Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ. If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. Each one...

So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise.  Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.  And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Ephesians 5:15-17 + 21 (NLT) Comment How intentional are you about...

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.  John 15.15 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on...

David and Bathsheba In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army… But David remained in Jerusalem. One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman...

“He mocks proud mockers and gives grace to the humble” Proverbs 4:34 Comment God hates pride and loves humility. In today’s world humility is likened to being weak. The trouble with pride is that it makes ‘me’ the centre of my life. Humility is part of the character of God, God wants us to be humble and it’s even the...

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Colossians 3:12 Comment It was a...

‘This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love; Christ gave up his life for us.  That’s why we ought to live sacrificially for each other and not just be out for ourselves.  If we see each other needing something and have the means of doing something about it, but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens...

(Jesus said…) “at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” Matthew 19:4-6 Comment Our culture...

Psalm 107 v 2 Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story….. V4-9 Some wandered in desert wastelands finding no way to a place where they could settle They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away… He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things…. Comment Every Christian has been redeemed from the power of...

Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tender hearted, and keep a humble attitude. Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will...