First Presbyterian Church, Sterling IL

  As much as I love words, our ability to employ them to express the inexpressible is limited.  Any description of a dream or vision, then, is necessarily inadequate. I've tried, in this sermon, to paint a picture, or compose a symphony in words, that gives the hearer or reader a sense of the indescribable. The Mighty…Lamb? Revelation 4 and 5 February 24, 2013 First Presbyterian Church, Sterling, IL Christina Berry Revelation 4:1-11 1 After this I looked, and there in heaven a door stood open! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." 2 At once I was in the spirit, and there in heaven stood a throne, with one seated on the throne! 3 And the one seated there looks like jasper and carnelian, and around the throne is a rainbow that looks like an emerald. 4 Around the throne are twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones are twenty-four elder...

The first of our series on the Book of Revelation What the Spirit is Saying to the Churches Revelation 1:3-11 February 17, 2013 First Presbyterian Church, Sterling IL Christina Berry Revelation 1: 3-11 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it; for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood,   and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.   Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail. So it...