What It’s All About (Rev. 4)
by Do you ever feel like a hamster sprinting in a wheel, laboring feverishly but getting nowhere? Day after day it’s the same ol’ rat race. …
Author: Ben Hammond
Deceived by Fool’s Gold: A Message to Us via Laodicea (Rev. 3:7-13)
“It’s a golden head!” My second son, about nine years old at the time, beamed ecstatically. His archaeological digs in our yard had unearthed a …
It Will Be Worth it All: A Message to Us via Philadelphia (Rev. 3:7-13)
Helena and Hermia are friends. At least, they were friends—until Hermia’s lover Lysander succumbed to a special love juice applied to his eyes while he …
Reviving a Beautiful Corpse: A Message to Us Via Sardis (Rev. 3:1-6)
Carnage lay strewn along the roadway: bodies and personal effects littered the scene. Lives would be changed forever. It was April 26, 2006, when the …
A Reward for the Intolerant: A Message for Us via Thyatira (Rev. 2:18-29)
Toleration. It’s the primary gauge of societal perfection in our culture. We are supposed to tolerate everyone, regardless of what they do, what they think, …
Eliminating Compromise: A Message to Us via Pergamos (Rev. 2:12-17)
The silverware rattled as the drawer that housed it slid open with aggravated force. I instinctively suspended my breathing and waited. It was the sound …
You’re Not Alone: A Message to Us via Smyrna (Revelation 2:8-11)
KEVVVVIIIINNNNN!!! If you’ve ever watched the 1990 movie Home Alone, you remember the scene. 8-year-old Kevin, whose conniving attitude garnered bullying from his siblings, was …
Back to the Basics: A Message to Us via Ephesus (Revelation 2:1-7)
What is it about mothers? Their proverbial “eyes in the back of their heads” have been thwarting the creativity of their enterprising offspring for centuries. …
A Glimpse of a Different Jesus (Revelation 1)
Wow. The look on his face betrayed his unexpected delight. I was watching a video of a soldier, who upon returning from Afghanistan, found that …
Que sera, sera
Que sera, sera. Whatever will be will be. The future’s not ours to see. Que sera, sera. So crooned Doris day in the 1956 remake …