Randall Johnson

The Need for Judgment: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 5:1-5)

Have you seen any paintings of the Last Judgment? I’m looking at a site where you can buy wall paintings for…your home? Most of the artists’ representations show naked people in distress (is

A Taste of Heaven: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 4:1-11)

Did Walt Disney think of Disney World and Disney Land as little tastes of heaven? Pastor Greg Laurie thinks so. As Laurie notes, the Bible tells us that God has put eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes

The Wealthy Church: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 3:14-22)

Many years ago I felt, with others in my congregation, that our church was acting in our own power and mistakenly feeling rich and healthy. But we could see the rot from inside. We began praying that Jesus

The True Megachurch: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 3:7-13)

This is the era of the megachurch, the large congregation. The largest megachurch in the world is Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea with about 480,000 members as of 2015. And there are many

Proof of Life: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 3:1-6)

I have a friend who took a job as pastor at a small country church. He was excited to be serving the Lord in this way until he realized that this congregation really didn’t want what he taught to

Relationship and Rectitude: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 2:18-29)

Would you be happy with your child if he didn’t love you or want relationship with you as long as he did the right things? If he did want relationship with you but tolerated all sorts of misbehavior,

Compromise: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 2:12-17)

A Church of England church in London held a joint birthday celebration for Jesus and Mohammed. The “Milad, Advent and Christmas Celebration” took place on Sunday at All Saints Church in Kingston upon

Faithful Unto Death: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 2:8-11)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a member of the confessing church in Nazi Germany, and a resister against Hitler and the Nazis. His writings about and resistance to Nazism landed him in jail and the concentration

The Confessing Church: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 2:1-7)

In 1933, the Catholic Church had viewed the Nazis as a barrier to the spread of communism from Russia. In this year, Hitler and the Catholic Church signed an agreement that he would not interfere with

Revive Us Again: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:17-20)

Oh, Lord Jesus, would you appear to us, your struggling church, your sometimes faithless followers, your holy yet still sin-ridden people? We are embarrassed at our failure to bring honor to you, blessed

Visions of Jesus: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:12-16)

Can you imagine being suddenly confronted with a vision of the risen Jesus? Does he still do that? Will he really appear to someone today? He certainly can and he has appeared to Paul and others have claimed

Judgment in the House of God: Daily thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:9–11)

Sometimes one of the reasons the world is put off by our talking about judgment from God is that we make ourselves out to be superior to them as those exempt from this judgment when in fact we participate

Embarrassed by Judgment: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:5b-8)

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/ By Randall Johnson

The judgment of God is perhaps for many of us the hardest aspect of the gospel to discuss. Maybe we aren’t even supposed to talk about it, or at least, that is the decision some have made. It puts

A Brief Introduction: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:4-5a)

Revelation is just that, a revealing of what must soon take place. God is telling His people something He has been wanting to explain since the very beginning. We know since Genesis 3:15 that God has been

Soon and Near: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:1-3)

I have a relative who, when he was young, became terrified at sermons about the end times and was traumatized by them. No doubt sermons on the end times have on many occasions been used to scare people

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