Apr2018
Null and void
On the way they said to one another, ‘Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb? (It was a very large stone.) Then they looked up and saw that the stone had already been rolled back. So they entered the tomb, where they saw a young man sitting on… Read more
Mar2018
True news
The next day, which was a Sabbath, the chief priests and the Pharisees met with Pilate and said, ‘Sir, we remember that while the liar was still alive he said, “I will be raised to life three days later.” Give orders, then, for his tomb to be carefully guarded until the third day, so that… Read more
Mar2018
God of the filth
Then Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified. So they took charge of Jesus. He went out, carrying his cross, and came to ‘The Place of the Skull’, as it is called. (In Hebrew it is called ‘Golgotha’.) There they crucified him; and they also crucified two other men, one on each side,… Read more
Mar2018
The Lord’s meal or ours?
From the Lord I received the teaching that I passed on to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took the bread, gave thanks to God, broke it, and said, ‘This is my body, which is for you. Do this in memory of me.’ In the same way, he took the… Read more
Mar2018
Running the great race
As for us, we have this large crowd of witnesses round us. Let us rid ourselves, then, of everything that gets in the way, and the sin which holds on to us so tightly, and let us run with determination the race that lies before us. Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on… Read more
Mar2018
The nonsensical message of the cross
For the message about Christ’s death on the cross is nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved, it is God’s power. (verse 18) Read 1 Corinthians 1: 18-31 Crucifixions were common enough in the Roman empire. But sophisticated citizens never got used to them. The orator Cicero, for… Read more
Mar2018
A good conscience
How much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make our consciences clean from useless works, so that we may serve the living God. (verse 14) Read Hebrews 9: 11-15 Do you have a perfectly clean conscience? Is… Read more
Mar2018
Our monarch comes
Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches on the farmland nearby and spread them on the road. The people who were in front and those who followed behind began to shout, ‘Praise God! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord! God bless the coming kingdom of… Read more
Mar2018
The gift of a new day
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. (verse 24) Read Psalm 118: 1, 2, 19-29 You never know what’s in store for you each day, do you. You may have got up ‘on the wrong side of the bed’. There may have been some event ahead… Read more
Mar2018
Jealous Jesus
He said to another man, ‘Follow me’. But that man said, ‘Sir, first let me go back and bury my father’. Jesus answered, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead. You go and proclaim the Kingdom of God.’ Someone else said, ‘I will follow you, sir; but first let me go and say goodbye to… Read more
