Timothy 4:1-16 Watching the horror of the war in Ukraine on our screens, we are so grateful to live in a country at peace not war. But spiritually we are at war. This is not peace time. Spiritually we are under attack. There is a war on; a battle for truth. This passage tells us how to wage the good warfare.
But even more important is spiritual health, and that concern is central to this letter. Churches and Christians grow spiritually healthy through a diet of sound, health-giving teaching – and by steering well away from spiritual junk food.
Where does our joy and strength come from? Particularly when times are hard? The people of God are to look to him for all their joy. It is their duty and delight. For us today as we live in this world as citizens of the next, we need to have our souls refreshed and strengthened by the joy of the Lord.
The word of God central to the worship of God by his people. We need to not treat it as secondary, side-line it, or substitute it. We should certainly realise that it is for everyone and needs to be understood. And our relationship with God should be strengthened by his word, leading us to worship and joy.
1 Kings 20:1-43 What comes to mind when we hear the word ‘God’ really matters. If the God in my mind does not correspond to the God who is actually there, I’m worshipping a false god. It’s worthless idolatry. In this chapter something of what God is like is revealed to us, so that we might know him better.
Ezekiel 37:1-14 The Wharf is a vibrant, bustling, thriving global financial centre with some 120,000 workers. But spiritually speaking, it’s a valley of dry bones. What hope is there? The vision which God gave the prophet Ezekiel is one of the most powerful passages in the Bible. It tells us how to turn dry bones into living people, spiritually speaking.
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Faced with death, whether spiritual or physical, we are helpless. But God is in the resurrection business. He brings new life through his Word and Spirit. And so proclamation and prayer should be our focus in a frantic world.
Genesis 1:1-5 Many in our culture assume that science has now disproved God, and the Genesis creation account is just a myth. But the scientific evidence says otherwise. The Creator has left his fingerprints all over creation.
Genesis 1:1-2 Many in our culture assume that science has now disproved God, and the Genesis creation account is just a myth. But the scientific evidence says otherwise. The Creator has left his fingerprints all over creation.
2 Timothy 3:10-4:8The world has a Saviour, but it needs proclaimers who will tell them what the Word says.
