The bigger picture
Thought for the week, by Peter Mill.
Endorsing Jesus
Thought for the week by Gavin Henderson
13th February 2022
Who do you say I am? What comes to mind when you imagine God? Perhaps you think about his nature: his love, mercy, and grace. You may see God in creation – in the beautiful harmony of the universe....
5th September 2018
Dei Judicium[I] “In prayer there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You can’t get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others.” Matthew 6:14-15...
3rd August 2018
Our Sins Are Blown Away “I have swept away your wrongdoing, as wind sweeps a cloud from the sky: I have cleared you of your sins, as the sun clears the morning mist. I have rescued you; come back...
14 June 2018
Do You Have A Cold Shoulder? “Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?’ Jesus answered, ‘I tell...
24th February 2018
Gilt and Guilt “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious! But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.” Proverbs 9:17-18...
15th November 2017
They Were Amazed “When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralysed man, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven.’ Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, ‘Why does...
26th October 2017
Hypocrisy “You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:5 (NIV) I recently heard a story about...
15th October 2017
All We Have to Say “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32 NIV UK “Love means never having to say you’re...
6th October 2017
The Names In The Book “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” Romans 3:23-24 (NKJV) If there...
18th July 2017
Forgiveness and Restoration “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Romans 8:1 (NKJV) “I’ve really blown it now! I was chosen for a good job. I know I...
9th June 2017
Forgiveness and the Mulberry Tree “He replied, ‘If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it will obey...
7th June 2017
There Are No Mistakes “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 (NIV) Recently, I heard a song with...
16th May 2017
Many Things To Say – Part 2 New Covenant Forgiveness “…For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins…” Matthew 26:28 (NKJV) We saw in a...
19th April 2017
Offenses Will Come “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone…but love your neighbour as yourself.” Leviticus 19:18 (NIV UK) Recently, someone told me a story about a couple who...
30th August 2016
God’s Forgettory “I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on towards the goal for the...
26th August 2016
Seven, But Not Counting… “If Cain’s revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech’s is seventy-sevenfold.” Genesis 4:24 (ESVUK) Does our spirit of vengeance or our spirit of forgiveness know...
6th August 2016
Seventy Times Seven! “Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.” Colossians 3:13...
10th July 2016
Do versus Done “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I...
25th June 2016
Hyperthymesia “The next day he saw Jesus coming towards him, and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!’” John 1:29 (ESVUK) According to a national newspaper (1)...
25th March 2016
Reconciled “Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you...
11th March 2016
Engage in God’s Forgiveness “…the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8 (KJ21) It was only in June of last year that Francis I, the 266th Pope of the Roman...
8th March 2016
A Time To Be Happy “A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 (NKJV) What are the keys that open the doors to real happiness? Most people want to...
1st March 2016
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word “And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32 (NKJV) Elton John is quoted as saying,...
19th February 2016
Payback? “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” Exodus 2:20 (ESVUK) After Moses killed an Egyptian and hid the body in the sand, Pharaoh “sought to...
23rd November 2015
Forgiving and Forgetting “‘And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.”’ Matthew 11:12 (NKJV) A while ago a much-loved minister confessed in a sermon that at one point in his...
27th October 2015
Your Invitation to the Kingdom of Light “…for his purpose is that all men should be saved and come to realise the truth.” 1 Timothy 2:4 (Phillips) The gospel is our invitation from God to live...
20th October 2015
Do You Have a Log in Your Eye? “Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the log in your own eye?” Matthew 7:3 (HCSB) It’s a characteristic of the human race to...
13th October 2015
Make Mercy A Way Of Life “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 (NKJV)...
22nd July 2015
Completing The Circuit Of Forgiveness “For if a man is in Christ he becomes a new person altogether—the past is finished and gone, everything has become fresh and new. All this is God’s doing,...
13th June 2015
Broken Relationships “It’s harder to make amends with an offended friend than to capture a fortified city. Arguments separate friends like a gate locked with iron bars.” Proverbs 18:19 (NLT)...
20th May 2015
Great is Thy Faithfulness “Jesus wept.” John 11:35 (NKJV) I cry at weddings, funerals, graduations, prize-givings and soppy movies. I don’t watch X factor and their ilk as, you guessed it, the...
9th April 2015
Our Indebtedness “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having cancelled the charge of our legal...
31st March 2015
Freedom is a Precious thing! “So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free!” John 8:36 (NLT) On the 1st of April 2003, Private Jessica Lynch was rescued from a hospital in Iraq by a Special...
4th October 2014
The Power Of Forgiveness “If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.” Psalm 130:3-4 (NKJV) One morning in 1987, a man...
7th September 2014
Service Users “When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, ‘Brothers, what shall we do?’ Peter replied, ‘Repent and he baptised, every...
28th August 2014
The Road to Forgiveness, Not Retaliation! “…eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” Leviticus 24:20 (The Message) In a recent newspaper I read a report about an Iranian mother who spared the life of...
17th August 2014
Birthday Candles “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathise with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us...
10th July 2014
A Word About Mercy “For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.” Psalm 86:5 (NKJV) The Hebrew word translated “mercy” has four...