A word from a friend I had to share: Just read this wonderfully encouraging quote to young mothers and wives from Martin Luther, here ’tis – “Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, ‘Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers? make its bed? smell its stench? stay [...]
Don’t have The Message but want to read along? Open a new tab and go to www.biblegateway.com put philippians in the search and choose The Message from the drop down tab. Too easy. Paul ends his letter with as much passion as he has written with. He uses words we want to hear from those [...]
Don’t have The Message but want to read along? Open a new tab and go to www.biblegateway.com put philippians in the search and choose The Message from the drop down tab. Too easy.Paul summarises his point. Be glad in God! Then he gives a list of what to avoid. He starts with the religious busybodies. [...]
Don’t have The Message but want to read along? Open a new tab and go to www.biblegateway.com put philippians in the search and choose The Message from the drop down tab. Too easy.Paul tells the Philippians what he expects from them. To keep on in obedience (just like Christ did) as when they first believed [...]
Don’t have The Message but want to read along? Open a new tab and go to www.biblegateway.com put philippians in the search and choose The Message from the drop down tab. Too easy.Philippians 2 opens with one of my favourite paragraphs in the NT. Sometimes I would love to stand up and shout this out [...]
Don’t have The Message but want to read along? Open a new tab and go to www.biblegateway.com put philippians in the search and choose The Message from the drop down tab. Too easy.Today I’m reading the rest of Philippians 1. Paul is delighted to report that though he was imprisoned for preaching the gospel it [...]
Don’t have The Message but want to read along? Open a new tab and go to www.biblegateway.com put philippians in the search and choose The Message from the drop down tab. Too easy.I thought it was about time I did some more structured quiet time again. I’m starting with Philippians and I’m reading it in [...]
This week a policeman knocked on the door and said in his policeman manner “the gentleman in number * has been found deceased. Did you know him?”The rest of the afternoon there were police officers and detectives filling the street. It certainly seemed like suspicious circumstances. We didn’t know the man up the street and [...]
