The love Jesus has for us is intense and he passionately pursues us with his goodness and love, going after even the one who is lost.   ”Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever”. (Ps. 23:6) […]

In Hebrews 12:2 we are encouraged to “fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith” and to “consider him”. So what is a pioneer? The dictionary refers to a pioneer as being “a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.” Pioneers go first, […]

Jesus did not come to subvert the law, he came to fulfil it. But he did come to overthrow and break down the the religious and rigid interpretations that people had built up around the law, and the practices they had added to it. The Sermon on the Mount (see Matthew 5-7) is full of […]

Charles Wesley’s hymn, “And Can It Be”, contains this verse: 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 th’eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own We are, as the fourth line states, “clothed in […]

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but]indeed you are bearing with me. 2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. 3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be […]

If we are going to follow Jesus, we have to walk. Walking is used in the Bible as a metaphor – to walk with God is to live a life of daily trust and obedience, step by step. It is ‘keeping in step with the Holy Spirit’ (Gal.5:25) as we go on this journey of […]

Following Jesus and serving go hand in hand. This week Ruth guides us through what that might look like in our daily lives

We can spend our whole lives following the pursuit of stuff but will never be satisfied. Here is Dan to encourage us that there is another way.

When we become Christians, followers of Jesus, we die to our old way of life, we come alive to Christ. Water baptism symbolises this. We go down into the water, like being buried in a grave, and come up out of the water, like being resurrected from the dead. We learn that to be a […]

“When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” These are the words of pastor and writer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who literally gave his life because of his faithfulness to the gospel and to the way of Jesus. At dawn, on 9 April 1945, at Flossenburg Concentration Camp, he was stripped naked, dragged to […]