Click for a PDF version Holy Monday Read Matthew 21:18-22 People praising Jesus with singing and tree branches on the road was over, and what a day it had been. This was indeed the Son of David entering the most Holy of cities, Jerusalem. It seemed it could not have been better—but...
Click for a PDF version Monday Read John 13:1-17 On December 9, 1917, General Sir Edmund Allenby, commander of British forces—after capturing the city of Jerusalem during World War I—rode his horse to the Jaffa Gate to enter Jerusalem to accept the surrender of the city from the Ottoman mayor of the...
Click for PDF version Monday Read Genesis 3:1-19; Romans 5:12; 8:19-23 Skeptics’ leading criticisms of Christian beliefs include the challenge, “If God is good, loving, all-powerful and sovereign, why is there so much evil and suffering in the world?” Interestingly, this is a great place to meet unbelievers where they are. Most...
Click for a PDF version Monday Read 1 John 4:7-12; John 13:34-35 Appreciating God’s Amazing Love In his first letter to an unspecified Christian community, John makes several profound statements about the nature of God’s love: love (biblically, “unconditionally wanting nothing but the best for another”) comes from God (1 John 4:7); God...
Click for PDF version Monday Read 1 Peter 2:21 An Example in Obedience “For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in His steps.” (1 Peter 2:21 ESV) One of the most haunting aspects of the Passion Week is when...
Click for a PDF version Monday Read Galatians 2:19-21; Colossians 2:20-23; Luke 11:37-44 “For through the law I died to the law … [and] if righteousness [was attainable] through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.” (Galatians 2: 19-21) The penman, the Apostle Paul, knew much about the legalism—“emphasizing … rules and...
Click for PDF version Monday Read Luke 4:1-13; Romans 3:23-25; Titus 2:13-14 Lent commences this Wednesday, February 14, and concludes on Maundy (“Commandment”) Thursday, three days before Easter Sunday. Glenkirk Church’s associated preaching and devotionals series will consider the primary views of Christ’s atonement, both this week and over the several following weeks. But...
Click for PDF version Monday Read Revelation 22:12-13 Jesus is the beginning, the middle, and the end of our story, and God’s story. His promise to come again is sure and certain, even if the timing is unknown. We can be confident that He will have the final word when He returns to reverse...
Click for PDF version Monday Read Revelation 21:1-5 Life After Life After Death Our sermon passage this week (Revelation 21:22-27) is found in the wider context of the vision of “a new heaven and a new earth” (v. 1). This image reminds us of God’s promises in the Old Testament to make all things...
Click for PDF version Monday Read Revelation 19:6–9 That Thunderous Exclamation! Can you hear it? I can, even now, after so many years. I was a young child seated next to my grandmother in a vast sanctuary when the soaring strains of Handel’s “HAL-LE-LU-JAH Chorus” literally swept us to our feet. No one had...
