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Daily Devotion

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23
Feb2025

Being merciful

by Carolyn Ehrlich

Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful (Luke 6:36).

22
Feb2025

Waiting in faith

by Rev Dr Noel Due

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not over the one who prospers, over the man who carries out evil (Psalm 37:7)!

21
Feb2025

News spreads, but no-one hears

by Rev Dr Noel Due

But they went away and spread his fame through all that district (Matthews 9:31).

20
Feb2025

Jesus is a ‘joke’…?

by Rev Dr Noel Due

[Jesus] said, ‘Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping’. And they laughed at him (Matthew 9:24).

19
Feb2025

Don’t drop the plonk!

by Rev Dr Noel Due

Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. The skins burst, the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins (Matthew 9:17).

18
Feb2025

Jesus eludes a trap

by Rev Dr Noel Due

For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’, or to say, ‘Rise and walk?’ (Matthew 9:5)