This is the header image
I want to be reading my bible regularly. How do I start?
Reflection on Nehemiah 8 (Week 17, 2026)
Maintaining our spiritual health
Reflection on Mark 7 (Week 15, 2026)
free devotional guides for your quiet time
PATIENCE IN THE FACE OF SUFFERINGJames 5:7-20 “Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.” In pointing to how …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 10”
PRIDE AND ASSOCIATESJames 4:1-5:6 PRIDE AND ASSOCIATES “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill.” The first image that comes to mind reading James 4 is that of a person torn within, with different desires vying to …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 09”
CONFIDENT, BUT NOT TOO CONFIDENTHebrews 10:19-39 “Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 08”
GUARDIANS OF TRUTH2 Timothy 3:1 – 4:8 “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 07”
YOU MAKE ME GLADPsalm 92 “I sing for joy at what your hands have done.” In these days where much of worship in churches consists of singing songs, it would seem that all of us would know in our life and experience what is meant when the Psalmist says that it is good to praise …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 06”
MY GOD IN WHOM I TRUSTPsalm 91 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” In 1 Samuel 13, David was described as “a man after my own heart” by God. In Exodus 33 we are told that “The Lord would speak to Moses …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 05”
THE GOD OF MOSESPsalm 90 “Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.” From what I can remember of Moses and his experiences of God, love, compassion, mercy would be very unlikely words he would choose to describe his God. And out of his experience leading the Jews, he would surely …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 04”
THE GOAL AND OBJECTIVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT1 Corinthians 12:12-31 “Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.” Paul makes it clear that it is the work of the …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 03”
MATTERS OF THE SPIRIT1 Corinthians 12:1-11 “Now about matters of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.” (Translation by Gordon Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians (Revised Edition), New International Commentary on the New Testament.) The Holy Spirit is the third member of the Holy Trinity — God …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 02”
OBEY OR OPPOSE, WORSHIP OR KILLMatthew 1:18-2:23 OBEY OR OPPOSE, WORSHIP OR KILL Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so …
Continue reading “2023 Devotions Week 01”