Saturday 19th September 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 108:6-13 Galatians 4:21-31, Galatians 5:1-6 Isaiah 44:24-28, Isaiah 45, Isaiah 46 ISAIAH 44, 45, 46, 47 and 48 “I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams”. (Isaiah 44:3-4). This was spoken to a down-trodden captive nation…
Friday 18th September 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 108:1-5 Galatians 3:26-29, Galatians 4:1-20 Isaiah 43, Isaiah 44:1-23 GALATIANS 4 “Are you still a slave or are you now free?” Paul asks this question of the Galatian believers, and the Holy Spirit asks the same one of us today. Up until then, the most god-fearing person in the world was an observant Jew,…
Thursday 17th September 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 22:28-29, Proverbs 23:1-9 Galatians 3:10-25 Isaiah 41, Isaiah 42 GALATIANS 3 “Believe the gospel and receive the Holy Spirit”. “Believe the gospel and see miracles worked among us”. That is the message that Paul sends to his churches and to us. Perhaps our problem today is not that we expect to have to earn the…
Wednesday 16th September 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 107:33-43 Galatians 2:11-21, Galatians 3:1-9 Isaiah 38, Isaiah 39, Isaiah 40 ISAIAH 38, 39, and 40 What would you do if you were told – during an illness – by God’ prophet that you would soon die; that there was no chance of you recovering? Would you just accept it? Hezekiah was distraught; he…
Tuesday 15th September 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 107:23-32 Galatians 2:1-10 Isaiah 36, Isaiah 37 GALATIANS 2 “Horses for courses” – as Paul sort-of said. He was recognised as the chief apostle to the Gentiles (non-Jews), whilst Peter was the chief apostle to the Jews. Paul’s qualifications for apostleship had been attacked by certain Judaistic elements in the Galatian churches, on the…
Monday 14th September 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 107:10-22 Galatians 1 Isaiah 33, Isaiah 34, Isaiah 35 GALATIANS 1 The BibleProject summary is found here: https://bibleproject.com/videos/galatians/ . TO: The churches in the Roman province of Galatia (probably Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe). These are the ones that Paul founded in his very first missionary journey. This would make this letter…
Sunday 13th September 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 22:17-27 2 Corinthians 13 Isaiah 30:19-33, Isaiah 31, Isaiah 32 2 CORINTHIANS 13 Paul reminds us again that the ultimate example of God’s power being shown through human weakness is the Cross. Jesus submitted himself to the most degrading torture and death that mankind could deliver – becoming as weak as it is possible to be – and…
Saturday 12th September 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 107:1-9 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 Isaiah 29, Isaiah 30:1-18 ISAIAH 28, 29 and 30 Isaiah prophesies a series of six ‘woes’ on various nations in the vicinity of Judah. Firstly, he rounds on Samaria, the capital of the Northern kingdom and generally acknowledged to be beautiful, built on a hilltop and full of luxury and…
Friday 11th September 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 106:40-48 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 Isaiah 27, Isaiah 28 2 CORINTHIANS 12 Today we investigate Paul’s much-debated ‘Thorn in the Flesh’; what was it? But first, Paul is well into his stride boasting (perhaps just a little sarcastically) about amazing visions and revelations of heaven and of Jesus himself. Paul describes – actually in a…
Thursday 10th September 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 106:32-39 2 Corinthians 11:16-33 Isaiah 24, Isaiah 25, Isaiah 26 ISAIAH 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 Tyre was the major seaport and trading centre on the Mediterranean coast of the Middle East. It was founded before 2000 BC and was a centre of colonisation that included Carthage in North Africa. A substantial part…
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