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Matthew Chapter 2 - Bible Study & Devotional

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Matthew Chapter 1 - Bible Study & Devotional

David was the father of Solomon by Bathsheba who had been the wife of Uriah. ⁷ Solomon was the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa. ⁸ Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah. ⁹ Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah. ¹⁰ Hezekiah was the father...

Hope of Salvation for Unsaved Family Members

There is a particular kind of grief that belongs to believers alone: watching someone you love live as though God does not exist. A spouse who once knelt beside you in prayer, now dismissive. Children who were baptised, who memorised Scripture, who sang in church, now absent from anything resembling faith. Family members you love deeply, whose eternal destiny you cannot see and cannot control. If...

Overcoming fear and anxiety with faith

There is a command in the Bible that appears more often than almost any other: "Do not be afraid." Jesus says it. Angels say it on arrival. God says it to Abraham, to Hagar, to Moses, to Joshua, to Elijah. It appears in some form over three hundred times across the pages of Scripture. That frequency is not accidental. It is the frequency of a God who knows His people well, who knows that fear is o...

Deepening Our Understanding of Love in the Bible

The word "love" appears more than five hundred times across the pages of Scripture, and it sits at the centre of everything the Bible says about God, about human beings, and about how the two are meant to relate to each other. Jesus summarises the entire law in terms of love. John declares that God is love, not merely that He is loving. Paul places love above faith and hope as the greatest of the...

The Power of Praise and Worship

Ask most Christians what worship is and they will describe a moment: a song that broke them open, a Sunday morning when the music stopped and the room went still, a private morning of prayer that felt genuinely like contact with the living God. These are real experiences and they matter. But if worship is only a feeling we reach for in the right conditions, it is far smaller than what the Bible ac...

Salvation in Christianity: A Deeper Understanding (with Action Steps)

The word "salvation" can start to sound like church vocabulary, a word used so often it loses its weight. But the concept it names is the single most significant claim Christianity makes. It is the answer to the deepest problem human beings face, accomplished at enormous cost, offered as a gift, and carrying consequences that extend beyond this life into eternity. It is worth taking the time to un...

The Impact of Prayer from a Christian Perspective: An In-Depth Exploration

Most people have prayed, or tried to. There is something in human beings that reaches toward the unseen at moments of great need or great wonder, something that looks remarkably like prayer even when it doesn't use that word. But for Christians, prayer is not simply an instinct or a cultural habit. It is, according to Scripture, genuine communication with the God who made the universe and who has...

The Meaning and Significance of Baptism

Almost every Christian you ask has a story about baptism. For some it was a moment of tears and public joy, surrounded by people who knew them. For others it was quiet, private, almost trembling. For some it happened in infancy, surrounded by a faith community making promises on their behalf. And for a few, baptism still lies ahead, a step not yet taken.

Understanding the fruits of the Spirit and how to cultivate them

There is a version of the Christian life that looks exhausting from the outside, and feels even more so from the inside. It is the version where you are constantly trying to be more loving, more patient, more gentle, more self-controlled. Where growth means gritting your teeth harder and trying to be a better person. Where every failure is another reminder that you are not measuring up.