Nov2018
Utterly meaningful!
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless:’ What do people gain from all their labours at which they toil under the sun? (verses 2,3) Read Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 King Solomon, a man blessed with great wisdom, wrote ‘Everything is meaningless! In another translation it says, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity” He was… Read more
Nov2018
Too good to miss
This book is the record of the events that Jesus Christ revealed. God gave him this revelation in order to show to his servants what must happen very soon. Christ made these things known to his servant John by sending his angel to him, and John has told all that he has seen. This is… Read more
Nov2018
Our God is an awesome God
The LORD is king. He is clothed with majesty and strength. The earth is set firmly in place and cannot be moved. Your throne, O LORD, has been firm from the beginning, and you existed before time began. (verses 1, 2) Read Psalm 93 There is a song with a line that echoes the thoughts of… Read more
Nov2018
Are you well watered?
They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more. Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow. (verses 12,13) Read Jeremiah 31:10-14 Living in the Riverland in South… Read more
Nov2018
Be a blessing!
Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed Pharaoh, Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?” And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage… Read more
Nov2018
Tear of reconciliation
When they arrived in the region of Goshen, Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father and wept for a long time. (verses 28,29) Read Genesis 46:1-7, 28-34 Tears are a strange thing really…. Read more
Nov2018
Do you have enough?
So they went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. They told him, “Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt:’ Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them. But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he… Read more
Nov2018
The great deliverance
“God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God.” (verses 7,8) Read Genesis 45:1-15 Joseph finally revealed his true identity to his brothers. As the ruler of Egypt, second… Read more
Nov2018
Encouragers
Let us hold on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can trust God to keep his promise. Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good. Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage… Read more
Nov2018
We are never forgotten
I am thankful and glad, and I feel completely secure, because you protect me from the power of death, and the one you love you will not abandon to the world of the dead. (verses 9,10) Read Psalm 16 How quickly people are forgotten after they have died! It sometimes takes a lot of delving… Read more
