Fruit: It’s What He Expects

It’s what you expect. The way people talk about others says much about their judgement of them. A scandal emerges about an individual, and the buzz is that you’d expect that from that individual. A crime occurs, and an individual is “brought in for questioning”, and the message goes around that you’d expect that from […]

For 40 Days – Day 38: I Send You: Concepts

Key Episode Scripture: Luke 24 and Acts 1-2 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. (Acts 1:8 ESVUK) The Father desired a family. The Son was sent to establish the brethren. The Spirit was […]

For 40 Days – Day 30: Doomsday: Consequences

Key Episode Scripture: Jonah 1-4 And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?” (Jonah 4:4 ESVUK) When the people of Nineveh received the Doomsday message – God would wipe them out in 40 days – they took it seriously and repented. The messenger, however, was unhappy about God’s relenting and complained to God, showing hypocrisy […]

For 40 Days – Day 29: Doomsday: Conclusions

Key Episode Scripture: Jonah 1-4 Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.” (Jonah 1:14 ESVUK) It’s about a guy who stays in a whale for three days, isn’t it? That’s a very crude […]

For 40 Days – Day 28: Doomsday: Concepts

Key Episode Scripture: Jonah 1-4 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. (Jonah 3:10 ESVUK) The book of Jonah covers one episode in the life of the prophet. The episode, among […]

For 40 Days – Day 27: Doomsday: Content

Key Episode Scripture: Jonah 1-4 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows. (Jonah 1:15-16 ESVUK) Nineveh was 40 Days from Doomsday. This was the message that Jonah was tasked with communicating to them. […]

For 40 Days – Day 23: Man’s End: Concepts

Key Episode Scripture: 1 Kings chapters 18 and 19 and 2 Kings chapter 2 “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat […]

For 40 Days – Day 20: Intimidation: Consequences

Key Episode Scripture: 1 Samuel chapters 16-18 Then the princes of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed. (1 Samuel 18:30 ESVUK) David vs Goliath. If you want an immediately recognisable bible story, […]

For 40 Days – Day 3: The Clean Slate Initiative: Concepts

Key Episode Scripture: Genesis chapters 6-9 For in seven days, I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. (Genesis 7:4-5 ESVUK) We’ve considered the context of this […]

JJ 24 #34: A Matter of Trust

Trust. I keep returning to this word and value it more and more with each passing day. I don’t dismiss the term “love,” and I understand why people get so hung up on it. To me, though, trust is a more important term. I hear people give away the word love cheaply when they say […]