I love studying the Reformation at this season of the year. I am invigorated by listening to lectures about it on sunny, summer walks, thinking about the coming fall, which points toward another Reformation Day.

Recently my mind was drawn back to the Wartburg Castle, and I thought of Luther spending nearly a year in hiding there from May of 1521 to March of 1522, following his victorious stand at the Diet of Worms. I wonder if, while he was enduring such a trial, he ever considered his stay to be a waste of precious time.

We know that Luther experienced health struggles…

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Mortality as the Final Test of Under‑the‑Sun Meaning

Having examined wisdom, pleasure, labor, progress, and justice, Solomon’s investigation converges on the unavoidable reality that governs every under‑the‑sun endeavor: mortality. Death is not introduced as a peripheral concern or emotional interruption; it functions as the decisive criterion by which every claim to…

This is a series of short expositions of Revelation 4-22 from a futurist perspective. Follow along with a timeline here.

As John watches, the lamb cracks open the first seal binding the scroll together (Rev 6:1). There are 19 judgments contained within the seven seals, which expand outward like a telescoping hiking pole (see …