Daily Update #311
Habakkuk 2:9-11 Loud Stones Today we continue through Habakkuk with the second of the five woes in chapter 2, which are part of God’s reply to the prophet’s plea for justice. 9 ‘Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of...
Sermon from the Garden – 11th July 2021
Sermon by Revd. Matt Luff, recorded in the garden at St. John’s Church....
Daily Update #310
Pause: “The Lord reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake. Great is the Lord in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations. Let them praise your great and awesome name – he is holy.”Psalm 99: 1 – 3 Reading: ‘See, the...
Daily Update #309
Today’s Reading: 2 Then the Lord replied: ‘Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and...
Daily Update #308
I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower,and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. Habakkuk 2:1 Wherever, I like to walk towards the sun, or with a breeze in my face. Actually I...
Daily Update #307
Habakkuk 1:12-17 Habakkuk’s Second Complaint 12 Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, we will never die.You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow...
Daily Update #306
Habakkuk 1:7-11The strength and speed of the Babylonian army.Today’s reading continues from last week with a description of the Babylonian army.7 They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honour.8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk.Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen...
Weekly News – 4th July 2021
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Daily Update #305
Pause:Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.’ I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Psalm 16: 1-2, 8 Today’s...
Daily Update #304
Today’s reading: 2 How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why...