Wednesday 22nd July 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 88:9-18 Romans 7:7-25 Hosea 6, Hosea 7 ROMANS 7 Romans 7 is one of the more controversial chapters in the New Testament. The first six verses are vital to grasp the full meaning of the chapter. It is a tale of two symbolic marriages, both of them involving us as sinful people. …
Tuesday 21st July 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 88:1-9 Romans 6:15-23, Romans 7:1-6 Hosea 3, Hosea 4, Hosea 5 ROMANS 6 – Additional Thought… One further thought: in this chapter (6) and in the previous chapter (5), Paul gives a big emphasis to the role of God’s grace in our salvation. Grace is always big enough to cover all our sin,…
Monday 20th July 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 87:1-7 Romans 6:1-14 Hosea 1, Hosea 2 ROMANS 6 Paul, the great apostolic teacher, anticipates his readers’ important questions – particularly when faced with this revolutionary gospel of grace and freedom that is on offer. Here’s one: “If grace gets larger when sin gets larger, perhaps we should sin even more!” This…
Sunday 19th July 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 17:15-24 Romans 5:12-21 Amos 8, Amos 9 ROMANS 5 Part 2 of the BibleProject Summary of the Book of Romans, Chapters 5-16 is here: https://bibleproject.com/videos/romans-5-16/ . Romans chapter 5 really takes up the thread from chapter 3 – meaning that chapter 4 was in ‘parentheses’. Paul uses this literary tool a great deal, particularly…
Saturday 18th July 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 86:11-17 Romans 4:16-25, Romans 5:1-11 Amos 6, Amos 7 AMOS 6, 7, 8 and 9 “Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plough the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness…”. God is now rebuking both Israel and Judah for their complacency,…
Friday 17th July 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 86:1-10 Romans 4:1-15 Amos 5 ROMANS 4 “What Would Abraham Do?” This was the perpetual thought that circulated around an orthodox Jew’s head as he went about his daily religious duties. Abraham, their forefather was, from their perspective, almost a ‘god’ and he carried enormous influence over the Jewish people, more two…
Thursday 16th July 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 85:8-13 Romans 3:9-31 Amos 3, Amos 4 ROMANS 3 Chapter 3 is the big one! Everyone is the same: all under the power of sin, all falling short of God’s glory and his standards of holiness. And, left to our own human devices, “…there is no-one who seeks God” (3:11). No-one will be…
Wednesday 15th July 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 17:5-14 Romans 2:17-29, Romans 3:1-8 Amos 1, Amos 2 AMOS 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 The BibleProject video summary / introduction to the Book of the Prophet Amos is here: https://bibleproject.com/videos/amos/ . Amos was not a ‘professional’ prophet, but a shepherd who prophesied ‘on the side’. He lived about 10 miles south of Jerusalem…
Tuesday 14th July 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 85:1-7 Romans 2:1-16 Jonah 1, Jonah 2, Jonah 3, Jonah 4 ROMANS 2 Chapter 2 speaks to different kinds of person: the self-congratulatory ‘moral’ person and the ‘religious’ person. Both are different examples of the sin of pride in action! The average quality newspaper journalist might be a typical example of Type 1: he or she appears to ooze…
Monday 13th July 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 84:8-12 Romans 1:18-32 2 Kings 24:8-20, 2 Kings 25 2 KINGS 22, 23, 24 and 25 It must have been a shock to Josiah: being made king of Judah at an age when most children today have just started junior school! The very last godly king of God’s people, at the age of…
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