‘The Word’ – what does the Bible mean by this? It is not just any particular word, written or spoken by people, and it isn’t Microsoft Word either. ‘The Word’ also isn’t an object or a sound. The question really is not what, but who. Who is the Word? The Word is a person. This…
Tag: Grace
Hosea 14
Section 15c: We come to a sublime and gracious ending that fully displays the depth of the Lord’s love. There is a sinner’s prayer followed by blessings that will only be fully realised for Israel in the millennial reign of Christ.
2 Kings 14,15 – Historical Context
Today we consider a historical section where the Prophet Jonah is mentioned, and consider some lessons from how the LORD God deals with both nations of Israel and Judah and their respective kings. I didn’t have the dates of the kings’ reigns when I recorded the podcast, but you can see them below on this…
Jonah 4
We conclude our reading through the Prophecy of Jonah today and learn some precious lessons concerning our God and our approach unto Him in prayer. Tomorrow we will move into the Prophecy of Nahum.
A Blind Man Seeks Help
A comparison of the Surah 80:1 (Qur’an) with Mark 10:46-52 (Bible), and what each passage teaches us about Muhammad and Jesus Christ respectively.
Good News for Sinners
‘This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.’ 1 Timothy 1:15 [NKJV] I Am A Sinner Admit this, and this verse of Scripture holds good news for you. Deny it knowingly, and Jesus Christ cannot help you. However,…
Can a Christian lose their salvation?
I want to begin in 1 John. In chapter 1:5, John begins with an absolute: ‘God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all’. Verse 6 logically follows: ‘if we say’ (in other words, if we profess to be a Christian), but ‘walk in darkness’ – this is not a slip or a…
The God of Grace – Num 11
There is a burden you carry, a responsibility you bear … It is at this point that God says: “I will come down”
Psalms for Troubled Times – Psalm 114
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? We concluded psalm 113 with the thought of the LORD’s humility ‘to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth’ (v6), and to lift ‘the needy out of the dunghill’ (v7). In this psalm we are given the specific example of how the…
Psalms for Troubled Times – Psalm 113
Who is like unto the LORD our God? This psalm divides neatly into two sections: the glory of the LORD (v1-5) and the grace of the LORD (v6-9). The two key words found in verses 5 and 6 respectively identify the theme of each half of the psalm: ‘high’ and ‘humble’. High The first thing…
Psalms for Troubled Times – Psalm 112
The Blessed Man Renewed Today’s psalm picks up from where we left off yesterday, and issuing a ‘hallelujah’, tells us: ‘Blessed (Asher) is the man who fears the LORD, and in His commandments (bemiswotaw) greatly delights’ The phrase ‘blessed is the man’ is a key phrase in the Psalms as a whole. You’ll remember that…
Psalms for Troubled Times – Psalm 110c
The Throne of Grace We continue our meditations of this most important psalm, and having considered the pre-eminence and power of Christ the King, ‘set at the right hand’ (v1), we now turn to the High Priestly Ministry of our Lord Jesus, as we muse upon ‘the right hand’ being the place of prayer. A…
Forward in Hope 