Show Mercy In Mark’s account of the setting free of the Gadarene demoniac, Jesus tells him ‘Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you …’ (Mark 5:21). The next part is telling ‘… and how He had mercy on you’ (v.21). Our salvation is all
Jesus is Lord The heart of the early Christian confession was the Lordship of Christ. Salvation comes by confessing Jesus as Lord. ‘… if you confess with your mouth “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved’ (Romans 10:9). This confession can only be
Struggles and Battles ‘The Lord had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua. These are the nations the Lord left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan (he did this only to teach
God’s Family Even though it is marred, we still carry the image and likeness of God (James 3:9). In some ways we still ‘resemble’ God. Our desires for love, mercy, grace and justice for instance, mirror God’s character and desires, and show this image hasn’t completely disappeared. Humanity is now like a ruined castle, dilapidated
The Bible ‘… when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe’ (1 Thessalonians 2:13) The Bible is more than just words on a page. The
The God of Detail Soon after the January 2011 floods, someone asked me if I was able to save my Bible College notes. At the time I was only just coming to grips with how much was actually lost. I had to tell them “They’re all gone.” Even though the notes represented thousands of hours
Health from Thankfulness What does the Bible mean when it says God made man in His own image and likeness (Genesis 1:27)? God doesn’t physically look like us. The Father has no body. The Holy Spirit has no body. And before Jesus became a human being He had no body. At least part of the
Confession ‘Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out. Let them be before the Lord continually, that He may cut off their memory from the earth’ (Psalm 109:14,15) David knew that while any sin is ‘before the Lord’ that sin
Being Gifted ‘And David realised that the Lord had established him as king over Israel, and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of His people Israel’ (1 Chronicles 14:2) God raised up David ‘for the sake of His people Israel’. God raises up ministries today ‘for the sake of His people the
Our Destiny In 2 Corinthians 5, Paul writes about the Judgement Seat of Christ. Just before this section he has been talking about the tension between living in a body (that is slowly dying) and his desire to leave this world to enter the next. In this body ‘we groan, being burdened’ (v.4). Everything points
