Luke 2 v 13 - 20
The last day of Advent and today we look at the remaining few scriptural verses which refer to the birth story. We may ask: 'Where did...
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- Dec 23, 2020
Luke 2 v 8 - 12
Shepherds were a despised group of people amongst God-fearing Jews. However much they tried, they could never have kept the details of...
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- Dec 22, 2020
Luke 2 v 1 - 7
We come to what are the core verses for our modern-day interpretation of the Nativity. But we notice that there is no record of a kindly...
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- Dec 21, 2020
Luke 1 v 39 - 56
So, not just angelic appearances, but the power of the Holy Spirit descending on the central characters! Elizabeth is filled in...
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- Dec 20, 2020
Luke 1 v 26 - 38
It is important to recognise what some translations will interpret verse 27 as 'engaged', but would have been something different to...
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- Dec 19, 2020
Luke 1 v 5 -25
Luke begins his thorough recording of Christ's birth by writing of Zechariah the Priest. Remind yourself as you read this story that the...
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- Dec 18, 2020
Introducing the gospel of Luke, Luke 1 v 1 - 4
It is very helpful that Luke introduces his Gospel by giving the reasons why he decided to write it. He mentions that many others have...
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- Dec 17, 2020
Matthew 2 v 13 - 23
Here we have a major divergence from Luke's recording of the birth and early life of Jesus, which we will be studying from tomorrow. It...
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- Dec 16, 2020
Matthew 2 v 1 - 12
It may seem surprising that there is no birth narrative in Matthew. He tells us where Jesus is born, when He was born-in the reign of...
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- Dec 15, 2020
Matthew 1 v 22 - 25
The Gospel of Matthew contains many passages which demonstrate that Old Testament prophecy was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Isaiah the...
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- Dec 14, 2020
Matthew 1 v 20 - 21
So lots of angelic activity around this time! We can read in Luke's Gospel of the appearance of an angel to Zechariah, who will become...
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- Dec 13, 2020
Matthew 1 v 18 - 19
Simple words which we know so well, yet with such explosive import! Never before had anyone throughout human history become pregnant by...
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- Dec 12, 2020
Matthew 1 v 7 - 17
I received a couple of emails in response to my blog yesterday. One rightly pointed out that it was David (not Solomon!) who slept with...
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- Dec 11, 2020
Matthew 1 v 1 - 6
The list of names which generally are right at the start of some books of the Bible may be one of the things that, if you are like me,...
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- Dec 10, 2020
Introduction to Matthew
We have read a portion of the opening chapter of the Gospel of John which gave us the 'vast ranges' of the coming of Christ and now we...
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- Dec 9, 2020
John 1 v 16 - 18
Life before Jesus for the Jew was governed by the Law. The first five books of the Old Testament-the Torah-told you how you were to live...
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- Dec 8, 2020
John 1 v 14 - 15
Alongside John 3 v 16, verse 14 is probably the greatest single verse in the Bible. We have noted that John has already presented the...
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- Dec 7, 2020
John 1 v 10 - 13
The Ancient Greeks believed that where there is order there is a mind behind it. On a human level we aspire to live as well-balanced...
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- Dec 6, 2020
John 1 v 6 - 9
John the Baptist is almost the invisible man in the story of Jesus. John the apostle sought to put him in his rightful place. He was one...
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- Dec 5, 2020
John 1 v 3 - 5
So the Word was not just present at Creation, but central to the whole act. Everything went through Him. In the beginning there was God. ...
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