Chris Appleby

Those who are outside the people of God are in rebellion against Him and are therefore spiritually dead. But God makes them a free offer to bring them back to life. All that’s needed to receive all of the bounty that God offers is to believe his promise,

God is not a God to be trifled with. God is not a God to take for granted. Even if our observation of the world leaves us perplexed and confused, God has revealed himself to us in his word. He's revealed his plan for the world to us. He's told us what he's like. He's told us what he desires of us. He's given us rules that help us to live in this world. He's shown us how to make sense of this world. And most of all he's sent his Son to live as one of us, to take our sins upon himself and to make it possible for us to be brought back to himself.

We live in a world that is often difficult to understand, where sometimes we just have to trust that God is in control, even if it seems that things are upside down, even if we find we can't straighten out the things that are crooked in this world. But we do that always conscious of the fact that God is overseeing all that happens around us and all that we do and say. We continue to fear God because that is the beginning of wisdom.

Letters to the 7 Churches - Sardis &; Philadelphia- Dead and Alive

Letters to the 7 Churches 2 - Ephesus and Smyrna