Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty verse Eleven, “I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live,” (NRSVB). The elders who were in captivity in Babylon, came to Ezekiel, to inquire…
Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from the Book of the Prophet Joel, Chapter Two verse Thirteen, “The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing,” (NRSVB). The traditional, suggested date that many Old Testament scholars believe the…
Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapter Thirty One verse Thirty Four, “I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sins not more,” (NRSVB). Jeremiah saw a vision that gave him hope for the times to come. He saw the…
Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapter Two verse Twenty Seven, “They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces; but in the time of their trouble, they say: Arise, O Lord, and save us,” ( Amplified Bible)….
Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from the Wisdom Writings, from the Book of Proverbs, Chapter Fifteen verse Thirteen, “A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken,” (NRSVB). The purpose of the wisdom sayings is to impart skilful…
Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for the month of October is taken from the Epistle to the Hebrews, Chapter Ten verse Twenty Four, “Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,” (NRSVB). The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews encourages the believers…
Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from Psalm One Hundred and Thirty verse Three, “If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand,” (NRSVB). In this psalm the psalmist draws the reader’s attention to the kindness of God, his forgiveness of sins and his grace…
Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from Psalm Thirty Four verse Eight, “The angel of the Lord is on guard round those who fear him,” (NRSVB). The Twenty Ninth Day of September is traditionally celebrated in the Christian Church as Saint Michael’s Day. We read of the…
Dear Readers and Listeners Our watchword for today is taken from the Book of Genesis, Chapter Three verse Nineteen, “God said: By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return,” (NRSVB). In…
Dear Readers and Listeners, Friends in Jesus Christ, Our watchword for today is taken from Psalm One Hundred and Nineteen verse Sixty Seven, “Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now your word I keep,” (Amplified Bible). In this collection of meditations on the influence of the word of God within humans, the poet…
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