Thursday: 16th August, 2018 Reference text: Matthew 18:21-19:1 Matthew 18:23 For this reason, the kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. How much should one be allowed to borrow from a bank? Every financial institution takes into account a person's annual salary, their credit rating,... Continue Reading →

Wednesday: 15th August, 2018 Reference text: Revelation 11:19,12:1-6,10 Revelation 12:4b and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to delivered, to devour her child as soon as it was born. Liverpool FC in recent years have been known to play a brand of football characterised by 'swarming' opposition in the opening stages of... Continue Reading →

Tuesday: 14th August, 2018 Reference text: Matthew 18:1-5,18,12-14 Matthew 18:12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? As seen in the ever popular words of... Continue Reading →

Monday: 13th August, 2018 Reference text: Psalm 148 Psalms 148:6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass. In what many describe as the hottest summer on record in the UK, I recall seeing aerial images of parks before and during this summer, with sharp... Continue Reading →

Sunday: 12th August, 2018 Reference text : 1 Kings 19:4-8 1 Kings 19:7 Then the angel of the LORD came again and touched him and said, "Get up and eat some more, or the journey ahead will be too much for you." In knockout football, players are conditioned to be able to play at least... Continue Reading →

Saturday : 11th August, 2018 Reference text: Matthew 17:14-20 Matthew 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? Today's Gospel shows the disciples of Jesus doing something many of us often shy away from: "seeking to find the actual reasons behind our inability to do something".... Continue Reading →

Friday: 10th August, 2018 Reference text: 2 Corinthians 9:6-10 2 Corinthians 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Barring any unexpected happenings, the 'Principles of sowing and reaping' will always remain the same and apply to each of us in... Continue Reading →

Thursday, 9th August , 2018 Reference text: Matthew 16:13-23 Matthew 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Among the many questions one can be asked during a job interview is: 'how would your close friends describe you?' A harmless question? probably... but it is one that can put you in... Continue Reading →

Wednesday: 8th August, 2018 i Reference text: Matthew 15:21-28 Matthew 15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. In desperate times, people do desperate things: they take decisions they may never have intended to and do things they never... Continue Reading →