Nov2019
Death – It’s power is gone
The Sovereign Lord will destroy death forever! He will wipe away the tears from everyone’s eyes and take away the disgrace his people have suffered throughout the world. The Lord himself has spoken. When it happens, everyone will say, ‘He is our God! We have put our trust in him, and he has rescued us…. Read more
Oct2019
Saved by Grace through Faith
Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their Glory for worthless idols. (verse 9) Read Jeremiah 2:1-11 Just over 500 years ago, an Augustinian monk and great Biblical scholar started discovering a truth in Scripture that had become obscured by the church of… Read more
Oct2019
Enlarge our hearts
David tore his clothes in sorrow, and all his men did the same. They grieved and mourned and fasted until evening for Saul and Jonathan and for Israel, the people of the Lord, because so many had been killed in battle. (verses 11, 12) Read 2 Samuel 1:1-16 Many are the stories of mateship among… Read more
Oct2019
In the dark, God is there
He said to the young man carrying his weapons, ‘Draw your sword and kill me, so that these godless Philistines won’t gloat over me and kill me.’ But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it. The young man saw that Saul was… Read more
Oct2019
On Track with Jesus
When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was terrified, and so he asked the Lord what to do. But the Lord did not answer him at all, either by dreams or by the use of Urim and Thummim or by prophets. Then Saul ordered his officials, ‘Find me a woman who is a medium, and… Read more
Oct2019
A Wake-up Prayer
‘But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, “God, have pity on me, a sinner!” I tell you,’ said Jesus, ‘the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For all… Read more
Oct2019
Where’s God?
How happy are those whose strength comes from you, who are eager to make the pilgrimage to Mount Zion. As they pass through the dry Baca Valley, it becomes a place of springs; the autumn rain fills it with pools. They grow stronger as they go; they will see the God of gods on Zion…. Read more
Oct2019
A better opportunity
Then he said to David, ‘You are right, and I am wrong. You have been so good to me, while I have done such wrong to you! Today you have shown how good you are to me, because you did not kill me, even though the Lord put me in your power. How often does… Read more
Oct2019
Sharing the pain
After the boy had left, David got up from behind the pile of stones, fell on his knees and bowed with his face to the ground three times. Both he and Jonathan were crying as they kissed each other; David’s grief was even greater than Jonathan’s. Then Jonathan said to David, ‘God be with you…. Read more
Oct2019
