2 Corinthians 9:10 NLT 'For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.' Last year, my wife, Jayne, and I w...
2 Peter 1:3 NLT 'By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvellous glory and excellence.' It is remarkable...
John 6:34-35 NLT “Sir,” they said, “give us that bread every day.” Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” One morning I passed a new bakery in Portsmouth....
Acts 2:14 NLT Then Peter stepped forward with the eleven other apostles and shouted to the crowd, “Listen carefully, all of you, fellow Jews and residents of Jerusalem! Make no mistake about this.” A band of disheartened and frightened disciples, who...
Acts 1:14 NLT 'They all met together and were constantly united in prayer, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, several other women, and the brothers of Jesus.' On Ascension Day you are invited to join thousands of others prepare for a Novena of pray...
Acts 1:8 NLT 'But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere – in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.' Like a compass needle locates...
Acts 1:3 NLT 'During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.' Thursday 21 May 2020 is Asc...
Acts 1:6 NLT So when the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking him, “Lord, has the time come for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?” How many times have you, believing you understood scripture, formed an opinion about what you and other...
Matthew 5:3 NLT 'God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.' Blessing is most easily associated with happiness. Some of the translations of the scripture replace the word “Blessed” for “Happy”...
Psalm 34:8-9 NLT 'Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him! Fear the Lord, you his godly people, for those who fear him will have all they need.' I enjoy cooking, working with taste, texture and colour for bot...
Jeremiah 17:8 NLT 'They are like trees planted along a river-bank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.'...
Ephesians 1:4-5 NLT 'Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he w...
Ephesians 1:3 NLT 'All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.' It has taken me too many years to unravel what being united to Jesu...
2 Corinthians 12:9 NLT Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. On a childhood holiday, I once found a lobster pot...
Romans 12:1 NLT 'And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice – the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.' ‘Sa...
