What do you do?

After Revelation 2:18-29 

What do you do about

heresy? You believe,

and do what you

believe, and do what

you should, even as

heresy is practices

in the place you

believe, in the place

you live. You hold true,

even as the false and

untrue are tolerated 

and flourish all around

you.

 

Keep on keeping on.

Hold fast. Hold fast

to the true; keep

to the true always

and to the end. It

won’t be easy; it

never is. But it is

your path; hold 

fast and keep

walking your

straight line.

The authority will

come to rest on you.

The reward will

come to you.

 

Photograph by Patrick Fore via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

Redeeming the Time This New School Year – Kristen Hatton at CDM Women’s Ministry.

 

Ways to See and Support Foster Families – Melissa Edgington at Your Mom Has a Blog.

 

The Scandal of the Evangelical Heart – Doug Eaton at Fight of Faith.

 

‘And lead us not into distraction’ – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.

 

Britain’s incredible Christian revival: Why young people are returning to church in their droves and putting faith in Christ– Ed Griffiths at GBN News.

 

 

So much right, yet...

After Revelation 2:18-29 

So much can be right,

and is, your works,

your love, and faith

that produce those

works, your patient

endurance, and your

ever-growing acts

and works of faith.

 

And yet.

 

You have a heresy

in your midst, not

hidden but openly

practiced, celebrating

self-indulgence and

all the sins of self.

You allow its leader

to practice her ways

and call herself

a prophetess, dishonoring

the word, dishonoring

the church. Heresy has

no place here, neither

does its toleration.

 

Photograph by Dan Cristian Paduret via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

“Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky,” poem by Allen Tate – D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

 

In My Father’s School Are Many Classrooms – Tim Challies.

 

The Eyes of the Old and the Young – Seth Lewis.