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When You Think it’s All Over, And That End is a New Beginning

Anita Mathias — Mon, 04 May 2015 13:26:29 +0000

So John, beautiful, sensitive evangelist, is exiled to Patmos, a Roman penal colony, by the Emperor Diocletian. It’s all over for him. He who had been one of the three with Jesus at every climactic moment of his ministry; who had leaned on Jesus at the Last Supper feeling the physical and verbal beat of […]

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In Which Jesus Gives Us A New Name And A New Character

Anita Mathias — Thu, 29 May 2014 17:05:33 +0000

To the one who is victorious, I will also give a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it. Revelation 2:17 And so, we heave up our cross, And follow him, Oh, not spectacularly at all. Dropping it, Meandering off course, Sometimes forgetting we had resolved To […]

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Opening a New Chapter, a New Year, under God’s Secret Service Protection

Anita Mathias — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 12:49:13 +0000

Image: Christ in glory in front of the Heavenly Jerusalem, (Mosaic, Burne-Jones, St. Paul’s within the walls, Rome) I listened to the entire Bible on my iPhone this year—the NIV’s dramatised edition– as I walked the country trails around Oxfordshire. And the year dies spectacularly as one walks listening to Revelation—chilling, majestic, dramatic. His […]

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