Lesson from Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Our E100 finished up this week with the book of Revelation. This book is often regarded as one of the most difficult books to understand in the Bible, yet this perception is typically based on a fundamental misunderstanding of it, in my opinion. When read as a pictorial roadmap of future events through which we can make confident and direction connections to current events, it is indeed very difficult. However, if we instead read the book with an understanding of its symbolic, rather than pictorial nature, it becomes much more clear and understandable. Hopefully our discussion of it in class can help make this distinction clear.
Riverside Blood Drive on Sunday, May 30
It’s that time again. Riverside will be hosting its second blood drive for the Indiana Blood Center on Sunday, May 30 from 2:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. The Bloodmobile will be in the parking lot. Don’t miss this chance to be a part of the life-saving network in our community. You can sign up at the worship service on Sunday or you can sign up online HERE.
Indiana Blood Center is a vital link in Indiana’s health care infrastructure, supplying more than 550 units of blood to more than 60 Indiana hospitals every day. The nonprofit community service organization was founded in 1952 to provide a continuous, safe and adequate supply of blood products and testing services. For more information about the blood donation process visit www.indianablood.org.
Riverside Facilities Update
More than a year ago, the Riverside Leadership Team assembled a Development Committee to evaluate Riverside’s current facility usage and future needs.
Last summer Riverside voted to acquire the white house next to our property upon the recommendation of the Development Committee and the Leadership Team. The Riverside offices and Senior High and Junior High youth have now moved into the house freeing up badly needed children’s space in our main facility.
The Throne of Heaven – Revelation 4:1 – 7:17
Scripture text for Wednesday, May 19th, 2010: Revelation 4:1 – 7:17
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“This is an apocalyptic passage, through and through. Interestingly, there is wide appeal for this genre, especially when you consider apocalyptic films. Recent examples would include the Terminator series, I am Legend, and V is for Vendetta. I would speculate on at least the following two reasons for this. First, we like to know where we are going and so, we enjoy a film that seeks to capture that even if we know the odds of it happening as it does in any one film are very low. We like to at least think and imagine various ways the world might go. Second, we recognize that the world, the universe, is in fact much, much bigger than any one of us. These films confirm this recognition by portraying large numbers of people and their lives being completely overwhelmed by the events.
E100 Week 18 Discovery Hour
Lesson from Sunday, May 8th, 2010
The set of passages this week made it very hard to choose which of the passages to focus on. Nearly all five of the passages seemed to be ripe for discussion but of course we can’t do that. As such, I whittled it down to two.
I Thessalonians focuses on the return of Christ and what is typically referred to as the rapture, though there is no single word for this event in scripture. This passage is one of the most extensive treatments we have on the second coming of Christ. There are differing views on when this event will take place. Pre-millennialists believe Christ will return prior to the inauguration of the thousand year reign spoken of in Revelation 20. They tend to see the world as growing more and more wicked, leading to the tribulation, and the return of Christ to establish his reign. Post-millennialists believe Christ will not return until the end of the thousand year reign and so tend to see the world as becoming more and more Christian, with the tribulation at the end. This leads to a more optimistic view of human society and, some would say, historically the push for the social gospel as the sooner Christ’s kingdom is ushered in here on this earth the sooner he will return.
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