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Daily Readings: James 1:1-18 and Hebrews 10:32-39 So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised. Hebrews 10:35-36 Like those to whom
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Daily Reading: James 1:1-18 and Matthew 5:1-12 In our passage from Matthew, verses 6 & 10 are clearly very closely related. They read as follows in the Good News translation:6 “Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires; God will satisfy them fully! … 10 “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do
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Today we start our new series of devotions in the “Life-Letter of James”, that intensely practical letter written to the early persecuted Church by James, the half-brother of Jesus. James was the leader and pastor of the Church in Jerusalem, and when many followers of Jesus were scattered away from Jerusalem by persecution, James wrote
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Daily Reading: Psalm 19 The great Christian theologian, St. Augustine, articulated an idea that was held by a number of early “Church Fathers”, when he wrote that there are in fact two holy books by which God is revealed to us – the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture. Psalm 19 appears to
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Daily Reading: Psalm 104 “1 Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendour and majesty.” As we read Psalm 104, we should bear in mind that psalms are poetry. They are not history, books of law, scientific theories, letters or Gospels. The psalmist is expressing deep truth in poetic imagery. In this particular
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Daily Reading: Job 38 By the time we reach chapter 38 of the Book of Job, this embattled man and his friends have been wrestling with the great question of human suffering, and God’s place in our suffering. For his friends it was theoretical, but for Job it was all about his personal experience of
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Daily Reading: Genesis 2 Like zooming in to a specific area on an electronic map, Genesis 2 zooms in on the moment first recorded in Genesis 1 when God created humanity. There we discover that, unlike any other living creature, Adam was not created from dust alone. In a deeply intimate moment, God also breathed
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Daily Reading: Genesis 1 As Spring sets in, we start a week of celebrating the glory of God in creation. “In the beginning God created …” Everything that is not God, was created by God’s will and God’s word. It is all God’s creative expression. The vast, as yet immeasurable expanse of the Cosmos. The
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Daily Reading: Luke 24:36-49 “Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” (v.39) The resurrected body of Jesus is a flesh and bones body. Certainly, 1 Corinthians 15 explains clearly that it is a different form of flesh – a resurrected flesh – a glorified flesh.
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Daily Reading: Luke 7:36-50 Today’s reading gives us a glimpse of Jesus receiving love through physical touch, from a woman who seems to have had a rather questionable past. As her dramatic gesture unfolded, Jesus’ host muttered under his breath: ‘If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what
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