Devotional
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Daily Readings: Revelation 6-7 and Psalm 56 In Revelation 6-7, John witnesses the Lamb of God unsealing the scroll containing the will of God for the progression of the End of the Age (perhaps better thought of as the Age of the End); that is, the whole period between Jesus’ ascension to the throne and…
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Daily Readings: Psalm 55 and Revelation 4-5 In Revelation 4-5 the Holy Spirit opens John’s spiritual eyes to a vision of the heavenly throne room. While here “below”, God’s people (in the seven churches and beyond) continue to pursue His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven, there “above”, God rules and reigns over…
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Daily Readings: Revelation 2-3 and Psalm 54 In Revelation 2-3, the glorious, risen and ascended Lord Jesus communicates His words of encouragement, correction, rebuke and exhortation to the seven churches under John’s apostolic leadership. His words were for them, but they are also for us today. Scanning the seven communiques in chapters 2-3, we find…
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Daily Readings: Revelation 1 and Psalm 53 If you didn’t read yesterday afternoon’s post, please take a look at it and orientate yourself to the Book of The Revelation. In Revelation 1, the apostle John was in exile on the Mediterranean island of Patmos – sent there as a punishment for his faithful witness to…
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Tomorrow our Bible Reading Plan takes us into the final book of the Bible: “The Revelation”. This post is, to some extent an important disclaimer. My daily posts are devotional by nature. They are aimed at drawing out a life-application lesson from the sacred text of Scripture. To attempt to do that in the Book…
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Daily Readings: Jude 1 and Psalm 51 As the brother of James, Jude was also the brother of Jesus. Here, however, he writes that he is James’ brother and a bond-servant of Jesus. He wants his readers to know that flesh and blood relationship to the incarnate Jesus is not what set him (Jude) apart…
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Daily Readings: 2 John, 3 John and Psalm 51 Writing during a time of severe persecution, the apostle John did not name himself or the congregation to which he wrote. Instead he cryptically referred to himself as “the elder”, to the local church as “the lady”, and to the members as “her children”. When he…
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Daily Readings: 1 John 5 and Psalm 50 In chapter 5, John writes profoundly about the eternal life that God gives to all those who believe in His Son, Jesus Christ. He writes that through our faith in Jesus Christ we are empowered to overcome the temptations of this world and to live lives of…
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Daily Readings: 1 John 3-4 and Psalm 49 1 John 3-4 is intense and jam-packed with memorable statements about the Lord, His love for us, and the eternal life He longs to pour into us. What follows is my attempt to summarise its main argument. The real, true, deep, rich, full and abundant life for…
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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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