Devotional
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Next Sunday we start a new sermon series in our local church. It is called “Encounters” and will focus on seven encounters Jesus had on the road to the Cross. Next Sunday will also be celebrated as Transfiguration Sunday in the vast majority of local churches around the world. We will centre our attention on…
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As Christians we are disciples of Jesus, and few passages of Scripture sum up Jesus’ desire for His disciples’ lives better than today’s reading from John 13:1-17, and 34-35. Having first demonstrated what love in action looks like by washing His disciples’ feet, Jesus makes His call on our lives perfectly clear in v.34-35 34 ‘A…
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Daily Reading: Matthew 28:16-20 The call to pour out the Living Water of the Spirit to make the world around us a more beautiful and fruitful place can never be fully obeyed without verbally bearing witness to the saving work of Jesus too. When Jesus was about to ascend to the Father, He gave His…
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We Christians are called to be a people who connect with God in passionate worship, connect to one another in love, and also connect to the world around us, pouring out the Living Water of the Spirit to make the world a more beautiful and fruitful place. Today we focus on this latter call to…
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Today we return to reflect on the call to connect to our fellow Christ-followers through deliberately cultivating genuine, sincere, loving relationships of mutual support, care and fellowship in a small group setting. Like the early Christians, we often struggle to do these relationships well. The apostle Paul wrote to the Philippian Christians to encourage them…
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This week we return to reflect on each of the three calls we have been considering. Today we ponder once more the call to worship God in spirit and in truth. Daily Reading: Revelation 7:9-17 The apostle John was in exile on the island of Patmos as punishment for preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.…
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Daily Reading: John 14:5-31 This week we’ve been exploring the call to connect to the world around us in order to pour out the Living Water we have received and to make this world a more beautiful, kind and just place. This call is, in many ways, based on the mysterious reality of the Christian…
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Daily Reading: Luke 4:14-21 Returning from a mission which manifested the power of the Holy Spirit operating in miracles and authoritative teaching, Jesus attended the synagogue in Nazareth and laid out His understanding of the mission God the Father had sent Him on by reading from Isaiah 61:1-2. Luke records the words He read as…
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Daily Reading: Psalm 72 “May he be like rain falling on a mown field, like showers watering the earth.In his days may the righteous flourish and prosperity abound till the moon is no more.” ~ Psalm 72:6-7 Psalm 72 is an ancient Israelite prayer for the king. In it, the LORD is asked to pour out blessings…
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Daily Reading: Amos 5 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! (Amos 5:23-24) As we consider our call to be a blessing, the Word of the Lord brings us back yet again to the image…
