Friday, April 28, 2006

Good Morning   

 

Survived my field trip with two bus loads of 5th and 6th graders to Chattanooga. 

 

Just got my schedule for this weekend, and I won't be a church on this Sunday.  Just as an fyi, I'll be out of town next Sunday as well (in Chicago), so I'll miss the next two weeks.  As scary as things are right now in our reading, that is probably just as well. 

 

Don't forget the diaper shower on Saturday for Christie.  For more info, go to our blog at leapclass.blogspot.com for a previous post on the subjet.

 

Today's Reading:   Revelation 10:1-4 , read Barclay pages 61-62

 

-- starting chapter 10 -- almost halfway through Revelation, and the pace is picking up.

 

-- as Barclay notes, we are now in an interlude between the sixth and seventh trumpets.

 

-- obviously, an angel of great power and great authority is featured in this passage, and undoubtedly he has something important to say.  It is interesting to not that John was not told to seal what the angel was going to say, but what the seven thunders said.  Why seal their words?  As Barclay says, we shouldn't really try to figure it out -- we don't have enough information, and we'll have to trust that God did not want us to know for our own good.  I will say that it supports in a way that John is seeing the full picture of the future, even the "top secret" things and words that God did not want us to know when he chose to reveal these things to John.

 

Today's Scripture 

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power.  Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil

Ephesians 6:10-11

Today's prayer requests:    Christie Peebles

 

Just need to remember Christie as she hangs on till her due date.

Today's class member prayer: 

 Wes Russell    

Jay