Wednesday 29th March 2023
NUMBERS 26 and 27 The focus shifts back to the Old Testament: Israel was told by The Lord to organise another census, following the one that occurred 38 years previously. There were two main reasons for this: (a) to demonstrate to all parties that every one of those Israelites previously 20 years old or older…
Tuesday 28th March 2023
NUMBERS 23, 24 and 25 You would imagine that a man who was really a false prophet, a fraud and a mercenary would be put off his mission by being rebuked by his donkey and nearly killed by the Angel of the Lord. He certainly offered to turn around – since he was scared for…
Monday 27th March 2023
LUKE 7 In this episode, an honest fighting man, in charge of up to one hundred men, seems to grasp the ways of God more quickly than some of God’s own people! Whereas they approach Jesus and ask him to help the centurion on the grounds that “…he has built our synagogue” (v5), he realises…
Sunday 26th March 2023
LUKE 6 With the previous thought of ‘new wineskins’ still an echo in our minds, the first real test of this comes in the form of ‘The Sabbath’. What happens when the ‘wave’ of new life rolls onto the ‘rock’ of Jewish tradition? Surprisingly, the rock is shattered! Jesus ‘harvested’ grain on the Sabbath and…
Saturday 25th March 2023
NUMBERS 19, 20 and 21 The water of cleansing in Numbers 19 was unusual. The animal killed was not sacrificed, but slaughtered outside the camp, rather than at the altar. It was a female, not a bull, and every part of it was burnt, including the blood and the offal. It was only needed to…
Friday 24th March 2023
NUMBERS 17 and 18 As a final demonstration of power, in support of Moses’ and Aaron’s authority, the Lord turned Aaron’s dead staff into a living tree, producing fruit. Ultimately, true leadership in God’s church is confirmed by its fruitfulness and effectiveness in producing growth. Whether you are in new covenant leadership, or one of…
Thursday 23rd March 2023
LUKE 5 A complete stranger appears at your place of work, performs a very impressive miracle, and then asks you to leave your job, your possessions, and your family – and to follow him wherever he goes. Is that plausible? Is it likely? Is it even a wise course of action? Those of us who…
Wednesday 22nd March 2023
NUMBERS 14 Democracy only takes you so far! Many times it actually holds you back. The problem that Moses created by choosing a representative from each tribe to explore the land was that when ten of them rejected the will of God, all their tribal relatives ‘voted’ with them and that meant that most of…
Tuesday 21st March 2023
LUKE 4 “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread”. (v3). “The Devil led him to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world…’I will give you all their authority and splendour… if you worship me, it will be yours’”. (vv6-7). “If you…
Monday 20th March 2023
LUKE 3 Read the first couple of verses… For the third chapter in a row, Luke wants to anchor these key events firmly in a historical context and so he links the lives of seven famous people of the time to the emergence of John the Baptist. As a result, historians of today have a…
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