Join us for our Summer Speaker Series! Our topic this Summer is “Living Faithfully in Turbulent Times.”
We’ll be kicking off with Dr. Tremper Longman on June 22.
Wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Partisan conflict in the United States. Fluctuating tariff policies. If there is one thing on which we can all agree, it is that we live in uncertain times. Daniel, taken as a young man as a political hostage to Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon, also lived during uncertain times. The book that bears his name has two main parts. Daniel 1-6 has six stories about Daniel living in a foreign court. Daniel 7-12 contains four apocalyptic visions. Every story and every vision has the same message to the people of God living in anxious times: “In spite of present troubles, God is in control and will have the final victory.” We will take a close look at Daniel 7, the vision of one like the son of man riding a cloud and defeating four terrifying monsters that have emerged from a chaotic sea. While strange to us, we will see that the imagery was clear to its contemporary audience. Its message is important for the church to hear today.
