I suspect that the word most uttered by human beings on planet earth over the last few days, in one language or another, is the word happy, as in ‘Happy New Year!’ As I read in a blog post a couple of days ago, “Ask people what they want out of life, and they’ll answer,…
I love it when I see – or am shown – something in God’s Word that I have read a thousand times without noticing! It is one of the great joys of Bible study. It happened again today, as I continued to read through Don Carson’s devotional notes on M’Cheyne’s Bible reading plan that I…
As a follow-up to my two posts about reading through the Bible in a year and doing a more in-depth study of a Bible book, I was planning on doing something on ‘how to study the Bible for yourself’ when I learned that Peter Mead has just begun a series of blogs on that precise…
In yesterday’s post I made the first of two suggestions as to how get more familiar with the whole of Scripture, namely adopting a reading plan that will help take you through the whole Bible in a year, so that there are no NO GO or NOT GONE parts of Scripture. My second suggestion has…
It still surprises me, and indeed saddens me, when I come across Christians, sometimes of longstanding, who have never read through their whole Bibles. That simply ought not to happen!. I am a great advocate of the principle that when it comes to the Bible there should be no NO GO and no Not GONE…
“And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me”. Now, in our 13th study in this precious prayer we actually come to the first of Jesus’ specific requests for his disciples. Previously I said that there are four requests…
John 17:9-10 “I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. We are now in our twelfth study in this great prayer and we have still not actually come to the first of…
John 17:9 “I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.” As we have seen, there are three sections to the prayer, in each of which, the focus of Jesus‘ praying is different. In verses 1-5 he prays for himself;…
John 17:7-8 “Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.” I so love the…
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.” John 17:6c In these opening verses of the second section of Jesus’ great prayer, before expressing his desires for his disciples, he gives us…