November 28, 2015
[Listen or watch the sermon on Isaiah 9 here.] Isaiah spoke into a world analogous to our own, one soaked in darkness. When night descended upon Judah, people saw only “distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish” (Isaiah 8:22). Uncertain of where to turn, people sought guidance in all the wrong places, including false gods, […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Advent, Christology, Hope, Isaiah 9:1-7, Kingdom, Matthew 4:12-17 |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
July 7, 2013
Revelation 4-16 gives us eyes to see the conflict between the kingdom of God and world powers with the eyes of God. We see the conflict between the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this earth from a heavenly perspective; we see it from the throne room of God. John, “in the Spirit,” is […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Assembly, Chaos, God, Kingdom, Revelation 4, Sovereignty, Throne, Worship |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
July 5, 2013
When the seventh angel sounded the seventh trumpet, “voices” (note the plural) announced: The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever. This, I believe, is the fundamental agenda of the Apocalypse, that is, to announce the coming of the kingdom […]
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Theology | Tagged: Apocalypse, Eschatology, Kingdom, Revelation, Revelation 4-16, Seven Bowls, Seven Seals |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 22, 2013
Peter Jay Martin, following in the footsteps of his father Joseph Lemuel Martin, authored a book that surveyed Revelation. Published by the McQuiddy Company (the Gospel Advocate publisher) in 1913, it was entitled The Mystery Finished, or The New Heavens and the New Earth. Peter’s book is not as well known as his father’s (The Voice of […]
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Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Bible-Revelation, Christology, Church, Gospel, Kingdom, Millennialism, New Heavens and New Earth, Politics, Postmillennialism, Revelation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
November 5, 2012
David Lipscomb’s opposition to participation in civil government is perhaps well-known. He is, in some ways, a Christian anarchist. This arises both from his experience in the Civil War but also out of his kingdom theology which envisions the kingdom of God destroying all human ruling authorities through Jesus Christ. Consequently, Lipscomb was a pacifist […]
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Society, Stone-Campbell | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Civil War, David Lipscomb, Government, Kingdom, Peace, Stone-Campbell, Voting, War |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks