Author: John Rowland

Read 2 Timothy 2:17-18 They have left the path of truth Route planning and finding is one of the most basic skills of any walker or climber let alone of a general traveller. With the advent of the internet, and

Read Acts 15:36-41 as a result, their faith has been shipwrecked.  We thought about this image of shipwreck in our reading on Monday, but not all shipwrecks are a total disaster! Paul survived several in the course of his travels.

Read Matthew 27:11-24 some people have deliberately violated their consciences I’m sure you have at different times been offered advice; maybe you set out asking for advice, or perhaps it came unsolicited and somewhat hard to take aboard. Your conscience

Read Hebrews 10:19-25 and keep your conscience clear. Hard to define conscience isn’t it. But we all recognise our own conscience when it shouts a warning to us. Perhaps you remember getting to the end of a day saying to

Cling to faith   I well remember talking with a man who had faithfully served God as a Pastor only to discover that he was struggling painfully with faith. The only thing he could say with honesty was that he

Read Romans 1:8-17 v 12  I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength to do his work. He considered me trustworthy and appointed me to serve him,  Paul was made conscious of his call to serve God

Read Acts 26:19-29 v 16   But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners. Then others will realize that they, too, can believe

Read   Acts 9:10-19 v 15   This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.  There are some people who constantly put themselves down.

Read Acts 9:1-9 v 13. In my insolence, I persecuted his people. But God had mercy on me because I did it in ignorance and unbelief.  Paul attributes his antagonism against Christians to unbelief and ignorance. We read here in

Mercy me!   Paul’s Gratitude for God’s Mercy   We are all people with a past! Sometimes we are proud (in a good way) of the things we have done; while at other times we feel we have been failures and