Friday 1st May 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 54:1-7 John 2:1-25 Joshua 19, Joshua 20, Joshua 21:1-19 JOHN 2 John calls miracles ‘signs’. His gospel has the least number of miracles recorded – only eight – but he certainly chose to include the most spectacular! They are ‘signs’ because they point towards the true nature of the Son of Man, who…
Thursday 30th April 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 10:31-32, Proverbs 11:1-0 John 1:29-51 Joshua 17, Joshua 18 JOSHUA 16, 17, and 18 Judah’s allotment of land had now been sorted, and it was the turn of Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, to receive theirs next. Some of the time they were known collectively as ‘Joseph’ still. It is interesting that…
Wednesday 29th April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 53:1-6 John 1:1-28 Joshua 15, Joshua 16 JOHN 1 John’s Gospel was written by ‘The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved’ – the Apostle John. Probably penned in the late 80’s or early 90’s AD, it has the hallmark of an intimate eyewitness to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Clement of Alexandria held…
Tuesday 28th April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 52:1-9 Luke 24:36-53 Joshua 13, Joshua 14 JOSHUA 12, 13, 14, and 15 It is good to keep a record of your past victories. They are a reminder of the favour and power of God in your life – and an incentive to keep going in the future when things get tough. The…
Monday 27th April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 51:10-19 Luke 24:1-35 Joshua 11, Joshua 12 LUKE 24 The Apostolic Church of the first three Centuries did not celebrate Christmas or Easter. These modern-day festivals only came into official existence in 350 AD and 325 AD respectively. However, the early church did better than that: they lived in the power of the…
Sunday 26th April 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 10:21-30 Luke 23:26-56 Joshua 9:16-27, Joshua 10 JOSHUA 9, 10 and 11 Big Mistake Number Two makes an appearance today! Yesterday we read how Israel disobeyed the Lord by stealing some of the plunder from Jericho that was rightly all God’s. Today, the error was more subtle but had longer-lasting consequences. You probably remember…
Saturday 25th April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 51:1-9 Luke 22:63-71, Luke 23:1-25 Joshua 8, Joshua 9:1-15 LUKE 23 Jesus, having declared himself to be the Messiah, the Son of God, had provided more evidence of blasphemy to the ‘salivating’ Sanhedrin than they could have hoped for in their wildest dreams! The man actually said that he was God! The big problem…
Friday 24th April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 50:16-23 Luke 22:39-62 Joshua 5:13-15, Joshua 6, Joshua 7 LUKE 22 In all three other gospels, we have the account of Jesus being anointed by Mary of Bethany, as Jesus reclined at table. In Luke, there is no such story. This is because a similar-sounding, but completely different, account in Luke 7:36-50 took…
Thursday 23rd April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 50:1-15 Luke 22:1-38 Joshua 3, Joshua 4, Joshua 5:1-12 JOSHUA 1, 2, 3 and 4 In our Old Testament reading, we are beginning a new Book: Joshua. From an action point of view, it largely continues the stories in Numbers; from a teaching point of view, it expands on Deuteronomy. Most conservative scholars…
Wednesday 22nd April 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 10:11-20 Luke 21:5-38 Joshua 1, Joshua 2 LUKE 21 By 18th January 2013, Bill Gates and his wife had already given away at least 28 billion dollars of their fortune to charitable work worldwide; they intend to give away at least 95 percent of all their money eventually. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/bill-gates/9812672/Bill-Gates-interview-I-have-no-use-for-money.-This-is-Gods-work.html Warren Buffett, one of the…
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