Luke 14:1-35 - Let God’s love flow freely in your own heart. Let it flow, from there, into the lives of others. Receive Christ and share Him with others. When the Gospel says, ‘Come; for all is ready’, there must be no excuses (17-20). When you share Christ, let there be no barriers (1-6, 12-14, …
Month: September 2021
“Do not be afraid”: “If God be for us, who can be against us?”
Luke 12:1-34 - ‘Do not fear...’ (4): ‘If God is for us, who can be against us?’ (Romans 8:31). Acknowledge Christ or deny Him (8-9): Let your choice be clear - ‘Christ means everything to me’ (Philippians 1:21). Do you want to confess Christ? - Here’s a great promise for you: ‘the Holy Spirit will …
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The Lord is not looking for lip-service. He is looking for real faith.
Luke 8:22-56 - ‘Where is your faith?’ (25). The Lord is not looking for lip-service. He is looking for real faith. Some beg Jesus ‘to depart from them’ (37). They don't want to know! Others long to ‘be with Him’ (38). They don’t want to go! Some have no interest in worship. They don’t really …
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Lord, sometimes, we feel like we’re stuck in a rut.
Genesis 12:1-20 Lord, sometimes, we feel like we’re stuck in a rut. When we feel like this, help us to see that You’ve moved on ahead of us. You’re calling us on – into Your future! Do we need to see exactly where You’re leading us? – No! We don’t! We just need to keep …
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There is no need to be discouraged.
Luke 4:1-30 - Jesus was ‘tempted by the devil’ (2). He was rejected by His enemies (28-29). When we look around us, we see nothing but temptations and rejection - What a negative way of looking at things! There is something more positive here - the presence of the Holy Spirit (1,14,18). Do not be …
The Lord is not great because we call Him great. We call Him great because He is great. — Learning From God’s Word
“Even outside the borders of Israel, the Lord is great (Malachi 1:5). The Lord is not great because we call Him great. We call Him great because He is great. When we worship God, we are not creating His greatness. We worship God because He is so much greater than we can put into words […]
A still small voice …
Is this all that there is? or Is there more?
The question of God keeps on coming back to us. It will not go away.
If there is no God, what are we left with?
Without God, we go through life, wondering “What’s this all about?”
We do our best to make it sense of it all, but we don’t seem to get anywhere with this.
The more we think about life’s most important questions the more we start to wonder if, with all our education we’re missing something.
Perhaps, when we start thinking like this, we should consider what Jesus has to say to us.
Jesus tells us that there’s a wise way of living, and there’s a foolish way of living. Jesus tells us about two builders – “a wise man who built his house on the rock” (Matthew 7:24) and “a foolish man who built his house…
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God has given us a glimpse of a future which is heavenly, eternal and glorious.
Revelation 21:9-22:21 - God has given us a glimpse of a future which is heavenly, eternal and glorious: ‘the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God - It shone with the glory of God’. Is this ‘eternal life’ for everyone? Will all people ‘dwell in the House of the Lord for ever’? …
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“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.”
Revelation 19:11-21:8 - Our Saviour is ‘Faithful and True’. He is ‘the Word of God’. He is our ‘Lord’ and ‘King’ (19:11,13,16). We are invited to ‘come’ to Him. The invitation - ‘Come, gather together for the great supper of God’ - is a call to come to Christ (19:17). We come to Christ so …
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We look away from ourselves. We look to the Lord, and we say, “Hallelujah!”
Revelation 18:1-19:10 - We read of the fall of Babylon (18:2,10,16-17,19,21). We live in a time of sinful rebellion against God. This will be followed by the time of God’s holy judgment. What is God saying to His own people at this time? - ‘Come out of her, My people, so that you will not …
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Praying Through God's Word 