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In the course of this week we have taken in a huge sweep of God’s “salvation plan” for humanity. To summarise it, we could say that when anyone looks to the crucified and risen Jesus with genuine repentance of sin and wholehearted faith, trusting entirely in Him for our salvation (Numbers 21 and John 3)
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Daily Reading: Galatians 5:13-26 Today’s passage has a beautiful message of hope: By the grace of God, your personal faith in Jesus Christ has released in you a life-transforming work of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God is at work in you to transform you into a person of selfless love in a world
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Daily Reading: Psalm 104:27-35 “I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.” (v.33) It is absolutely fitting that every human being should promise: “I will sing praise to my God as long as I live”, because our lives are gifts from God. Every beat of our
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Daily Reading: Numbers 21:4-9 Grumbling and complaining is a powerful poison. It has a way of spreading through a person’s heart and mind, corrupting everything it touches and leaving an entire personality affected. Likewise, it can spread through a whole family or community, poisoning everyone’s outlook and mindset. The poisonous snakes in the wilderness were
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Daily Reading: Genesis 2:4-7 and John 3:1-17 Today we seek to learn a lesson in discipleship from the lifeless body of Adam. As it does each Monday in this Lent Series, our focus shifts from yesterday’s “Encounter” (in this case with ‘The Tempter’) to next Sunday’s “Encounter”, which in this case will be between Jesus
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Daily Reading: Matthew 26:36-46 A simple olive grove became sacred ground as the Son of God shed blood, sweat and tears in its stony soil. Three years ago, in the wilderness, He had committed Himself completely to the mission of God which had led Him to this place. Along the way He had gathered this
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Today’s Daily Reading, Deuteronomy 6:13-16, provided Jesus with ammunition to defeat two of Satan’s wilderness temptations, which came to Him in Luke 4. It’s highly likely that He had been spending time in the wilderness meditating on Deuteronomy and so, when the moment of temptation came, He was ready to fend it off with God’s
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Daily Reading: Isaiah 58 and Psalm 51 Today is Ash Wednesday, and around the world millions of Christians will have the sign of the cross applied to their foreheads in ash. Sadly, for some this will be no more than an empty religious ritual. For them it will make no real difference whatsoever. For others,
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Daily Reading: Exodus 16 Just as hunger would one day tempt Jesus in the wilderness, the fear of going hungry greatly tempted the Israelites to disobey God in Exodus 16. God had clearly promised them a sufficient supply of manna every day of the week and a double-supply every Friday, so that they could obey
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On Wednesday we will start the first week of Lent. Our attention shifts now from the “Encounter” of the “Transfiguration”, to Jesus’ “Encounter” with “The Tempter” in the wilderness. But before we get to Jesus’ victorious battle against the Tempter, we must first be reminded of why that battle was necessary in the first place
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