"we had sailed slowly many days". Though the leisurely days of sail are long since past for the necessary journeys of life, we do find ourselves in a backwater sometimes ... Read more

"This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country". This news has now reached every country and been translated into almost every known language and dialect. The Authorised ... Read more

"As I was with Moses, so I will be with you". We have a wealth of testimony upon which we can draw for assessing any situation in which we find ... Read more

"go and learn". Some things cannot be appreciated all at once - the truth of them has to sink in or be wrought out in everyday life. Christian faith is ... Read more

"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised". The more you get acquainted with the Lord, the more you desire to praise Him. Drawing near to God brings an ... Read more

"If the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? ". A question asked in all sincerity by a servant of the Lord who was genuinely perplexed. ... Read more

"this man really is the Saviour of the world". Many may have offered to get this woman out of the mess into which she had fallen: but they were not ... Read more

"The Lord sends poverty and wealth". Two extremes that most of us shun. Poverty is most unpleasant and especially so to those who have known plenty. Wealth is a rather ... Read more

"if I build again the things which I destroyed". The edifice of sin and rebellion that the selfish heart has erected, sometimes over many years, can be destroyed in a ... Read more

"They all asked, 'Are you then the Son of God? ' ". Some may have asked by way of jest: the religious leaders who apprehended Jesus would be sarcastic. For ... Read more