Author: nickjones2011

As exam season and pride month continue it may be tempting to look to academic success or your sexuality for your identity. Psalm 8 helps us to look somewhere else. It’s a wonderful God focussed Psalm, beginning and ending with the majesty of God. It is in looking to the God of the Bible that…

June is pride month. There’s lots of pressure to conform, it’s much easier to just go with the flow. But in our reading today God says, “do not be conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2). If you follow Jesus, you’re not to just go with the flow, but to go God’s way. Sometimes our light…

If you have ever been wronged, you will know that justice matters. In Psalm 7, David has been wronged. A man called Cush has falsely accused David of something and it’s ruining David. He feels like he’s being torn apart like the prey of a lion (v2). David does the best thing, he cries out…

We saw yesterday that if you love God, it’s because He chose to have mercy on you. In Romans 10 we see the heart of God for unbelieving people as God says “all day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.” (V21). God has been so patient, think of…

Yesterday we saw the amazing news of total security for the believer in Christ. But maybe you look at your suffering and you wonder, how can God love you when He lets this happen? Our Psalmist wrestles with this in Psalm 43. Graciously God gives us the words to say when we feel like this,…

Could this be the best chapter in the whole Bible?! Romans 8 begins with “no condemnation” and ends with the confidence that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. It’s a chapter that fills us with confidence of the total security for the believer in Christ Jesus. Who are the…

“Do not read this!” Why does that make you want to read this? Or why when you see a “wet paint! Don’t touch” sign do you want to touch it! The thought of touching the wall before reading the sign wouldn’t have crossed your mind, but once you see a command telling you not to,…

If we are made right with God by trusting in Jesus, does it matter how you live? Sometimes people object to being saved by faith in Jesus’ finished work on the cross because they say it means people can live how they want. If we are saved by grace then why not just sin more…

What a strange thing to say! It’s not that the apostle Paul enjoyed suffering anymore than anyone else. How then could he write “we rejoice in our sufferings”? It’s not Paul hadn’t really suffered; he had faced intense personal suffering, including being shipwrecked, stoned, beaten with rods, sleepless nights, time in prison. He had the…

Could there be a more important question than this? How do I get right with God? Here is a question of eternal significance. Every man-made religion says it’s about what you do. You have got to do something to get to God. Such an approach appeals to our pride, since it means we contribute something.…