A buddy of mine, long ago, once gave me surfing lessons. I grew up near the ocean and was aware of its dangers. Sure enough, my first time on a board, I ended up under water, spinning, trying to discern up from down. We look at the Book of Revelation, specifically how it uses the Sea as a metaphor for the chaos of the world and the power of God. From this we draw the bottom line: the true message of Revelation, written by John of Patmos, based on visions of his from his years of exile on that rocky island.

I once prayed with a man who was watching his grandmother pass away; she had largely raised him. I prayed for a joyous eternity in the Kingdom. He asked me if the story of Jesus in the New Testament was engineered to match Old Testament prophesy, and therefore, Jesus wasn't really the Messiah promised by the prophets. We consider the classic passage in Micah that predicts a savior born in Bethlehem. We look at the aspects of this prophesy that some say were used to tailor the story of Jesus' birth. We consider the issue of faith, of believing in Jesus, and how questions like this should impact us.

I came upon a man at the San Francisco airport who was reading his Bible, studying a passage from the New Testament where Jesus speaks of himself as being a Temple. The man at the airport had had a severe conflict with his brother, another Christian, over a Bible translation, and was wishing that we could, as people of faith, come together as true community. We consider the view that as Christians, we are collectively, like Jesus, the Temple. We look at modern technology, which could be used to create an Internet Temple.