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When you read Leviticus, there’s lots of laws that may seem confusing to us, like the ones about the clean and unclean animals! What are we to do with this? If it’s ok to bacon today, then what about the 10 commandments, are they still valid? How shall we live? It’s helpful to see that…

Guilt can enslave, crush us, and can make us hide from God. Sometimes people may try to suppress guilt, perhaps convince themselves that they haven’t done anything wrong, but when David tried this he said it was as if his bones wasted away. Sometimes the guilt comes out in a fit of rage, and maybe…

“He’s down to earth…one of us” What an amazing thing to say about our saviour! Our God is not some far off deity that we have to earn the favour of. Hebrews 2 tells us that Jesus is not ashamed to call His people “brothers”! Why is Jesus not ashamed to call us brothers? Because,…

I wonder if you have ever built a house? I imagine that you have a vision of what you want, you talk it over with the architect, wait for the planning permission, wait for the builders, wait some more…the anticipation builds, then there’s the electrician, plumber, plasterer, glazer, gardener! I’m sure there’s some joy when…

“Stop giving!” Imagine a church where the people were so generous that they had to be told to stop giving! That is what Moses had to tell the people as they provided for the construction of the tabernacle (Exodus 36:6). Why were they so generous? Psalm 26:8 reveals the heart of the people “O LORD,…

“I’d believe if I saw a sign” Well the people had seen 10 signs, and then the parting of the Red Sea! Bread from heaven, water from the rock, and yet when Moses is meeting with the very God who rescued them and did all these signs, they struggle to believe by faith. They need…

In Exodus 28 we see one of the privileges of the High Priest was to carry the names of the tribes of Israel before the LORD. The priests were a shadow of our great High Priest who we read about in our reading from Philippians 2. Our great High Priest left the riches of heaven…

It’s Valentine’s Day coming up, how do you think my wife would feel if I gave her a bunch of bananas instead of a bunch of flowers?! Would she congratulate me for being thrifty?! How about if I told you that Dorothy really dislikes bananas?! It doesn’t matter that I love them and think they…

One of the things I love about the Psalms is that they show us the heart of Jesus. The writer of the book of Hebrews tells us that “in the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears.” (Hebrews 5:7) Some of those prayers were undoubtedly the Psalms.…

I had my first driving experience when I was about 4 – my mum had let me play in her Renault 4! She was in the house washing her hair over the bath. I was being Nigel Mansell, but then the car actually starting moving! I had let the handbrake off in my excitement. The…