Luke Ch 6 verse 38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. This is one of those verses that will never become truly meaningful without actually … Read more
Luke Ch 2 verses 46,51 & 52 After 3 days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions…..Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth…..and increased in wisdom and in years. Waiting is something many of us have had to do this year. … Read more
Psalm 137 verse 1 By the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. To those of a certain age, these words will remind them of a pop song of the late 1970’s, sung by the group Boney M. They took some Hebrew words of around 2,500 years old and made a … Read more
Luke Ch 16 verse 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’” This verse comes at the end of the story that Jesus told about a rich man and the poor man Lazarus, who both … Read more
Psalm 111 verse 5 ‘He remembers His covenant for ever.’ This is the God we serve, who is Holy, trustworthy and pure. This verse gives us such reassurance; that the new and living way – the New Covenant – to the Father, enabled by the Son, is sure and steadfast. As this verse says, … Read more
Psalm 61 This short Psalm (just 8 verses!) speaks of Assurance, and in particular of assurance of God’s protection. The word Assurance brings to mind the Hymn ‘Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine, O what a foretaste of glory Divine’. There is something precious, immovable and solid about assurance of faith which is a gift of … Read more
Hebrews Ch 12 verse 14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. Sometimes living in peace with others is not always easy, whether it be family members, work colleagues, neighbours, or even some who attend the same Church! We do not necessarily … Read more
Ephesians Ch 6 verse 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Whilst we can see injustices in society, terrible wrongs done in the world that we live in, and … Read more
2 Corinthians Ch 5 verse 8 absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord Even Christians have a tendency to be rooted on earth, and in all the things that we as humans find the need to spend time in doing. In the first part of this chapter, in his second … Read more
Romans Ch 8 verse 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus I love the word ‘therefore’, when it is found in any of the apostle Paul’s letters, it signifies that what he has told his readers previously has a significance on what he is about to say. In … Read more
