1 Peter

Today, we read the inspiring vision of the future contained in Psalm 72. Now, David’s primary vision in writing it was for his son Solomon’s’ reign. It starts, “Give the king your justice, O God” …

Matthew 26 recounts the agonies of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and his prayers. “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as you will” …

Job’s friends have given up reasoning with him! This is good; their point of view was a sort of tunnel vision arising from their conviction that his woes were the result of some concealed misbehaviour on his part …

Zerubbabel is the “governor of Judah” at the time Haggai uttered his prophecy, the prophet is contemporary to Ezra and Nehemiah and there are dozens of references to him …

It has always been so – but it is more obvious today – how meaningless life is in the ultimate sense. More than ever before people are living for the here and now …

We meditate thoughtfully on Peter’s first letter: he was writing to the “elect exiles of the Dispersion” (1:1) – primarily Jews – as James (1:1) had also done …

When we were young ‘whitewash’ was used a lot, it was a very cheap sort of white ‘paint’ you could quickly put on walls, even splash on and a grubby wall would quickly look good …

Today we continued meditating on the Epistle of James and the vital observations he makes on the quality of faith that a believer needs to have …

Our Luke reading today features Jesus’ criticism of the religious leaders. They were obsessed with unimportant ritual. They had elaborated on the straightforward commandments of Moses ...

Throughout the Old Testament, especially from the time of the Law of Moses, tithing became an established principle for God’s nation. But we must remember that this was a law for a nation ...