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let 'em know who said it first Sermon Series on Revelation; Revelation 13 : Today’s scripture is like something straight from a horror movie… Two beasts; one rises from the sea, the other rises from the land. Wreaking havoc in service of the dastardly Dragon. They force all they encounter to worship that Dragon by hook or by crook, they method matters not… It was before the passage of scripture we read that we meet the Dragon these Beasts serve. John tells us he is the ancient serpent who is called Devil and Satan.  After the birth of the Messiah, the Dragon tried to kills the Messiah, but he was snatched away to safety in Heaven, So the Dragon tried to storm Heaven. The Dragon, however, is no match for the arch-angel Michael and his battalion. He’s unceremoniously thrown from Heaven, and lands to earth in a heap. Like a pile of dirty laundry .  Bested, the Dragon unleashes his fury on the inhabitants of earth. His cronies in this chaos are the tw...

in a manner of speaking i'm dead A sermon on Stephen's Martyrdom In the Gospel today Stephen, a server in an early Christian soup-kitchen, meets he fate… And we have to admit, he does so faithfully … One of the earliest depictions of Jesus comes from an ancient boarding school. It seems that one of the page boys there, Alexamenos, was a Christian. And for his faith, he suffered not a little teasing.  In one of the walls, someone scratched a man on a cross, except his head is that of  a donkey. Next to that they've drawn someone in a posture of prayer. Next to their depiction they wrote, “Alexamenos worship his God,” making it clear just what they thought of Alexamenos and his faith.  In the next room, though, scrawled in the hand of a boy, perhaps Alexamenos’ himself, it says “Alexamenos is faithful.” … …You know, we spend so much time thinking what we would do if faced with some moment like the one Stephen faces today. And while we imagine wh...