2017/11 Profitable Bible Study - Some Practical Tips The more time you spend contemplating what you have read in your Bible, the more beneficial it will be to your soul. Bishop JC Ryle of Liverpool said: “next to praying, there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.” He went on to say “the man

2017/11 The Seed of Abraham ‘For verily He took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham’ Hebrews 2:16 Here is the love and wisdom of the Father in preparing a body for His Son, in which the fullness of the Godhead would dwell. The incarnation of

2017/09 How To Have a Meaningful Quiet Time Time is precious. The Christian’s quiet time before God is even more so. In an age where gadgets and apps are designed to save us time, we end up feeling as if we don’t have enough of it. As a result, the believer’s quiet time is the

2017/09 God's Way in Man's Wrath ‘The wrath of man shall praise thee’ Psalm 76:10. An ungodly world is filled with wrath against Christ and His church. ‘The heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing; the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against

2017/03 The Greatest Recovery “I restored that which I took not away.” Psalm 69:4 Satan and sin are robbers against both God and man. Satan, in tempting God’s image bearer to sin, set out to rob God of the glory of His wisdom, justice and power. It resulted in the will of the creature being

2017/01 Walk Wisely “See then that ye walk circumspectly.” Ephesians 5:6 The righteous have a new name, ‘one that is written among the living in Jerusalem’ (Isaiah 4:3). The Lord knows them and has put a difference between them and others. They are ‘the apple of his eye’ (Zechariah 2:8), even His ‘jewels’ (Malachi 3:17).Though

2016/11 Seeing the day of Christ “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it and was glad.” John 8:56 Desires after Christ must surely fill believers’ hearts with holy joy. Such yearnings as these never go unfulfilled.   Abraham, though he did not see the Messiah actually manifested in the flesh, had

2013/11 The Dayspring ‘The dayspring from on high hath visited us.’  Luke 1:78 There is only one sun in creation and only one Sun in grace. Christ, “the light of the world” (John 8:12) is “the Sun of righteousness” (Malachi 4:2). Peter calls Him “the day star” (2 Peter 1:19) and John spoke of  “the

2016/07 Precious Promises All the promises of God are made to us in Christ and He Himself is the very first promise (Genesis 3:15).  When He is promised, all is promised, for He ‘is all and in all’ (Colossians 3:11). Whatever blessing we enjoy it is in Christ first, and belongs to us when we

2014/01 Immanuel ‘They shall call his name Immanuel...God with us.’  Matthew 1:23 A New Year dawns and every traveller on the way to Zion steps out on a new stage of the journey. Already, our Lord has the line of the path marked out and provision made for its every necessity. He has an appropriate