Daily Reading: John 8:1-11 ” …neither do I condemn you,’ Jesus declared. ‘Go now and leave your life of sin.‘ (v.11) This account from Jesus’ ministry is a wondrous moment for each of us, for in one way or another we have all fallen short of God’s glory. This event shows us that even when

Read more →

Daily Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 This passage is another sobering reminder that every Christian’s call to cooperate with the Holy Spirit’s work of sanctification (i.e. making us more like Jesus in holiness) extends very expressly to the area of our sexuality and sexual activity. The statement, “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified,”

Read more →

Daily Reading: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your bodies. In today’s reading we really get down to the heart of

Read more →

Daily Reading: Matthew 5:27-30 Jesus started this radical, in-your-face teaching with the words, “You have heard that it was said …” Throughout Matthew 5, these words indicate that Jesus was taking on the rabbinical oral traditions that had grown up around the Law of Moses. Often, Jesus targeted the fact that they had added something

Read more →