Daily Update #170

Today’s Readings: Revelation 20: 1 – 4;  Psalm 84: 1 – 6 Luke 21: 29 – 33 : When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling.  “It is written,” he said to them, “My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den …

Daily Update #169

Pause: Know that the Lord is God.  It is he who made us, and were are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.  Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.  For the Lord is good and his love endures for ever; …

Daily Update #167

Today’s Readings – Revelation 14:14-19.    Psalm 96.     Luke 21:5-11.  Jesus’ listeners must have been shaken by what He said in response to some admiring comments made about the beauty of the temple. It was “adorned with gifts for God” (Luke 21:5) but Jesus says that the temple will be destroyed. He responds to their questions about when this would …

Daily Update #166

Let’s ascend the mountainToday’s psalm is one of my favourites. I think it is because it reminds me of a famous sermon given by Ern Baxter, called ‘Thy Kingdom Come’. The lectionary only tantalises us with the first six verses, but that gives us plenty to consider today.This Psalm of David was probably composed to …