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I’d been praying that the Lord would help me understand the Sabbath better and then in His loving kindness He brought a book right in front of my eyes called “Call the Sabbath a delight”. I was sorting through books in the charity shop I work in when I came across it, and at 50p…

Solomon had everything, yet here in 1 Kings 11, we see it wasn’t enough. His striving for more and more led him to turn away from God, and tragically that led to a split in the kingdom as we’ll see as we read on in 1 Kings. The apostle Paul began his letter to Timothy…

Our daughter was born two months early and needed life saving surgery within 48 hours of being born. She was our firstborn and we thought we were going to lose her. I still remember the doctors giving us a side room in the hospital while our daughter was on a life support machine. Everything felt…

False teaching is deadly. The apostle Paul is so concerned about it that the first thing he tells Timothy to do is to “charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine” (1 Timothy 1:3). False teaching must not be tolerated in the church. What is false teaching? It is anything which is different from…

It is striking how often the great apostle Paul asked for prayer. If a man with a towering intellect, and great gifts knew he needed prayer, how much more does every other pastor. Gospel ministry is hard, and your pastor needs you to pray for him. What an encouragement it is for a pastor to…

Whatever you are facing in life, what a comfort Christ our warrior king with us. Psalm 127 is not a psalm about us having lots of children, but of the blessing of belonging to Christ. We are told first of all that the Lord builds the house. The word ‘house’ was used in psalm 122…

I don’t like talking about hell. I don’t imagine the apostle Paul liked talking about hell either, but like his master, our Lord Jesus, he had to speak about the reality of hell. Jesus Christ is the most compassionate man who ever walked this earth, and his compassion led him to warn about hell and…

2024 is the year of elections with almost half of the world’s population having an election. Do you long for good government? Psalm 72 is a prayer for the ultimate leader, it comes at the end of book 2 of the psalms and its a prayer that the king would be the king of Psalms…

Losing a loved one is hard. The Christians in Thessalonica were confused, they were a young church and expectant church. Paul had taught them that Jesus would return and rightly they expected this could happen in their lifetime, but Paul had got torn away from them before having the opportunity to teach them everything and…

The return of Christ is in every chapter of Paul’s short letter to the Thessalonians (1v10, 2v19, 3v13, 4v16, 5v2). The return of Christ changes how we live in the present. Paul is so thankful that the Thessalonians turned from idols to the living God, trusting in Jesus’ death on their behalf (1:9-10). He had…