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Here in 1 Timothy 4, we are given reminders of what it means to be a good servant of Christ. We have the distinguished figures of Paul and Timothy here before us, but we all are meant to be servants...

In the ninth chapter of John’s gospel Jesus healed a man who had been born blind. It was a wonderful healing, enabling this man to see physically for the first time in his life. I truly can’t...

Were you ever afraid of the dark? Many of us have had this fear at some point. Oftentimes, the darkness conjures our nightmares, causing us to see things that are not there. Generally speaking,...

Praying in accordance with the Father’s will is of paramount importance. Jesus, the very Son of God, declares that he will not do anything that is contrary to his Father’s will: “For I...

One of the most profound sections in the whole of scripture is Colossians 1:11-20, where the apostle Paul powerfully sets before us the divinity, majesty, and pre-eminence of the Lord Jesus Christ, in...

Most of us live crowded, noise-filled, busy lives. What device consumes a great portion of our time? Ding, ding, ding. You’re correct if you answered mobile phones. Ninety-eight percent of adults in...

We read in Numbers 7:89 that, ‘Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark’s cover—the place...

In the fourth chapter of John’s gospel, he tells us about a Samaritan woman who met Jesus at a well. They talked about water, worship, truth, and ultimately her life. Then suddenly we read:...

Have you ever been assigned ‘busy work?’ I despise doing ‘busy work’ It’s the type of work that doesn’t have a purpose except to keep you…well…busy. Sometimes this happens on a job...

March is a time when we may spend more time reflecting on Jesus’s sacrifice for us. And many use it as a time for self-assessment, considering Paul’s advice to us to, ‘Examine yourselves’....

An oft-cited and favourite verse in the Old Testament is found in the seldom-read book of Second Kings. Whether or not you’ve read the book of Kings, or if it’s been a long time, you are...

I was pleasantly surprised when a picture of a group of pelicans came up on my computer screen. They have always given me a sense of calm and peace; a feeling of God’s presence. As I gazed...

On three occasions in John’s gospel, Jesus uses the phrase ‘lifted up’. The first occasion is in the header scripture where he alludes to Moses putting a bronze snake on a pole during Israel’s...

There is a popular old hymn called ‘Count Your Blessings’. The chorus simply says: Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings, see what God hath done.  A friend of mine...

Our header scripture provides a hope-filled vision of an innumerable multitude of people from all corners of the world standing before God’s throne in worship. This mosaic vision represents God’s...

You may have noticed some Christian authors and speakers are using the phrase ‘invite God’ to do this or that. One in particular tells us we should invite God into our prayer time. I find it...

What a wonderful thing communication can be, but as James mentioned here in chapter 3, the tongue can be a very wicked and uncontrolled thing. I would like to say that it must have been an issue...

Oscar Wilde once quipped, ‘I can resist anything but temptation.’ Thankfully this was not true of Jesus who was ‘…tempted in every way, just as we are – yet he did not sin.’...

Journeys of transformation often begin in a place of testing. The wilderness is not a place of punishment. It is a place of preparation. It is where noise fades, distractions fall away, and truth...

When the tires on your car get wonky, you take it to a shop and get them aligned. Our spines can become misaligned, and some people rely on a chiropractor to get them back where they should be. All...

‘There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met.’ This is one of my favourite quotes. So, when my daughter and I saw it written on the outside of a restaurant in Dublin, Ireland,...

One of my forms of exercise is to take walks with the dogs and an occasional cat or two. I spend a lot of time just trying to reign them in. Now that it is winter here, the fields are brown and...

Every human being knows that unless Jesus returns first, death is coming. It’s a topic that we don’t like to talk about, yet the Apostle Paul openly declares that it is the last enemy to be...

Some moments change everything. They lift the veil, revealing what has always been true but unseen. The mountain of transfiguration was one of those moments. Jesus led Peter, James, and John up a high...

By the time the apostle Paul was writing his first letter to his young protégé, Timothy, he was advanced in years and Timothy, who had been the apostle’s right-hand man for over two decades, was...

The phrase ‘trust everyone but cut the cards’ has been around for a long time, possibly even since the 19th century. Who knows, there may have been some version of it as early as Cain and Abel. It...

As we focus on the servant of the Lord spoken of here in Isaiah 42, we come to realise that it is speaking of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, who as the Son of God and maker of the heaven and...

In the Ancient Near East and Greco-Roman world salt held significant economic, social, and symbolic value. It was commonly used for: Preservation – Salt prevented decay in food, especially meat and...

There is a saying that goes, ‘Better well done than well said.’ This phrase wisely reminds us that words can sometimes be empty, and our actions often say much more about who we are. As believers,...