1 O hear my urgent cry, my God,and listen to my plea.2 From earth’s remotest bounds I callwhen my heart faints in me. O God, conduct me to the rockthat’s higher far than I.3 For you’re my refuge from the foe,my tower of strength on high. 4 O let me dwell within your tent,for ever […]
Daily Devotion 25th August
Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to […]
Daily Devotion – this time with the reading!
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and […]
Daily Devotion 23rd August
But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it is said, ‘When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his people.’ (When it says, ‘He ascended’, what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the […]
Daily Devotion 22nd August 2018
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body […]
Daily Devotion 21st August
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in […]
Daily Devotion 20th August 2018
St Paul refers to himself as “servant” and “the very least of all the saints”. In doing so he echoes the call of Jesus upon us all: “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all”. (Mark 9: 35) A willingness to be a servant of others is a core […]
Daily Devotion 19th August 2018
1 You, O God, have overthrown usand have cast us clean away.You have dealt with us in anger;now restore us, Lord, we pray. 2 You have torn the land asunder;you have made the land to shake.O come down and mend its fractures,for you caused the earth to quake. 3 You have made your people suffertimes […]
Daily Devotion by Stewart Cutler
This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles – for surely you have already heard of the commission of God’s grace that was given to me for you, and how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I wrote above in […]
Daily Devotion 17th August 2018
So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by those who are called ‘the circumcision’ – a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands – remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of […]