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Daily Devotion

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19
Jul2025

Who may dwell?

by Emma Strelan

Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain? (Psalm 15:1)

18
Jul2025

The soldiers’ challenge

by Emma Strelan

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ they said (Matthew 27:28,29).

17
Jul2025

Standing firm in truth

by Emma Strelan

Then Pilate asked him, ‘Don’t you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?’ But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge – to the great amazement of the governor (Matthew 27:13,14).

16
Jul2025

Judas’ failure

by Emma Strelan

When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders (Matthew 27:3).

15
Jul2025

No-one flops like Peter

by Emma Strelan

Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: ‘Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.’ And he went outside and wept bitterly (Matthew 26:75).

14
Jul2025

The high priest’s challenge

by Emma Strelan

But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, ‘I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God’ (Matthew 26:63).