We sometimes doubt ourselves and we sometimes doubt God but this psalm is an encouragement. Verse 7 tells us: ‘Be at rest once more O my soul for the Lord has been good to you.’
We sometimes doubt ourselves and we sometimes doubt God but this psalm is an encouragement. Verse 7 tells us: ‘Be at rest once more O my soul for the Lord has been good to you.’
As Christians we are under new management. We were under Adam and the covenant of works. Now, we are under Christ and the covenant of grace. We have new status, new life and we are a new person. But sin is lurking.
We all love to hear good news. Over the last 3 studies in Romans we have been reading how we are bad, we live in a bad society. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’. In this passage we hear that a ‘righteousness from God has been revealed’. We look this […]
We value some people over others. God looks at things differently. In this passage, righteous means being obedient to his law. Wicked means being disobedient to his law. We should remember that there is no one righteous, not even one.
The marvellous grace of our loving Lord. It means receiving the kindness of God, the opposite of what we deserve. C S Lewis was asked what made Christianity different from any other religion and he replied that with other religions you get what you deserve, but Christianity teaches that God sent his only Son to […]
We saw in Chapter 1 that Ruth chose to stay with her mother-in-law rather than return to her own people. In Chapter 2, we see Ruth and Naomi in Bethlehem in a place of desperate hardship. But they discover that God gives grace – gifts we do not deserve – and that he has mercy […]
Today we welcomed Rev Chris ‘Kiki’ MacRae from Kilmallie & Ardnamurchan Free Church who took our communion service this morning. He guided us through this passage in Mark 15 focusing on three things: the mocking that Jesus endured the darkness that came upon Him the confession made by one who observed how he died, the Roman […]
The church is growing through God’s grace. Problems can start and that is what is happening in this passage. The devil is trying to disrupt the work of the church through persecution, corruption and disunity.