FAITH
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During the coming week (14-18 April 2025) we’ll pause our journey through the Psalms to focus on moments from Jesus’ final week in Jerusalem. As usual, I encourage you to read and prayerfully reflect on the passage for the day and then to try to write a prayer based on that reading in your journal.
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Daily Readings: Revelation 21-22 and Psalm 63 The final chapters of the Revelation are filled with the promise of the new creation. When Jesus returns as King and Lord of all, the entire universe is re-created, never to be corrupted by sin again. In this glorious new creation, God dwells with His people in a
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Daily Readings: Revelation 15-16 and Psalm 60 In chapters 15-16, John sees a different depiction of God’s will for the progression of the Age of the End, this time symbolised in the seven bowls of God’s wrath. Wrath means God’s settled anger against sin (i.e. rebellion against His love and His will), and I marvel that
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Daily Readings: Revelation 10-11 and Psalm 58 If we step back to take a birds-eye, life-application view of the deep symbolism of Revelation 10-11, I feel a devotional message for the believer might just become apparent. This revelation about the Age of the End seems directed at the People of God specifically. After all, we
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Daily Readings: Luke 22 and Psalm 38 31 ‘Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.’ Satan came to Jesus in the wilderness (all the way back in Luke 4), seeking
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Daily Readings: Luke 17 and Psalm 33 3 So watch yourselves. If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. 4 Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying “I repent,” you must forgive them.’ “You must forgive them.” When
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Daily Readings: Luke 5 and Psalm 21 As I read and reflect on Luke 5, I’m struck by the contrasting reactions to Jesus and His ministry. On the one hand there are those who are awestruck by His authority, power or forgiveness. In awe of Jesus, Peter “fell at Jesus’ knees” (v.8). Knowing of Jesus
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Daily Readings: Hebrews 12-13 and Psalm 16 In Hebrews 11, the author celebrated the faith of a long list of heroes and heroines. As chapter 12 begins, he exhorts his readers to realise that they are part of the same Family as these “witnesses”, who had stayed faithful despite the worst forms of trial and
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Daily Readings: Hebrews 5-6 and Psalm 12 The focus of this devotional is Hebrews 6:1-12. This difficult passage can best be understood from a bird’s-eye view. Zoom in too closely and the details of the author’s argument may prove very confusing indeed. But the big picture is captured in a few key statements in verses
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Daily Readings: Hebrews 3-4 and Psalm 11 Hebrews 3-4 mainly focuses on the issue of Christians remaining steadfastly faithful and holding on to our faith in Jesus all the way to the end, so that we may ultimately enter the eternal rest that God has prepared for us. With that in mind, and writing about
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