From Out of the Depths Psalm 130:1-8

Please turn with me to Psalm 130. If you were to ask me what my favorite Psalms were I don’t think you would be surprised that among them would be: 1, 8, 15, 23, 51, 90, 100, 103, 119, 121, 139 and 145.
If you were to ask Martin Luther what were…

Slaying the Dragon Rev 12:1-17

Chapter 12 amounts to another kind of parenthesis or interlude. In the chapter John explains the origin of the persecution of the church and its tribulations in the world. Once again John pulls back to survey the entire course of history and to expla…