Author: John Rowland

Read 2 Corinthians 8:1-15 vv 3-4   For I can testify that they gave not only what they could afford, but far more. And they did it of their own free will.  They begged us again and again for the privilege

Good morning everybody! Next Wednesday, 26th February, is Ash Wednesday – the start of Lent. The pattern of Daily Readings will be different throughout Lent, and there are choices you can make about the readings you receive, and how you

Read John 13:31-38 v 35  Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.” Let us take heed that this well-known Christian grace is not merely a notion in our heads, but a practice

Read John 13:18-30 v 21  Now Jesus was deeply troubled, and he exclaimed, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me!” The whole length and breadth and depth of our Master’s troubles during His earthly ministry are

Read John 13:12-17 v 15.  I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you. We notice next in this passage the plain practical lesson which lies upon its surface. Humility is evidently one part

Read John 13:6-11 v 7.  Jesus replied, “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.” Let us gather from Peter’s conduct that a man may have plenty of faith and love, and yet be sadly destitute

Jesus washes the disciples’ feet.   John 13   This week we are going to focus on one incident in Jesus’ life. Jesus deliberately chose to wash the disciples’ feet – a task only the lowest of the servants would be

Read Galatians 5:22-23 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. It seems to me that mercy encompasses all the fruit of the Spirit brought together

Read Jeremiah 38:1-13 V 7  But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an important court official, heard that Jeremiah was in the cistern. If you read these notes regularly you might just have got the idea that Jeremiah is one of my favourite

Read Micah 6:6-8 v 8    …. to love mercy How often we tend to think of the Old Testament as full of bloodthirsty tales of God’s vengeance on Godless nations; so much so that the word ‘Mercy’ rarely figures in