Category: August

Day 11 Seeing Jesus

Seeing Jesus I heard a story recently that goes back to the 1940’s. Korea had been invaded and occupied by the Japanese. A Korean Christian at that time was given a magazine with a picture of what an artist thought Jesus’ face might have looked like. The Korean was fascinated for a number of reasons.

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Day 12 The Mark of Jesus

The Mark of Jesus The last night Jesus spent with His disciples was a bitter-sweet experience for Him. He knew He would die the next day and knew how imperative it was for His disciples to stay together. If He had left them any time in the preceding three years, they would have scattered, and

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Day 13 ‘John’ is Different

 ‘John’ is Different John’s gospel is carefully put together. Written twenty to thirty years after each of the other three gospels, John has included stories and conversations the others left out. The context of Jesus’ teaching about love is particularly important to John. The first command to ‘Love one another’ (John 13:34) comes at the

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Day 14 The Meeting Place

The Meeting Place The early Christian church was both a wonderful and dangerous place to be. As Jesus had said at the beginning of His ministry, the meeting place between God and man was no longer in the temple. The new meeting place was in Himself (John 2:21). As the early church began to form,

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Day 15 Standing Alone

Standing Alone Jonathon Goforth was the first Presbyterian missionary to China. He was not only a good friend of Hudson Taylor but shares with him the honour of being God’s most effective instrument in opening up that great nation in the latter part of the 19th century. Jonathon grew up in Canada at a time

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Day 16 Never Give Up

Never Give Up ‘From Paphos, Paul and his companions sailed to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem’ (Acts 13:13) Paul and Barnabus were in the early stages of what we now call the first missionary journey. They had been prophetically called, commissioned and sent out from the growing church in

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Day 17 None the Same

None the Same They say there are no two snowflakes that are exactly the same. Billions of snowflakes fall but each is different to every other. No two people are the same. Even identical twins are different. What is true in the natural world is true of our salvation. No two testimonies are the same.

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Day 18 In God’s Light

In God’s Light ‘In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son’  Hebrews 1:1,2 The letter we know as Hebrews was written to Jewish Christians who were finding the Christian life too hard.

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Day 19 The First Missionary

The First Missionary Women were not given a prominent place in the Jewish culture of Jesus’ day. This makes the part Mary Magdalene played in the story of what happened when Jesus rose from the dead even more unusual. We’re told Mary had seven demons cast out of her. This means she was probably earlier

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Day 20 Jesus Is…….

 Jesus Is……. In the opening verses of Hebrews, the writer makes seven extraordinary statements about Jesus. Three are in relation to the creation; two relate to the Creator; and two to the creatures in the creation. In relation to the creation, Jesus is: (1) the heir of all things – as a father would make

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