HOLINESS
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Daily Reading: 2 Corinthians 7 and Psalm 125 10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. In the Christian life and in our pursuit of pleasing God, there is a very clear distinction to be made between feeling sad or sorry for something sinful we have
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 11 and Psalm 119: 65-96 In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul’s concern was to teach the Christian community in Corinth to worship the Lord with the honour due to Him. That is the heart of everything that follows. When it comes to codes of dress for Christians attending worship, different people and
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 10 and Psalm 119:49-64 1 Corinthians 9 highlighted the importance of a single-minded pursuit of Christlikeness and God’s will in all things. In 1 Cor. 10, Paul uses the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness to warn us against the temptations that might derail us from that pursuit. He warns
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 6 and Psalm 118 1 Corinthians 6 is filled with Holy Spirit-inspired instruction and correction from Paul. Although he addressed a range of areas where the Corinthian Christians were falling into sinful tendencies, the heart of his instruction was to remind them that their salvation had begun with repentance from sin.
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Daily Readings: Acts 15 and Psalm 82 “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements …” (v.28) Acts 15 reflects a watershed moment in the history of Christ’s Body, the Church. The early Church had to discern whether the LORD required Gentile believers
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Daily Readings: Acts 5 and Psalm 73 13 No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. 14 Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. What a wonderfully confusing statement: No one dared join them, nevertheless, more and more believed in the
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Daily Readings: John 15 and Psalm 48 The big idea of Jesus’ metaphor of the Vine and His branches in John 15 is quite clear: Jesus wants us (His disciples) to remain deeply united to Him in an intimate relationship of fellowship and love. The metaphor (and Jesus’ explanation thereof) also promises us that our
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Daily Readings: John 14 and Psalm 47 Having reflected on John 12 and 13 in Holy Week, we now skip forward to John 14. Jesus and the apostles were in the Upper Room (although Judas Iscariot had already left to betray Jesus), and Jesus began to speak of what life would be like for them
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Daily Readings: John 8 and Psalm 43 Every human being’s life is in so many ways fashioned by the daily decisions one makes; and one makes those decisions based on certain criteria. One might be guided by one’s desires, one’s needs, one’s ambitions, one’s dreams, one’s principles, or one’s convictions (to name but a few
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Daily Reading: Matthew 23 and Psalm 23 Make no mistake, Jesus deeply loved each individual Pharisee, and He longed to gather them to Himself just as much as He longed to do so for the rest of Jerusalem (v.37). However, they were so filled with religious pride and arrogant self-sufficiency that they were blind to
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