“When the sweep of God's sickles brings final harvest to the earth, separating grain from grapes, the present system of power and prestige will be reversed. The pagan persecutors who now tread the holy city underfoot (Rev. 11:2) will be… — Dennis E. Johnson Copy Share
“When the sweep of God's sickles brings final harvest to the earth, separating grain from grapes, the present system of power and prestige will be reversed. The pagan persecutors who now tread the holy city underfoot (Rev. 11:2) will be trodden underfoot by the church's mighty avenger (14:20). Their defiling blood pours from a winepress "outside the city," for those… — Dennis E. Johnson Copy Share
“God shows covenant faithfulness to families through the generations, but in the last analysis the people of God are defined Christocentrically, not genealogically. The issue is not birth from the flesh but birth from the Spirit (John 3:6), just as the circumcision that marks God's people is not a fleshly surgery but a cleansing of the heart by the Spirit… — Dennis E. Johnson Copy Share
“As Christians see societies crumble and collapse, our response should not be terrified alarm, as though our security were bound up with a fragile… — Dennis E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The death of awe in our culture has left us with an oddly credulous cynicism. We are cynical, suspicious of established government, education, technology,… — Dennis E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The reduction of human experience to the explicable is a desperate act of faith in our power to create reality ("what we cannot explain… — Dennis E. Johnson Copy Share Image
