He does miracles when we need them – not for our entertainment or to make us feel “spiritual.

The book of Revelation is a book of worship that summons us to recognize the awesome majesty of our Lord.

Only by depending on God’s power can we offer worship truly worthy of his honor.

As a young Christian, I was praying fervently one day for guidance on a particular issue when I felt the Spirit gently interrupt. I was shocked to think I heard him suggest that I was too busy seeking his will. How could that be? Then I heard the rest of his suggestion. “Don’t seek my will in this matter. Seek me – and then you will know my will.” Seeking God’s will is important, but in this case my focus was wrong.

Revelation addresses many issues that have not changed because human nature and God’s character have remained constant. It.

Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases – through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam’s donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.

No one who beats his wife or children, spreads slander in a congregation, or harbors perpetual unforgiveness in his or her heart is full of the Spirit, no matter how many supernatural gifts he or she claims to have.

God alone is God, and he alone merits first place – beyond every other love, every other anxiety, every other fear that consumes us.

Millions of Bible-reading Christians who today call themselves charismatics do not believe in health and wealth teachings.

Until those charismatic churches who have poor teaching can supply both spiritual empowerment and sounder teaching, many of them will continue to be only a way station for Christians who need a fresh spiritual experience but who end up taking it elsewhere once they have it.