Aldous Leonard Huxley(1894-1963)

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In his best known book - the early novel, Brave New World (1932) - he warned against the danger of a possible future society, in the name of science and technology, depriving individuals of their freedom. He returned to this theme in Brave New World Revisited (1958), a set of essays on real-life problems, in …

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Praying Through God’s Word: Matthew’s Gospel

Matthew 1:1-17 Lord, we’ve only just begun – to experience Your love and enjoy Your blessing. We’ve started out on the journey of faith – but we haven’t reached our destination. We’re still travelling. We dare not stand still. We must keep on going forward – with You and for You. Sometimes, we can forget […]

Keep on believing that God hears and answers prayer.

2 Samuel 21:1-22:7 – There’s no two ways about it. God’s people were getting it rough. There seemed to be so many problems. Were they to give up hope? – Not a bit of it! Read verse 14 – ‘After that God heeded supplications for the land’. What happened when God heard and answered the […]

Show us, Lord, what we really are – without You.

Deuteronomy 23:1-25 Show us, Lord, what we really are – without You. Make us, more truly and more fully, what You want us to become – by Your saving grace. Fill us with Your holiness – and fill us with Your love. You’ve lifted us out of our sin and into Your salvation. This is […]

Praying Through God’s Word: Mark’s Gospel

Mark 1:1-20 Lord, we thank You that Your Son, Jesus, has triumphed over Your enemy, Satan. To us, Satan can seem so strong. Help us to remember that Jesus is stronger than Satan. With Jesus as our Saviour, we shall triumph over Satan, our enemy. Mark 1:21-2:12 Lord, help us never to think that prayer […]

Keep On Praying. Keep On Believing. — Learning From God’s Word

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2 Samuel 21:1-22:7There’s no two ways about it. God’s people were getting it rough. There seemed to be so many problems. Were they to give up hope? – Not a bit of it! Read verse 14 – ‘After that God heeded supplications for the land’. What happened when God heard and…

Taking a look at the Old Testament: Job

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“I know that my Redeemer lives” (Job 19:25). We read these words of faith and hope, and our thoughts move forward, from Job to Jesus. As we think of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, we recall the words of the angelic messenger: “Why do you seek the…

God wants to bless us. He wants us to seek His blessing.

Psalm 81:1-87:7 Psalm 81:1-16 – God calls us to worship Him with joy – ‘Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!’(Psalm 81:1). He has blessed us with His salvation – ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt’. He will continue […]

Taking a look at the Old Testament: Esther

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“Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14). Rev George Philip preached a series of sermons on 1 Samuel 1-7, with the title, “For such a time as this.” This title is taken from this verse in the book of…

Taking a look at the Old Testament: 1 and 2 Chronicles

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“His throne will be established forever” (1 Chronicles 17:14). A king or queen can have a short reign or a long reign. Only God can have a “forever” reign. Here’s something we should never forget – it’s the Lord who on the throne that really matters, the…

Taking a look at the Old Testament: 1 and 2 Kings

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“Who is able to govern this great people of yours?” (1 Kings 3:9). The king was called to be more than a political leader. He was called to be a spiritual leader. To be a spiritual leader, he needed to remember that the people of Israel were…

When you’re feeling down, let God’s love lift you up! — Learning From God’s Word

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Pray to the Lord, and work for him.

Again, the combination of prayer and work is seen in Nehemiah: “I devoted myself to the work on this wall” (Nehemiah 5:16), “I prayed, ‘Now, strengthen my hands.’” (Nehemiah 6:9). “So the wall was completed … this work had been done with the help of our God” (Nehemiah 6:15-16). We may contrast the rebuilding of […]

Deuteronomy 8:1-9:21

The ‘wilderness’ was a place of ‘testing’. God was ‘disciplining’ His people. He was teaching them to ‘walk in His ways’ (2,5-6). In the ‘wilderness’, we must remember this: ‘man does not live by bread alone…man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord’ (3). Everything that proceeds out of the […]

Matthew 2:1-6

Matthew 2:1-6 We think of this chapter as ‘the story of the wise men’. It is not so much about the wise men. It is about Jesus. He is the central character. We are not told how many wise men there were. The word, ‘three’ does not appear (1). We are not told their names. […]

Worship the Lord with reverence – and joy.

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I’ll not forget you.

“The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.’ (Isaiah 49:14). Sometimes, this is what we say to ourselves. “I will not forget you!” (Isaiah 49:15). Always, this is what the Lord says to us. I’ll Not Forget You Bryan Duncan Sarah’s waiting in a crown of silver hair Maternal heart still aching A promised ray […]

Beyond Peter’s failure

Acts 4:1-5:11 Peter preached Christ with great boldness: ‘There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved’ (12). This boldness came from the Holy Spirit. Peter was ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’ (4:8). Don’t say, ‘I’m no Peter’. Peter failed […]

Matthew 1:18-25

Matthew 1:18-25 The birth of Christ is a fulfilment of prophecy: ‘The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a Son, and they will call Him Immanuel’ (23; Isaiah 7:14). Christ is ‘God with us’. He was born through the power of the Holy Spirit (18,20). He is still ‘God with us’, […]

Numbers 29:12-31:24; Luke 8:19-39; Psalm 39:1-13

Numbers 31:22-24 emphasizes the importance of cleansing. The healing of the demon-possessed man, in Luke 8, emphasizes the power of Christ to cleanse even the most sinful of people. To be cleansed from sin involves an act of the will on our part – “I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin” […]

Hearing, Rejoicing, Worshipping — Learning From God’s Word

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