. Those lampstands represent his worldwide Church, since the number seven was used by ancient writers to communicate completeness, but in chapters 2-3...

Revelation Resources

Revelation Resources

Contents: Intro Outline 5 Interpretive Views Revelation's Repetition The Number Seven + Seven Spirits Intro Below you’ll find some helpful tools and frameworks for reading the book of Revelation together in community. To start out, though, I’d like to set before you...

May 1 – Revelation 1:1-20

May 1 – Revelation 1:1-20

Ready? This Sunday we started our summer series in the Book of Revelation, and over the next fourteen weeks we’ll be diving into one of the most debated and mocked books of the Bible. But let’s all keep in mind that Revelation is no mere battleground, nor a...