ENCOUNTERS
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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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Daily Reading: John 1:1-14 This beautiful passage from John’s Gospel proclaims that in Jesus the Word of God became flesh, and dwelt among humanity, shining the light of God into our darkness and making the invisible God known to us. John 1 leaves us in no doubt that the glory of God was seen in
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Daily Reading: 1 Kings 19:1-18 Successfully crying out to God to send down fire from heaven as a sign of His presence and power as the One True God (1 Kings 18:30-38) should have left Elijah on an absolute spiritual high. One would expect that seeing the gathered people of Israel falling prostrate in response
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Daily Reading: Psalm 111 There were moments in Scripture when Almighty God revealed His glory in physically visible ways. Moses beheld a glimpse of God’s glory on the mountain. The Israelites saw the cloud of God’s glory leading them in the wilderness, resting on Moses’ tent of meeting and later filling the tabernacle when it
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This coming Sunday will be Transfiguration Sunday, so the daily readings aim to help us to appreciate more deeply what happened on the Mount of Transfiguration. Daily Reading: 1 Kings 18:1-21 “10 When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the Lord. 11 And the priests could not perform their service because of
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Next Sunday we start a new sermon series in our local church. It is called “Encounters” and will focus on seven encounters Jesus had on the road to the Cross. Next Sunday will also be celebrated as Transfiguration Sunday in the vast majority of local churches around the world. We will centre our attention on
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