in Habakkuk
Habakkuk 1:1-4: The Doubting Prophet
People go through their lives not thinking about God, but as soon as something goes wrong then suddenly the questions fly and someone has to be blamed and God whose existence was being ignored is...
Psalm 51: Coming back to God after sin
How do we come back to God after sin? How do we return to God when we have sinned in a big way, or as a leader, or done a sin again that we committed...
in Christmas
John 1:14: Jesus tabernacled among us
“Jesus is the temple” is my Christmas meditation for us this year. It sounds weird I know but it is relevant I promise. We have recently been going through Luke’s gospel and looking at all...
in Luke
Luke 4:38-44: Jesus the Healer
Why do we get sick? The Bible teaches that we get sick and die because of the curse upon sin. Adam would have lived in a world full of bacteria but because his body was...
in Luke
Luke 4:31-37: The Authority of Jesus
A biblical counsellor tells of a couple he was counselling: ‘Cynthia, a woman I counselled, once cast a demon from her toaster when it failed to work! More seriously, she and her husband Andrew had...
in Luke
Luke 4:22-30: Rejecting Jesus
Why do people reject Jesus? Why do people see His claims, claims that we have seen and recognise to be true and wonderful and yet do not believe? Today we want to do an analysis...
in Luke
Luke 4:14-21: The Mission of Jesus
What was the mission of Jesus? What did He come to accomplish? There are various answers to those questions. The reason the answer is so important is because the Church is called to line up...
in Luke
Luke 4:1-13: The Temptation of Christ
You and I sin every day. There is no one here who is perfectly honest, perfectly loving, perfectly self-controlled, perfectly centred on God’s glory in everything they do. We are under constant assault from sin,...
in Luke
Luke 3:23-38: The Genealogy of Jesus
How many of you have traced back your family tree? There comes a time in life when you begin to seek out your past as a way to understand something of your identity. We all...
Disciplines of Grace: Introduction: Philippians 2:12-13
Let me begin with a statement, this generation of Christians in the West is the most informed and least godly generation of Christians that has ever been. I am not only talking about the fact...