JESUS THE MESSIAH
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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 12-14 and Psalm 59 John says that he saw a “great sign”, and that sign appears to continue throughout Revelation 12-14. Taking our devotional, birds’ eye view of that sign is actually a great way to get to the heart of the meaning for us today. Looking too closely and trying to
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Daily Readings: 1 John 1-2 and Psalm 48 The letters of 1-3 John were written by the apostle John, the son of Zebedee and brother of James, around about 90AD. At the time he lived in Ephesus and probably wrote it as a letter to be circulated among the churches of that region. Having known
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Daily Readings: Luke 2 and Psalm 18 The history of the world shifted on what would later be written and sung about as that “Holy Night” – the night of Jesus’ birth. The Son of God had been conceived and carried to term in a womb He had created. He had survived on the amniotic
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Daily Readings: Galatians 3 and Psalm 134 26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. It’s wonderful to realise that God has freely adopted us into his Family as beloved children, not on the basis of our level
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Daily Readings: Galatians 2 and Psalm 133 In today’s chapter, Galatians 2, we come across one of the most central descriptions of the Christian life: 16 … (We) know that a person is not justified by the works of the Law, but by faith in Jesus Christ… 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 2 and Psalm 114 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that
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Daily Readings: Romans 11 and Psalm 107 Personally, I find it more edifying to consider Romans 11 from a birds-eye point of view than to place it under a magnifying glass. Paul’s arguments might feel very convoluted to us, but his two over-riding concerns in this chapter are to encourage Jewish Christians in Rome not
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Daily Readings: Mark 8 and Psalm 59 15 ‘Be careful,’ Jesus warned them. ‘Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.’ In rabbinical writings “yeast” was symbolic of the intentions of the human heart. So, although the disciples misunderstood what Jesus was trying to say, we should apply our minds to it. What common
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