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…
Tuesday 21st April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 49:1-20 Luke 20:27-47, Luke 21:1-4 Deuteronomy 33, Deuteronomy 34:1-12 DEUTERONOMY 32, 33 and 34 If you wrote and released a song along the lines of the Song of Moses – Deuteronomy 32 – it would be a commercial failure; this is mainly since it spends most of its verses rebuking its target listeners and…
Monday 20th April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 48:9-14 Luke 19:45-48, Luke 20:1-26 Deuteronomy 31:30, Deuteronomy 32 LUKE 20 “Trick or Treat?” “We are going to ask you an impossible question and, if you give the wrong answer, something bad might happen to you!” In today’s reading, Jesus’ opponents take it in turns to attempt to catch him out by asking him…
Sunday 19th April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 48:1-8 Luke 19:11-44 Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Deuteronomy 31:1-29 DEUTERONOMY 30 and 31 The Lord immediately reveals what will become of Israel: they will in fact inherit both the blessings and the curses; for a time they will obey the Lord and be blessed in every way, and then they will rebel as an entire…
Saturday 18th April 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 10:1-10 Luke 18:31-43, Luke 19:1-10 Deuteronomy 29, Deuteronomy 30:1-10 LUKE 19 Four stories, including one parable, that all feature a king arriving unexpectedly to groups of people: Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector had a major advantage in life: he was very rich; and a major disadvantage: he was very small. He chose to do the…
Friday 17th April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 47:1-9 Luke 18:1-30 Deuteronomy 28:15-68 LUKE 18 Prayer features a great deal in Luke’s gospel. Today, in a series of parables or encounters, Jesus tells us what a disciple’s attitude and behaviour towards God should be like. First, the parable of the ‘Persistent Widow’: “Always pray and don’t give up!”. Perseverance is…
Thursday 16th April 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 46:1-11 Luke 17:11-37 Deuteronomy 26, Deuteronomy 27, Deuteronomy 28:1-14 DEUTERONOMY 24, 25, 26 and 27 The subject of legitimate divorce was as live a topic in Jesus’ day as the question of legitimate marriage is in ours. Two ‘schools’ of rabbis – Shammai and Hillel – disputed whether a man could divorce his wife…
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