Pastor Scott's Musings

 Sermon for Milledgeville & Whitestown UMC... Living With Evil ( Revelation 12:1-13:18 )   A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.   She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.   Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon  with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads....  The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.   Revelation 12:1-4 John has a vision in the sky. A woman in the pain of childbirth is threatened by a massive red dragon with 7 heads. The child is destined to rule the nations with a rod iron, a reference to the messiah. (Genesis 49:10; Psalm 2:8-9) The child to be born is Jesus.   We might assume the woman in John’s vision is Mary, the mother of...

 Sermon for Milledgeville & Whitestown UMC... Living With the Coming Kingdom (Revelation 10:1-11:19)   A king has 3 cups in front of him. The first 2 cups are full, the third cup is empty. What is his name? King Philip III   Did you hear about the king who was only 12 inches tall. He was a terrible king but a great ruler.   Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven.  He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars.   Revelation 10:1 God holds a scroll sealed with 7 seals. As the 7 th seal is broken, seven angels blow seven trumpets bringing plagues, disaster, and war, which unravels the current world, birthing a new one. Soon the 7 th trumpet will announce the reign of King Jesus.   After the 6 th trumpet sounds and hellish army is loosed upon the earth, John sees a mighty angel from heaven standing with one foot in the sea a...