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Sermon: October 26th, 2025 | Bryan Vaughn | Reading Revelation Through The Right Lens

What comes to mind when we hear “apocalypse”? In this week’s message, we rediscover the biblical meaning of *apokalypsis*—not devastation, but revelation: an unveiling of Jesus and God’s kingdom breaking into our present. Bryan walks us through Revelation 1 and shows how the book functions as letter, prophecy, and apocalyptic vision—written to real churches under pressure, and still speaking to us today. We’re invited to read Revelation as a lens that exalts the living Christ, strengthens hope in the midst of “Babylon,” and gathers the Bible’s storylines into one: the slain Lamb who reigns…

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