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 enemy is puffed up; his desires …
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 will not prove false. Though …
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 don’t much mind a stronger wind …
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 up those more righteous than themselves?14 You …
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 come from afar.They fly like an …
Weekly News – 4th July 2021
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 Reading: “Look at the nations and …
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 do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction …
Daily Update #303
Today’s reading: This is the message that the prophet Habakkuk received from the Lord in a vision.Habakkuk 1:1 (NLT)Today we begin our studies with the Old Testament minor prophet, Habakkuk, which is probably one of the lesser known books of the Bible. It was written around 600 B.C. and consists of only three chapters. The prophecy …