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Surely this is the sort of thing Christians should be doing? At first sight there is nothing unusual about this statement, but the...

“Don’t you remember…?” Matthew 16.9 The disciples were in the boat and wondering where their lunch was coming from! In his encouragement...

Two opposing states of mind are noted in today’s verse: a peace with who we are and what we have, contrasted with an envy because we want...

‘They also failed to show kindness…’ Judges 8.35 At the end of the story of Gideon, after all his service to his people, we are told that...

“This is what the Lord says: ’If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer...

“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.” Isaiah 43.25 Why do we hold on to...

‘And they sang a new song before the throne’ Revelation 14.3 Praying according to how we are feeling at a particular time is natural, yet...

‘… and there before me was a throne …’ Revelation 4.2 The Bible speaks of both Isaiah and John having visions of the throne of God. What...

‘… a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When...

Here, Luke recalls one of the final promises of Jesus, that even though he was going to ascend to heaven he would send the gift of the...

‘You have forgotten God your Saviour; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.’ Isaiah 17.10 This simple fact – that when we most...

‘How much more, then, will the blood of Christ … cleanse our consciences … so that we may serve the living God!’ Hebrews 9.14 What stops...

“Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and...

The Lord’s faithfulness to Sarah, the wife of Abraham, is summarised in this verse. It says everything he had promised her came about,...

“Praise the Lord …” Psalm 148.1 All creation is called to praise God in this psalm – everyone and everything, living and inanimate, and...

‘… Jesus Christ … has made us to be … priests to serve his God and Father.’ Revelation 1.6 Jesus making you a ‘priest’ might seem quite...

We are a kingdom. We have Jesus as our king and we are the ones for whom Jesus is pleased to be king. Jesus has made all of us to be a...

What do you understand by the word ‘forgiveness’? More often than not, we think of it in terms of Jesus taking the punishment for what we...

‘… Jesus Christ, … who loves us…’ Revelation 1.5 Our focus over the past few days has been some glorious aspects of Jesus: Jesus, the...

To some extent, we are all at the mercy of other people. Sometimes you may feel this more keenly, particularly if you feel subject to...