Genesis 19v12-29 Consider the following from the passage: We need to cry out to God for the sins of mankind. We must not look back at worldly pleasures. Remember the saving protection given to Lot. In Christ, the Lord will preserve us, being faithful to His Word and Covenant.
2 Corinthians 2v12-17 When I came to Troas to preach the Gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. But thanks be to…
Genesis 19v1-11 In this Scripture passage we see angels and abominations. The abominations are not demons, but people. Remember:a. God hates evil and responds to it directly.b. Recognise God’s help.c. Don’t try to help God.
2 Corinthians 2v5-11 Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure–not to put it too severely–to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by…
Isaiah 28v9-13 “To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.” For by people of strange lips…
2 Corinthians 2v1-4 For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those…
Selected Scriptures To understand the Good News we must first understand the Bad News, namely that humankind sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Why are there so much pain and brokenness about us? As Christians we answer: ‘It was caused by the Fall’. We cannot fix this, but need someone bigger than…
Genesis 18 Introduction We see Abraham in the presence of God, but he is seeing three men.This chapter emphasizes Abraham’s hospitality and the revelation of God’s plan in relation to Abraham’s future and the future of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham showed hospitality to three men – believed by many to be a theophany, one of…
2 Corinthians 1:15-24 Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace. I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea. Was…
Isaiah 5:18-23 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes, who say: “Let Him be quick, let Him speed His work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!”Woe…