Today’s Our Daily Bread, reminds me not only that I am completely gutted I am not running the London Marathon this year, but also of how important encouragement has been to me throughout any of my marathons.  It is strange that even when you are at that dreaded mile 20 – 22, and your legs...

Who is God? A question that to which you may get many different answers. A close friend of mine things God is a guy in the clouds with a white beard who throws thunderbolts down from heaven and makes rules for us all to follow. His idea of God sounds much like the god Zeus from Greek mythology, and...

Happy Easter!  Christ is Risen.  Hallelujah!  He has defeated sin and death and is sat at the right hand of the Father in heaven.  He has gone ahead to prepare a place for us.  In the mean time it is our duty to go make disciples of ALL nations.  Our saviour didn’t expect us to do this on...

1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 (NIV) When things go wrong who do we turn to?  In the past friends could have let us down, our work and colleagues could have let us down, even people at church.  When people attack us, again who do we turn to?  In lifes...

16 “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death...

13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Just a couple of days ago, I was researching worry.  The passage was Matthew 6:25-34 in which Jesus gets us to ask questions about why we are worrying to help us see the pointlessness of worrying.  He emphasises that point with Matthew 6:27; 27...

King David’s Psalm here talks of trusting and waiting on the Lord. In all the hard times, David is asking the Lord for protection and strength. 14 Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Verse 14 in a nutshell? Trust in the Lord. In the good times and the bad, we should...

4 Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. This reminds me of the “Footprint’s in the Sand” poem. In brief a man walks with the Lord on the beach. Looking at the footprints...

Today’s devotional picks out 2 verses that speak to our daily struggles: Psalm 119:67,71 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word. 71 It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. Whatever the Psalmist’s affliction, instead of becoming...

This Psalm is a prayer for help.  The writer is asking God for strength, comfort and wisdom (Psalm 31:3).  Looking back at my own life, there have been so many times when I have been scared, lacked the wisdom to deal with an awkward situation or lacked the strength to see something through to the end. ...