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God is always there in the midst of the mess of human existence, contending with the human condition, dealing with the hardness of our hearts.

Pharaoh has a heart problem, and God knows our hearts. Don't be like Pharaoh! Jesus is the antidote to a hard heart.

Someday this world will be pristine and beautiful again, but it's hard to believe because we live in a world filled with violence and cruelty. God says, “Be quiet now. I am about to judge the earth.”

Lament is an often-neglected biblical prayer language for our travels through this broken world. It’s a language for people of faith who are carrying wounds, doubts, pains, and sorrow.

What does Paul have to say about how we deal with evil?

Jesus’ followers are invited to be a new community which (unlike Jesus' own family and the scribes) will recognise what God is doing in him, and join him in his crucial work of confronting evil in the world.

A tale of two cities, contrasting this present world and the new spiritual city, in order to show the true reality of the present and the reality of the future. Poetic symbolism helps us to reimagine the world we live in and its future.

We are homing in on the greatest showdown of them all. It is time, now, for the destroyers to be destroyed. God will let evil take its course and bring its own nemesis; and, at a moment which only he is in any position to judge, he will bring the necessary closure on the world’s wrongs.

John's aim is to alert his fellow persecuted believers that behind Rome's grandeur, behind the appeal of every secular ideology of whatever century, lurks a beast that is essentially anti-god. But do not be deceived - evil will not go on for ever.

This is cosmic drama. This is Christmas from a heavenly perspective. John wants to assure his readers that if you remain faithful to Jesus it will cost you, but you will be protected and you will receive the crown of life.