Jan2019
Singing God’s praises
Sing a new song to the LORD! Sing to the LORD, all the world! Sing to the LORD, and praise him! Proclaim every day the good news that he has saved us. Proclaim his glory to the nations, his mighty deeds to all peoples. (verses 1-3) Read Psalm 96 Here’s a little puzzle: how do… Read more
Jan2019
A generous father
I am writing this to you so that you may know that you have eternal life – you that believe in the Son of God. We have courage in God’s presence, because we are sure that he hears us if we ask him for anything that is according to his will. He hears us whenever… Read more
Jan2019
Sin’s antidote
So those who believe in the Son of God have this testimony in their own heart; but those who do not believe God, have made a liar of him, because they have not believed what God has said about his Son. The testimony is this: God has given us eternal life, and this life has… Read more
Jan2019
A special journey
And so they left, and on their way they saw the same star they had seen in the East. When they saw it, how happy they were, what joy was theirs! It went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. They went into the house, and when they saw… Read more
Jan2019
Help from the top
Teach the king to judge with your righteousness,0 God; share with him your own justice, so that he will rule over your people with justice and govern the oppressed with righteousness. May the land enjoy prosperity; may it experience righteousness. (verses 1-3) Read Psalm 72:1-7, 18, 19 An old heading for this psalm states that… Read more
Jan2019
Only one way out
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life… Read more
Jan2019
Core values and mission statements
What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us. Those who obey God’s commands live in union with God and God lives in union with them. And because of the Spirit that God has given us we know that God lives in union… Read more
Jan2019
Love is a verb, not a noun
This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others! If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God? My children, our love should not be just… Read more
Jan2019
Name above all names
A week later, when the time came for the baby to be circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given him before he had been conceived. (verse 21) Read Luke 2:15-21 Most of us who are parents can recall the process of choosing a name for an expected or newborn child,… Read more
Dec2018
Astronomical
When I look at the sky, which you have made, at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places - what are human beings, that you think of them; mere mortals, that you care for them? Yet you made them inferior only to yourself; you crowned them with glory and honour. (verses… Read more
