Dear Church, Thyatira Bryan Dunagan, Sept
Dear Church, Thyatira Bryan Dunagan, Sept. 29, 2019 Well, it is so great to be with you, and I'm so thankful for our music leaders and for Ashley Irons. She is such a gift to me, I know, and my family. Thank you. She's one of my pastors in addition to her giftedness in leading music. She is just a woman of great wisdom and who loves Jesus. So, we have been in a series looking at these seven letters to seven churches in the Book of Revelation. I have loved this series. I hope that it has been helpful and encouraging to you, but part of it is just spending time in the last book of the Bible. I had a grad school professor who wrote this about Revelation: "If it ever became illegal in my part of the world, as it actually is in other places this very moment, to own a complete copy of the Bible, and if the authorities as an act of mercy allowed me to possess just one book of the Bible, I would without hesitation keep the last." "I would keep the Book of Revelation because," and he would often say this, "no other book in the Bible presents the gospel as powerfully as the last book does." No other book, in the face of all that threatens to undo us, announces this hope that we have in Jesus the way Revelation does. No other book helps us to see Jesus as clearly as he is right now as the Book of Revelation.
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