2 Timothy 3:1-17 This past week the government declared a national emergency, issuing a severe weather warning. With temperatures hitting 40, life has been a struggle. This Bible passage is the spiritual equivalent – a warning about extreme spiritual heat ahead for the true believer, and instruction about how to cope with it.
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 19:8-21 If you just had 1 Kings 18 you might think the life of faith is to be spent camped out on Mt Carmel waiting for fire to come down from heaven. But these chapters about Elijah are a tale of two mountains. What happens on Mt Horeb, the mount of God, is very different – and very important for us to understand.
Luke 10:38-42 We all struggle to prioritise. What should come first, what can I leave until later? But clear priorities can come with health warnings. They will be things that make us most anxious and will generate the most frustration when people get in our way. Listen is as Jesus gives us our only priority – Listening at his feet.
Luke 10:38-42 We all struggle to prioritise. What should come first, what can I leave until later? But clear priorities can come with health warnings. They will be things that make us most anxious and will generate the most frustration when people get in our way. Listen is as Jesus gives us our only priority – Listening at his feet.
2 Peter 1:16-21 ‘Fake news’ seems to be everywhere these days. How do we know what to believe? And especially, how can we believe in a book that was written so long ago in different languages by unknown people? Take a whistle-stop tour through the many reasons why we can and must trust the Bible.
variousSometimes there is an unhelpful stereotype which divides Christians into those who are into the Word and those who are into the Spirit. What is the relationship between Word and Spirit? And how do we hear the voice of God today?
variousSometimes there is an unhelpful stereotype which divides Christians into those who are into the Word and those who are into the Spirit. What is the relationship between Word and Spirit? And how do we hear the voice of God today?
Isaiah 65 Hundreds of millions of people profess to worship God – but there is a huge spectrum of beliefs about what he is like and how to worship him. They can’t all be right. What is true worship? And why does it matter that we get it right?
