Devotional
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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: Galatians 1 and Psalm 132 The letter to the Galatians is one of the oldest New Testament Books. Paul had visited the region of Galatia on his first missionary journey in about 46-48AD (see Acts 13-14) and probably wrote this follow-up letter during the period immediately after that, in around 50AD (see Acts…
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Daily Readings: 2 Corinthians 13 and Psalm 131 If you are a regular worshipper in a denominational church, I am almost certain you would be able to recite 2 Corinthians 13:14 without any trouble at all: 14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy…
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Daily Readings: 2 Corinthians 12 and Psalm 130 It’s tempting to think that a man who was so favoured by the Lord as to have been granted a vision of the heavenly Paradise would not experience suffering. Surely God’s favour rested on him, and he would sail through life? Not so for Paul. It’s almost…
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Daily Readings: 2 Corinthians 11 and Psalm 129 The intensity of Paul’s writing in 2 Corinthians 11 was born of a deep love for the Corinthians (v.11) and a clear sense of his responsibility to disciple them in such a way as to prepare them to meet Christ (v.2). The presence of false ‘apostles’ in…
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Daily Readings: 2 Corinthians 10 and Psalm 128 There were those in Corinth who publicly maligned and opposed Paul’s ministry, saying all sorts of negative things about him. One derogatory ‘accusation’ against Paul was that he was unimpressive and timid in person. They claimed that while his letters were highly impressive, face-to-face he just seemed…
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Daily Readings: 2 Corinthians 9 and Psalm 127 2 Corinthians 9 promises us that when Christians give willingly, freely, joyfully and generously (v.6-7), God uses that generosity to produce many good outcomes. Using an agricultural metaphor, the apostle Paul explains that just as generously sowing seed in the ground later produces a generous crop, so…
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Daily Readdings: 2 Corinthians 8 and Psalm 126 In 2 Corinthians 8, Paul wrote again about the offering he was organising for the wellbeing of the famine-stricken Jerusalem Church. He had written to them about this in 1 Corinthians 16, and the Church had responded with great willingness to set aside money regularly and sacrificially…
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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…
