by Brian Walsh
From the book of Revelation, back to Genesis, into the Torah, through the monarchy and then on to Isaiah with his prophecies of judgement, exile and return, the Wine Before Breakfast community has spent the last number of months meditating on a biblical vision of the city. We’ve posted a number of the sermons from those services here at Empire Remixed.
And it is an ambivalent vision of the city. We began with the cataclysmic Fall of Babylon and moved in our second week to the hope of a New Jerusalem. And its been back and forth all year.
One day you’re waiting for the sky to fall,
the next you’re dazzled by the beauty of it all
Apocalyptic dread and the beauty of hope. A biblical theology of the city finds itself between these two poles. Read the rest of this entry »