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Currently Hearing: The Eventually Home by Right Away, Great Captain!
Currently Reading: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I did it.

My first quarter is basically over. Well, all the hard parts, at least.

After meeting with my pastor today, I really want to speak a little bit about some passages from Hebrews and 1 John, but I am way too tired right now. So, I will use this post as a note to remind myself about it later when my nose is less runny and I have gotten a chance to sleep in.

Instead, I will give you this quote from a book I read that has probably changed the way I will read Revelation forever:

“…every faithful Christian must be prepared to die. The call to conquer allows no middle ground where Christians may hope to avoid death by compromising with the beast. In the situation John envisages, martyrdom belongs, as it were, to the essential nature of faithful witness. Not every faithful witness will actually be put to death, but all faithful witness requires the endurance and the faithfulness (13:10) that will accept martyrdom if it comes.” – Richard Bauckham, The Theology of the Book of Revelation, 93-94.

That's tasty. Tasty and convicting.