Bible In One Year 2011

The Beginning and the End

Saturday, 31 December 2011 - 6 comments

‘What will it be like in heaven? What will our heavenly bodies look like? Will we be able to fly? Will we be sexless? Will we be able to see the Garden of Eden? Will we recognise family and friends...

The Bride

Friday, 30 December 2011 - 1 comments

I do get very emotional at weddings. When I am conducting weddings, as the vicar, I often find tears of emotion pouring down my face. When I was conducting the marriage of my goddaughter, her father...

Reigning With Christ

Thursday, 29 December 2011 - 1 comments

Next year we will be celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – a reign of sixty years. But according to the New Testament, every Christian reigns for far, far longer than that.

God’s purpose and...

The Covenant of Love

Wednesday, 28 December 2011 - 0 comments

A year ago my daughter got married. It was a love-filled occasion. In their overflowing love for each other, she and her husband promised exclusive loyalty. They made a covenant of love.

The...

Hallelujah

Tuesday, 27 December 2011 - 0 comments

During the last year, 35.8 million people have watched a youtube clip of unsuspecting shoppers who got a surprise while eating their lunch. A young woman, seemingly enjoying her lunch in a food court,...

Money Matters

Monday, 26 December 2011 - 1 comments

The day after Christmas, many of us may feel rather out of pocket. But this issue does not just arise around Christmas time. Most of us have to deal with money in some way every day of our lives. But...

Happy Christmas

Sunday, 25 December 2011 - 1 comments

Today we celebrate the ‘central event in the history of the earth, the very thing the whole story has been about’ (C.S. Lewis). We celebrate the birth of Jesus, who is ‘Lord of lords and King of kings’ (...

Genuine Repentance

Saturday, 24 December 2011 - 0 comments

Ebenezer Scrooge, the central character in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, was a terrible, mean old businessman who, when shown his past, present and future, repents.

Dickens captures the...

Power in Hope

Friday, 23 December 2011 - 0 comments

In the Spring of 2005, a young man named Clark, a close friend of Bill Hybels’ son, died in a car crash. Bill Hybels recalls a moment at the funeral: ‘As the coffin was lowered into the grave, suddenly,...

Purity and Power

Thursday, 22 December 2011 - 1 comments

I was seated just behind the orchestra and in front of the choir at our recent carol services. There were thirty-eight people in the orchestra and eighty in the choir – all volunteers and members of the...