A Treasure Chest 2 Timothy 3:16 is a little treasure chest all by itself. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness The Scripture is said to be useful in four ways: (1) teaching God’s word firstly gives us God’s standard – the clear expression of what God
Our Bridegroom? Imagine this. You have been asked to help a young man. He’s fighting tears as he sits down with you. He doesn’t know what to do. Two years earlier he met and soon fell in love with a woman who showed all the same feelings for him as he felt for her. They
The Compassion of God Christ showed the most extraordinary compassion, but did His compassion come from His deity or from His humanity? Christ’s compassion came from His deity. Even if Jesus had never become a man in full humanity, He would show exactly the same level of compassion as He did as a man on
The Safest Place Funerals are unique for all kind of reasons. For one thing you generally hear stories about the one who’s died – things you never knew about them. At one funeral a grown up son told his earliest recollection of his father. Paul was only three or four but remembers vividly the day
Random Kindness Mark Mittleburg is a name unknown to most of us. He’s a Christian writer who helps people learn to share their faith. One day he ducked into a shop to buy flowers for his wife. As he stood in the queue, an elderly lady ahead of him noticed the bouquet. “Is it your
His Complete Sacrifice We’re continuing to look at the book of Hebrews. This was a letter sent to Jewish Christians who were facing suffering as Christians and were wanting to return to Judaism. Last week we saw in chapter 8 and much of chapter 9 how Hebrew’s author said Christ was the greatest high priest
The Strength of Faith The book of Hebrews is a letter sent to suffering Jewish Christians who wanted to let go of their Christianity and return to their original Jewish faith. We come now to chapter 11. The writer says that faith has purchased for us our ticket to a ‘better country’ – the same
The Victory Matthew 12:29 has been a favourite scripture of mine for many years. “… how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob his house” Jesus had just delivered a demonised man who could now both see and talk for
Don’t Major on Minors Jesus was scathing of the Pharisees. Most of Matthew 23 is given over to Jesus’ denunciation of their practices. They were so meticulous, so exacting, but finished up missing what really mattered. The Pharisees were fastidious about tithing. They refused to eat in anyone’s home for fear the person living there
The Sensitive Dove Many years ago a British couple accepted a call from their denomination to be missionaries in Israel. A house was provided for them near Jerusalem. After settling in they noticed that a dove had also made its home with them nesting in the eaves. But soon they noticed that any loud noises
