Malcolm Cox

Many things God helps us escape from

1. Bible Examples

QUESTION: Examples of people in the Bible who escaped

2. Personal Experience

QUESTION: What has God helped you escape from so far? 

3. Future Hope

QUESTION: What helps us stay escaped?

Conclusion

1. And can it be that I should gain

An int’rest in the Saviour’s blood?

Died He for me, who caused His pain?

For me, who Him to death pursued?

Amazing love! how can it be

That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Amazing love! how can it be

That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

2. ’Tis mystery all! The Immortal dies!

Who can explore His strange design?

In vain the firstborn seraph tries

To sound the depths of love Divine!

’Tis mercy all! let earth adore,

Let angel minds inquire no more.

’Tis mercy all! let earth adore,

Let angel minds inquire no more.

3. He left His Father’s throne above,

So free, so infinite His grace;

Emptied Himself of all but love,

And bled for Adam’s helpless race:

’Tis mercy all, immense and free;

For, O my God, it found out me.

’Tis mercy all, immense and free;

For, O my God, it found out me.

4. Long my imprisoned spirit lay

Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;

Thine eye diffused a quickening ray,

I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;

My chains fell off, my heart was free,

I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.

My chains fell off, my heart was free,

I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.

5. No condemnation now I dread;

Jesus, and all in Him, is mine!

Alive in Him, my living Head,

And clothed in righteousness Divine,

Bold I approach the eternal throne,

And claim the crown, through Christ my own.

Bold I approach the eternal throne,

And claim the crown, through Christ my own.

Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community. 

Do you have a question about teaching the Bible? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send me your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: [email protected].

If you’d like a copy of my free eBook on spiritual disciplines, “How God grows His people”, sign up at my website: http://www.malcolmcox.org.

Please pass the link on, subscribe, leave a review.

“Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11)

God bless, Malcolm

PS: You might also be interested in my book: "An elephant's swimming pool", a devotional look at the Gospel of John

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"Psalms of Ascent Series", Quiet Time Coaching: Episode 186, Psalm 128v5 

You have found a daily podcast based on the Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). 

They are designed to help our hearts and minds being a healthy place while the Covid 19 virus does its worst. 

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:1–4 NIV11) 

Each day we will meditate on a verse or two from these wonderful Psalms as we make our pilgrimage from confusion to hope, pain to peace, anxiety to joy. 

It’s not just about us and our family, but our prosperity is bound up with the bigger picture.

The prosperity of God’s special possession must mean everything to us.  It is something we walk towards and work towards - we have a destination, Eph 1:13-14. 

Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community. 

Do you have a question about teaching the Bible? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send me your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: [email protected].

If you’d like a copy of my free eBook on spiritual disciplines, “How God grows His people”, sign up at my website: http://www.malcolmcox.org.

Please pass the link on, subscribe, leave a review.

“Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11)

God bless, Malcolm

PS: You might also be interested in my book: "An elephant's swimming pool", a devotional look at the Gospel of John

mccx, Malcolm Cox, Watford, Croxley Green, teaching, preaching, spiritual disciplines, public speaking, corporate worship, Sunday Sample, Corporate Worship Matters, Tuesday Teaching Tips, Quiet Time Coaching, coaching, coaching near me, coach, online coaching, savior, quiet time, devotion, God, Jesus, Pray, prayer, malcolm’s, cox, 

"Psalms of Ascent Series", Quiet Time Coaching: Episode 186, Psalm 128v5 

You have found a daily podcast based on the Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). 

They are designed to help our hearts and minds being a healthy place while the Covid 19 virus does its worst. 

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:1–4 NIV11) 

Each day we will meditate on a verse or two from these wonderful Psalms as we make our pilgrimage from confusion to hope, pain to peace, anxiety to joy. 

It’s not just about us and our family, but our prosperity is bound up with the bigger picture.

The prosperity of God’s special possession must mean everything to us.  It is something we walk towards and work towards - we have a destination, Eph 1:13-14. 

Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community. 

Do you have a question about teaching the Bible? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send me your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: [email protected].

If you’d like a copy of my free eBook on spiritual disciplines, “How God grows His people”, sign up at my website: http://www.malcolmcox.org.

Please pass the link on, subscribe, leave a review.

“Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11)

God bless, Malcolm

PS: You might also be interested in my book: "An elephant's swimming pool", a devotional look at the Gospel of John

mccx, Malcolm Cox, Watford, Croxley Green, teaching, preaching, spiritual disciplines, public speaking, corporate worship, Sunday Sample, Corporate Worship Matters, Tuesday Teaching Tips, Quiet Time Coaching, coaching, coaching near me, coach, online coaching, savior, quiet time, devotion, God, Jesus, Pray, prayer, malcolm’s, cox, 

"Psalms of Ascent Series", Quiet Time Coaching: Episode 185, Psalm 128v4 

You have found a daily podcast based on the Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). 

They are designed to help our hearts and minds being a healthy place while the Covid 19 virus does its worst. 

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:1–4 NIV11) 

Each day we will meditate on a verse or two from these wonderful Psalms as we make our pilgrimage from confusion to hope, pain to peace, anxiety to joy. 

God is not safe, but He is good.  Our relationship grows healthily as we learn who He is - and that is best learned with proper respect for His ‘otherness’.  We do not try to bring God down to our size, but gaze upon him. He is better described than defined.

Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community. 

Do you have a question about teaching the Bible? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send me your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: [email protected].

If you’d like a copy of my free eBook on spiritual disciplines, “How God grows His people”, sign up at my website: http://www.malcolmcox.org.

Please pass the link on, subscribe, leave a review.

“Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11)

God bless, Malcolm

PS: You might also be interested in my book: "An elephant's swimming pool", a devotional look at the Gospel of John

mccx, Malcolm Cox, Watford, Croxley Green, teaching, preaching, spiritual disciplines, public speaking, corporate worship, Sunday Sample, Corporate Worship Matters, Tuesday Teaching Tips, Quiet Time Coaching, coaching, coaching near me, coach, online coaching, savior, quiet time, devotion, God, Jesus, Pray, prayer, malcolm’s, cox, 

"Psalms of Ascent Series", Quiet Time Coaching: Episode 185, Psalm 128v4 

You have found a daily podcast based on the Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). 

They are designed to help our hearts and minds being a healthy place while the Covid 19 virus does its worst. 

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:1–4 NIV11) 

Each day we will meditate on a verse or two from these wonderful Psalms as we make our pilgrimage from confusion to hope, pain to peace, anxiety to joy. 

God is not safe, but He is good.  Our relationship grows healthily as we learn who He is - and that is best learned with proper respect for His ‘otherness’.  We do not try to bring God down to our size, but gaze upon him. He is better described than defined.

Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community. 

Do you have a question about teaching the Bible? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send me your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: [email protected].

If you’d like a copy of my free eBook on spiritual disciplines, “How God grows His people”, sign up at my website: http://www.malcolmcox.org.

Please pass the link on, subscribe, leave a review.

“Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11)

God bless, Malcolm

PS: You might also be interested in my book: "An elephant's swimming pool", a devotional look at the Gospel of John

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How many weeks have we been in lockdown now? I've lost count. In fact, I often struggle to figure out which day of the week it is.

I sat down the other day to try and figure out what some of the lessons might be for me and those of us of the Christian faith from all that is going on. What happens when we look at these events through the lens of the New Testament? I don't have all my thinking processed yet, but here are a few ideas.

Last week Simon Palmer was restored here in Watford. I heard recently that two teenagers had been baptised in this period in Belfast. Just yesterday a teenager was baptised in the sea down in Dorset.  There are many, many stories like this going on not only in this country but around the world. It might be a truism, but it is vital to remember that our physical restrictions have no bearing whatsoever on the Spirit's effectiveness. In fact, in some ways the Spirit seems to have been more powerfully released because of what is going on.

A quick skim through the book of Acts reminds us that the church progressed, matured and expanded as a direct result of the unexpected actions of the Spirit. Whilst talking to a friend about this yesterday it occurred to me that on each occasion something unexpected happened to disrupt the life of the early church, our early brothers and sisters went through four phases. These were: surprise; wrestling; insight; cooperation.

Where are you and where is your congregation or family group in this process? Are you still in the surprise/chaos scenario? Are you fasting, praying and wrestling with God to make sense of things? Have you found a Spirit-inspired insight revealing God's purpose in this? Are you now consciously, intentionally and practically planning on cooperating with what the Spirit has shown you?

I would love to hear your thoughts on this and your stories of surprise, wrestling, insight and cooperation. For myself, different aspects of my personal spiritual life and church life are in different phases. Predominantly I have moved beyond the surprise phase, but some parts of what's going on cause me to continue to wrestle. I have some new insights regarding the value and effectiveness of online church, outreach and training. I sense that cooperation is on its way and has begun, but there is much more to do.

Could it be that one of the reasons God has allowed the current situation is to help us grasp something that the apostle Paul understood?

“I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.” (1 Corinthians 2:3–5 NIV11)If this period teaches us to rely on God's power more than our own wisdom, all of what we are experiencing will be worth it.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and that you are able to discern what the Spirit is showing you to his glory and your joy.

God bless, Malcolm

How many weeks have we been in lockdown now? I've lost count. In fact, I often struggle to figure out which day of the week it is.

I sat down the other day to try and figure out what some of the lessons might be for me and those of us of the Christian faith from all that is going on. What happens when we look at these events through the lens of the New Testament? I don't have all my thinking processed yet, but here are a few ideas.

Last week Simon Palmer was restored here in Watford. I heard recently that two teenagers had been baptised in this period in Belfast. Just yesterday a teenager was baptised in the sea down in Dorset.  There are many, many stories like this going on not only in this country but around the world. It might be a truism, but it is vital to remember that our physical restrictions have no bearing whatsoever on the Spirit's effectiveness. In fact, in some ways the Spirit seems to have been more powerfully released because of what is going on.

A quick skim through the book of Acts reminds us that the church progressed, matured and expanded as a direct result of the unexpected actions of the Spirit. Whilst talking to a friend about this yesterday it occurred to me that on each occasion something unexpected happened to disrupt the life of the early church, our early brothers and sisters went through four phases. These were: surprise; wrestling; insight; cooperation.

Where are you and where is your congregation or family group in this process? Are you still in the surprise/chaos scenario? Are you fasting, praying and wrestling with God to make sense of things? Have you found a Spirit-inspired insight revealing God's purpose in this? Are you now consciously, intentionally and practically planning on cooperating with what the Spirit has shown you?

I would love to hear your thoughts on this and your stories of surprise, wrestling, insight and cooperation. For myself, different aspects of my personal spiritual life and church life are in different phases. Predominantly I have moved beyond the surprise phase, but some parts of what's going on cause me to continue to wrestle. I have some new insights regarding the value and effectiveness of online church, outreach and training. I sense that cooperation is on its way and has begun, but there is much more to do.

Could it be that one of the reasons God has allowed the current situation is to help us grasp something that the apostle Paul understood?

“I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.” (1 Corinthians 2:3–5 NIV11)If this period teaches us to rely on God's power more than our own wisdom, all of what we are experiencing will be worth it.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and that you are able to discern what the Spirit is showing you to his glory and your joy.

God bless, Malcolm

"Psalms of Ascent Series", Quiet Time Coaching: Episode 184, Psalm 128v3 

You have found a daily podcast based on the Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). 

They are designed to help our hearts and minds being a healthy place while the Covid 19 virus does its worst. 

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:1–4 NIV11) 

Each day we will meditate on a verse or two from these wonderful Psalms as we make our pilgrimage from confusion to hope, pain to peace, anxiety to joy. 

The emphasis here is on the results of faithful reverence and walking with God, but the clear implication is that the blessings that come from this are never intended to stop with that one person. A life lived walking in God’s way is a life geared at blessing others, Acts 20:35.

Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community. 

Do you have a question about teaching the Bible? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send me your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: [email protected].

If you’d like a copy of my free eBook on spiritual disciplines, “How God grows His people”, sign up at my website: http://www.malcolmcox.org.

Please pass the link on, subscribe, leave a review.

“Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11)

God bless, Malcolm

PS: You might also be interested in my book: "An elephant's swimming pool", a devotional look at the Gospel of John

mccx, Malcolm Cox, Watford, Croxley Green, teaching, preaching, spiritual disciplines, public speaking, corporate worship, Sunday Sample, Corporate Worship Matters, Tuesday Teaching Tips, Quiet Time Coaching, coaching, coaching near me, coach, online coaching, savior, quiet time, devotion, God, Jesus, Pray, prayer, malcolm’s, cox, 

"Psalms of Ascent Series", Quiet Time Coaching: Episode 184, Psalm 128v3 

You have found a daily podcast based on the Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). 

They are designed to help our hearts and minds being a healthy place while the Covid 19 virus does its worst. 

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:1–4 NIV11) 

Each day we will meditate on a verse or two from these wonderful Psalms as we make our pilgrimage from confusion to hope, pain to peace, anxiety to joy. 

The emphasis here is on the results of faithful reverence and walking with God, but the clear implication is that the blessings that come from this are never intended to stop with that one person. A life lived walking in God’s way is a life geared at blessing others, Acts 20:35.

Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community. 

Do you have a question about teaching the Bible? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send me your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: [email protected].

If you’d like a copy of my free eBook on spiritual disciplines, “How God grows His people”, sign up at my website: http://www.malcolmcox.org.

Please pass the link on, subscribe, leave a review.

“Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11)

God bless, Malcolm

PS: You might also be interested in my book: "An elephant's swimming pool", a devotional look at the Gospel of John

mccx, Malcolm Cox, Watford, Croxley Green, teaching, preaching, spiritual disciplines, public speaking, corporate worship, Sunday Sample, Corporate Worship Matters, Tuesday Teaching Tips, Quiet Time Coaching, coaching, coaching near me, coach, online coaching, savior, quiet time, devotion, God, Jesus, Pray, prayer, malcolm’s, cox, 

"Psalms of Ascent Series", Quiet Time Coaching: Episode 183, Psalm 128 v2 

You have found a daily podcast based on the Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134). 

They are designed to help our hearts and minds being a healthy place while the Covid 19 virus does its worst. 

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” (Colossians 3:1–4 NIV11) 

Each day we will meditate on a verse or two from these wonderful Psalms as we make our pilgrimage from confusion to hope, pain to peace, anxiety to joy. 

Fearing God and walking in His ways demonstrates a willingness to allow Him to be God in our lives.  It is a position of submissiveness on our part that places us in the position to receive what He plans to give to us.  

For a Christian this idea is paralleled in 1 Jn 2:3-6. 

Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community. 

Do you have a question about teaching the Bible? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send me your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: [email protected].

If you’d like a copy of my free eBook on spiritual disciplines, “How God grows His people”, sign up at my website: http://www.malcolmcox.org.

Please pass the link on, subscribe, leave a review.

“Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11)

God bless, Malcolm

PS: You might also be interested in my book: "An elephant's swimming pool", a devotional look at the Gospel of John

mccx, Malcolm Cox, Watford, Croxley Green, teaching, preaching, spiritual disciplines, public speaking, corporate worship, Sunday Sample, Corporate Worship Matters, Tuesday Teaching Tips, Quiet Time Coaching, coaching, coaching near me, coach, online coaching, savior, quiet time, devotion, God, Jesus, Pray, prayer, malcolm’s, cox,