Celtic Odyssey

  On Sunday, 07 August, I spoke at Morning Star Center for Spiritual Living . Here’s a link to the service . My talk starts at roughly the 26 minute mark and lasts about 20 minutes. Below is the transcript of my talk.                                     Thank you, Sara, for inviting me back to speak today. And thank you all for having me.  I’d like to start today by quoting from the singer / songwriter (and I would contend part-time prophet), Trevor Hall . Trevor ends his song, Different Hunger , with these words —  … Be humbler than a blade of grass Be patient and forgiving like a tree …  The time has come to speak of this love Speak of this love, speak of this love. [1] And that’s what I’m going to do today — “speak of this love.” And the Love I want to talk about is God’s Love. So what is God’s Love and how do we experience it? My wife and I have finished reading Mary Magdale...

This is the last post in our series titled, “A Response: A Biblical Guide to Revelation.” Part 1 was the Introduction. Part 2 was about the Seven Churches in Revelation. In Part 3 we looked at the “Rapture.” Part 4 was about the Mark of the Beast. Part 5 was about the Tribulation. Part 6 was all about the Millennium (it actually covers two chapters from the Guide). And in Part 7 looked at the “Great White Throne Judgment.” Let’s now turn to the final chapter in this Guide — the New Heaven and New Earth! Chapter 8: What Is the New Heaven and New Earth? We’ve come to the last chapter of the Guide and I have to say that I’m really surprised with this part. At least the Guide seems to be about the restoration of all creation when it asks, “[Why] should we believe that God would purpose to restore only [people], while relinquishing the physical realm …to destruction?” (pg. 24; adapted). Later, the Guide is insistent, “There will come a day when God will do for all of creation what [G...