Author: John Rowland

Good  everybody, The mail this morning left out the vital introduction to the planned readings for Advent – which begins tomorrow, Sunday 1st December. The readings as sent out may have mystified you unless you knew of the little book

Sunday            1st December              Luke 1:1-4 God wants us to be certain.   Monday           2nd December             Luke 1:5-17 Breaking Heaven’s silence.   Tuesday          3rd December              Luke 1:18-25 Help my unbelief.   Wednesday     4th December              Luke 1:26-38 Yes, Lord.   Thursday         5th

Read 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 v 13.  Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit.

Read 1 Corinthians 10:23 – 11:1 vv 23-24. You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is beneficial. Don’t be concerned for your own

Read 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 V 10. I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of

Read Romans 12:9-21 V 10. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honouring each other. Says Charlie Brown – ‘Of course I love humanity, it’s people I can’t stand.’ Here is one of the great dilemmas of

Christian Community    Walking with others   It is often said that the largest Christian denomination is ‘Those who used to go to Church.’ A multitude of reasons lie behind this, but whatever else might be said it is clear that

Read Revelation 21:1-7 vv 1-3   Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth,….  I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! Writing this has been challenging, not least because

Have you ever wondered: Where is heaven? Who will be there? What will we do all the time? Will my dog/hamster/cat be in heaven? A Dictionary definition reads – “in some religions, the place, sometimes imagined to be in the

Read Acts 1:6-11 We are looking at heaven in these daily devotions and I, like the disciples who were there when it happened, wonder where Jesus went to when he ‘ascended into heaven’ (Acts 1:9 -11)? Was it an actual