Devotional
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Daily Readings: Joshua 8 and Psalm 8 Lord, give us the same grace You gave to Joshua and Your people, to learn the lessons of our past mistakes and press forward, trusting that Your way is the best way for us. This day, help us to leave our past behind us, let yesterday go, and…
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Daily Readings: Joshua 7 and Psalm 7 Our reading from Joshua 7 makes me want to sit silently in stunned awe of how serious the holiness of God is. We don’t like to think about it, but Psalm 7 confirms that “God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day.” (v.11)…
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Daily Readings: Joshua 6 and Psalm 6 Let’s remember that in Joshua 5 we saw that the true battle was going to be fought by the “army of heaven”, while Joshua and the Israelites would play only a supportive role – in a sense participating as junior partners in God’s greater work. Today you and…
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Daily Readings: Joshua 5 and Psalm 5 Having rededicated the people of God and celebrated the Passover, the time had almost come for Joshua to lead the invasion of the Promised Land. But then, as he is out on the plains contemplating the future invasion, we read that Joshua saw a warrior on the plains,…
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Daily Readings: Joshua 4 and Psalm 4 God my Saviour, You have done such wonderful things in my life: protecting me, saving me, forgiving me, healing me, providing for me. Yet, I so easily forget Your goodness, and all too often I fail to bear witness to others. Grant me the grace today to be…
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Daily Readings: Joshua 3 and Psalm 3 Lord, deliverance comes from You, of this I have no doubt. Yet very often You give me a role to play in that deliverance. The priests were instructed to lift up the Ark of the Covenant and carry it into a raging river in flood on the basis…
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Daily Readings: Joshua 2 and Psalm 2 Lord, Your kindness and love were revealed to us perfectly in Jesus. Yet today we also see Your kindness on display in the brave choices of His ancestor Rahab (Matthew 1:5). Help me today to live with brave kindness, seeking to do practical good to others even when…
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Daily Readings: Joshua 1 and Psalm 1 Holy Spirit, as I stand at the doorstep of this new year of my life, with unexplored possibilities ahead of me, help me to be strong and courageous and to venture boldly into every challenge You place before me. Use me to take new spiritual ground for Your…
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Thought I’d share the very creative message brought by our Youth & Young Adults pastor, Benjamin Friedemann for the first Sunday of our Epiphany Series called ‘Living with Joy’. The theme of the Sermon is “Led to Joy” https://fb.watch/ahi9rG9tY1/
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Whether 2021 has been the best of times or the worst of times, we can rest assured that “our times are in His hands.” (Psalm 31:15) The LORD our God and King has been present in every nanosecond of our lives this year. He has been lovingly at work to help, protect, strengthen, guide, encourage,…