Hebrews 3 (with OT quotes in italics) 1 Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also ‘was faithful in all God’s house.’ 3 Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 4th July 2024
Hebrews 2:5-18 (with OT quotes in italics) 5 Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. 6 But someone has testified somewhere, ‘What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them?7 You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 3rd July 2024
Wednesday 3rd July 2024 Hebrews 2:1-4 1 Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. 2 For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It was declared […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 2nd July 2024
Hebrews 1:3-14 (with OT quotes in italics) 3 [The Son] is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much superior to angels […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 1st July 2024
Monday 1st July 2024 Hebrews 1:1-2 1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. Reflection People who wear bifocal glasses have two ranges of sight, […]
The Epistle to the Hebrews
The Epistle to the Hebrews Dear Friends, I hope you enjoyed our last week’s worth of reflections arising from Dag Hammarskjöld’s Markings. During July we will be reading through the Epistle to the Hebrews together guided by John Proctor, a former tutor at Westminster College. Some early Christians attributed this letter to Paul but, even […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 29th June 2024
“In your wind, In your light… How small everything else is, how small we are – and blessed in that which alone is great” Reading John 3, 7-8 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all be born from above.’ The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 28th June 2024
John 13, 34-35 Jesus said: “I give you a new commandment—to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples—if you have love for one another.” Reflection Dag Hammarskjöld wrote about always treating other people’s good as the […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 27th June 2024
“What we are to put into life will seek us out, it is not for us to seek out our life’s purpose.Thus you are being faithful if you wait, ready. And then you act when action is demanded of you.” Reading: St Luke 9, 23-25 Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 26th June 2024
Reading Romans 8, 5-11 For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit. For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is […]