REPENTANCE
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 5 and Psalm 117 In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul warns the Church about its tolerance of a member who was known to be living in a flagrant, unrepentant, incestuous sexual relationship with his step-mother. In allowing this man to continue as normal in the fellowship of the Church despite his unrepentant
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Daily Readings: Romans 6 and Psalm 102 In Romans 6 Paul addresses questions that might be raised about the place of sin in a believer’s life. Using two main images, Paul makes his point: Sin should never be willingly entertained or warmly welcomed in the life of a believer; it should be strongly rejected and
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Daily Readings: Romans 3 and Psalm 99 On Monday, Romans 1 showed us that right at the heart of the Gospel is the message that all human beings (regardless of whether we are Jews or Gentiles) are equally in need of salvation, because we all stand guilty before God. Today we discover that right the
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Daily Readings: Romans 2 and Psalm 98 The way the New Living Translation renders v.4 is so beautiful: 4 Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin? God’s heart and His
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Daily Readings: Acts 11 and Psalm 79 Just as it had been for Peter, it was very hard for the first Jewish believers to understand that Jesus had broken down the dividing wall between God and all humanity. It was not only Jews (the chosen people of the First Covenant) who could come home to
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Daily Readings: Acts 10 and Psalm 78 God told Ananias that Saul was His chosen ambassador to the Gentiles (Acts 9:15) but in Acts 10 He laid the foundation for Saul’s extensive missionary work through Simon Peter. Knowing how difficult it was going to be for the Jewish apostles and all the Jewish followers to
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Daily Readings: Mark 2 and Psalm 53 We saw yesterday how the Gospel of Mark emphasizes that Jesus is the Son of Man who came to give His life to liberate people from the murderous power of sin. He came to minister the power of God to forgive us, cleanse us and liberate us from the life-destroying
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Welcome to the Gospel of Mark. It is believed to be the very first Gospel written and to have been penned by John Mark (see Acts 12:25, Acts 15:36-41, 2 Timothy 4:11, and 1 Peter 5:13). Written on the basis of Peter’s eye-witness testimony, the Gospel according to Mark emphasizes that Jesus is the Son
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Daily Reading: Matthew 23 and Psalm 23 Make no mistake, Jesus deeply loved each individual Pharisee, and He longed to gather them to Himself just as much as He longed to do so for the rest of Jerusalem (v.37). However, they were so filled with religious pride and arrogant self-sufficiency that they were blind to
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Daily Readings: Matthew 3 and Psalm 3 Today is Ash Wednesday – the day of deliberate confession and repentance that marks the start of the season of Lent. How appropriate then that we come to Matthew 3 today. In those days John the Baptist came to the Judean wilderness and began preaching. His message was, “Repent
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