A Word For Your Week: 1 Peter 1:18b-19

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Published: Monday, 12 April 2021 13:00

R - REDEMPTION. 1 Peter chapter 1:18b-19 ‘knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot’. 

After focusing on the cross and the empty tomb over Easter, we now remember the price of our redemption. Galatians 3 :13 ‘Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on the tree’.

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A Word For Your Week: Matthew 28:5-7

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Published: Monday, 05 April 2021 13:00

E - EMPTY TOMB.   ‘But the angel said to the women, ’Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, and as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold he is going before you into Galilee, there you will see him. See I have told you’ Matthew 28:5-7.

Both the birth of Christ and the resurrection of Christ were announced by angels! These two great events were interventions from Heaven.

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A Word For Your Week: Galatians 3:13b

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Published: Monday, 29 March 2021 13:00

T - TREE ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree’ Galatians 3:13b 

John chapter 19 v 17 – 18 ‘and he went out, bearing his own cross, to The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them’ 

‘Three crosses standing side by side, Of broken law a sign, Two for their own transgressions died, The middle one for mine, The middle One the Son of God, Shedding His blood for me, And trusting in that precious blood. I’m safe eternally.’ (Anon) 

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A Word For Your Week: Hosea 13:4

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Published: Monday, 22 March 2021 13:00

S: SAVIOUR 

Hosea ch 13 v 4 But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no Saviour. 

Before Christ was born the angel said in Matthew chapter 1 v21 ‘ She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins’.  Announcing His birth the angel said in Luke ch 2 v11 ‘For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord’.

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