God Is Calling For True Obedience.

Amos 5:6-6:14 ‘Seek the Lord and live’. ‘Seek good, not evil...’(5:6,14). Those who truly seek the Lord are to live a godly life. God sees right through hypocritical religion. He is not pleased with it: ‘I hate your show and pretence - your hypocrisy of ‘honouring’ Me with your religious feasts and solemn assemblies... Away …

From a long time ago … for today … on to the future …

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8). "The story of Jesus and his love - it's a story from a long time ago, and it's a story for today There are many people who wish that Jesus would just go away - but he doesn't go away. He keeps on …

We look away from ourselves to the Lord, and we say, ‘He saved us.’

OBADIAH 1-21  -  ‘The Kingdom will be the Lord’s’ (21). When God’s Kingdom comes, there will be both salvation - ‘The house of Jacob will possess its inheritance’ - and judgment - ‘There will be no survivors from the house of Esau’ (17-18). ‘Not by works but by Him who calls’ - This is the …

In the presence of my enemies, my cup overflows.

In ‘the Shepherd Psalm’ (Psalm 23), we read, in verse 5,: ‘You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows’. We are to feast on God’s Word. We are to be filled with God’s Spirit. The ‘table’ is the place of feasting. ‘Oil’ is a …

Looking beyond the lovely sunsets

In Luke 12:54-56, Jesus speaks to people who were good at weather forecasting, but they weren’t so good at understanding and living in the light of God’s Word._____  Lovely sunsets - They’ve  often brought to mind the well-known words: “A red sky at night is the shepherd’s delight. A red sky in the morning is …

But God…

"Once you were dead... but God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so very much, that even while were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead" (Ephesians 2:1,4-5). Our salvation is a miracle of God 's grace. In ourselves, there was no hope. …

The Word and the words (14): A light from heaven

"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness" (John 12:46). "As he (Saul of Tarsus) neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, 'Saul, Saul, why do you …

We must look to the Lord for salvation.

ISAIAH 36-42 36:1-37:20  –  Hezekiah is facing a very powerful enemy – ‘Sennacherib, king of Assyria’ (36:1). Hezekiah prays for deliverance – ‘O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand’. He prays for salvation – ‘O Lord our God, save us…’ (37:20). We face an even more powerful enemy – Satan, ‘the ruler of …

A better way of life – life in Christ

"God so loved the world (the people of the world)" (John 3:16); "Do not love the world (the ways of the world)" (1 John 2:15). "God so loved the world" - These words are a call to mission. We are to show the people of the world how much God loves them. We're to be …