"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 and with no power to get out of it quickly. Sickness, sorrow, working for someone else are some of the situations beyond our control. Missed ... 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 Version uses the word 'rumour' - a word that graphically describes the way men and women gossiped the news - 'Have you heard' they would ... 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 ourselves. The Lord has been guiding and blessing His people all down the centuries. When tempted to ask whether the Lord will come to our ... 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 an experience not a theorem. Its truth must be taught as a precept but one that needs to be put into practice. Jesus could raise ... 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 awareness of the awe and wonder of His presence. In heaven the Lord is surrounded by the praise and adoration of a heavenly host. On ... 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. A question only dared to be voiced because Gideon thought he spoke to a man, not an angel - yet the better for being voiced. ... 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 able even if sincere. Maybe some were even evil in their intentions. Now she had found the Saviour of the world and it was making ... 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 precarious situation - it does not procure the things in life that matter and it brings responsibility that none but a few can properly manage. ... 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 moment. But given time the same evil designs can reappear again. Destroying the works of the Devil does not eradicate his desire to regain 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 others it was something to say and none of them really knew the importance of what was taking place. But they all asked: it was ... Read more