Devotional
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Daily Readings: Micah 5:2-4 and Luke 2:1-7 The great Feast of the Incarnation will soon be marked in enormous, gilded cathedrals all over the world. In our own homes it is bound to be marked with beautiful decorations, the exchange of gifts and much literal feasting too. But that’s a world away from the circumstances…
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Daily Reading: Matthew 1:18-25 As Christmas creeps closer, we continue to reflect on the Person of our Coming Saviour. As with yesterday’s devotion, please take some time to read through the passage slowly. Prayerfully consider what the angel’s message to Joseph reveals to you about this Jesus, whose birth we will celebrate next Sunday. Then,…
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Daily Readings: Isaiah 7:1-14 and Luke 1:26-38 It’s the final week of preparation for Christmas, so our attention now shifts to the events surrounding the birth of our Saviour. Luke 1:26-38 is the record of Mary receiving the news that God had so highly favoured her that she was to become the birth-mother of the…
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Daily Readings: Isaiah 60:1-7 and Psalm 139:7-12 In Isaiah 59:2 God’s people were warned that their sins had separated them from God, and v.9 describes that separation like this: “We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.” To be seperated from God is to be isolated from the…
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Daily Readings: Psalm 89:1-8 and Jeremiah 23:1-8 In the books of the Old Testament Prophets, promises were sometimes given which had an immediate application in Israel’s history, but which also served as a sign of what God would eventually bring to pass through the Messiah. Jeremiah 23:5-6 is one such prophecy. Read in the context…
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Daily Readings: Psalm 90 and Micah 5:1-4 Micah wrote at a time when God was executing judgment against His people for their many sins and rebellions. He was humbling them so that they would turn to Him and be saved. This humbling came about in history through their subjection to foreign rulers, which repeated itself…
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Daily Readings: Psalm 23 and Isaiah 11:1-9 On our journey towards the coming of God’s Anointed Saviour King, Isaiah 11 prophesies that He will be from the royal line of David. Despite this line having been cut off by the exile and (later) by the political interference of Israel’s many oppressors, God promised that He…
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These daily posts (and their author) are back from three weeks of rest and refreshing. With just two weeks left until Christmas, it feels like a good time to turn our attention each day to one of the magnificent promises of our Saviour’s arrival. Daily Readings: Psalm 27 and Isaiah 9:1-7 In Isaiah’s day, and…
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These daily posts (and their author) will be on a 3-week break. We will resume on Monday 12 December. Stay strong in the Lord, and in His mighty power! (Ephesians 6:10) Daily Readings: Psalm 65 and Proverbs 26 “Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are.” Be…
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Daily Readings: Psalm 64 and Proverbs 25 Proverbs 25-29 is an extra collection of Solomon’s Proverbs which was compiled in the days of the righteous King Hezekiah of Judah, some 270 years after Solomon. As is the case with the rest of the book, each of these proverbs is worthy of careful consideration. One which…
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