Author: nickjones2011

Ezekiel 16 is one of the most shocking and beautiful chapters in the Bible. It is shocking for it shows us just how awful our sin is, but it is beautiful as we see God’s tender care for His people and His wonderful promises for the future. God compares His people to an adulterous people.…

Are you ever likely to forget God’s steadfast love? Maybe it’s when things are hard, and you wonder “how can a loving God allow this?” Perhaps with all God’s people went through in exile, they were tempted to question God’s love. We have an enemy that from the beginning has been getting people to question…

God has given some wonderful promises in Ezekiel 11 that bring great joy! Although things look very bleak, the glory of the Lord has departed from, the temple (Ezekiel 10), and many of the people have been carried off into exile, with further destruction to come. It is so bad that Ezekiel cries out to…

There seem to be lots of ideas as to what it means to be born again. Some see it as an optional extra, as in there are the ordinary Christians and the born again types. In John 3, one of the most religious men of Israel comes to see Jesus, surely if anyone is right…

Sometimes we may think our sin is not that serious. Maybe we compare ourselves to others and we think, we’re not too bad. The prophet Ezekiel shows the seriousness of sin and the awful consequences for Israel for the rebellion. Ezekiel has to act out what is happening. He makes a model of the city…

How often do you wonder at the fact that God became a man?! The gospel of John helps us to see something of the enormity of the incarnation. He begins in eternity past, reminding us that God the Son has always existed, He was there in the beginning with God the Father and God the…

As you look around a world filled with pain and suffering and war, do you ever find yourself wondering, why hasn’t Jesus come back? Some of course laugh at such an idea, they think you’re crazy for even believing that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead. It’s encouraging to know that…

What do you do when those you love have turned away from the Lord? You cry out to the Lord that they would return. That is what Asaph does in Psalm 80. The northern kingdom of Israel have turned away from the Lord, and they have gone into exile in Assyria. Asaph cries out to…

It is wonderful that the Bible contains such great promises, but how can we know that it is actually true? Our reading from 2 Peter helps us with this question. Peter is nearing the end of his life (1:14) as he writes his second letter, he also knows that there will be false teachers (2:1),…