Podcasts
In Christ
In Romans 8: 1, Paul tells us that “there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”. Writing to the Corinthians: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the ...
Return to the Place of Rest
Recently I woke up feeling anxious. I made myself a coffee and mulled it over, trying to work out where the anxiety was coming from. It didn’t take long. I remembered a conversation the previous day that had left me ...
What would you say to your younger self?
Thanks to everyone who read my article “Things I would say to my younger self” (or listened to the podcast, “4-minute Devotions – the Podcast”)Many of you have written back to say what you would say to that younger version ...
Things I would say to my younger self
I wonder if you have ever wanted to jump into a time machine and try to reverse a decision you have made in the past. Or plant an idea you wish you’d had back then. If you could send a ...
The Lord is…
Who is the Lord to you? I don’t mean that we can make up a picture of Him, some sort of imaginary concept; some abstract thing where one might say, “this is what the idea of God means to me”. I mean, ...
He who began a good work in you
“… being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Phil 1: 6) Harassed by a demon-possessed slave girl, beaten with rods and then ...
Yet not I but through Christ in me
“Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us” (Is 26: 12). At the risk of taking a verse out of context, something strikes me every time I read this line in Isaiah. We ...
God sees what you can become
The disciple John is often described as ‘the one who Jesus loved’. In his own book, he describes himself that way 6 times (for example, in John 13: 23). Most people agree that John was the youngest of the 12 ...
Jonah
The Bible is full of stories of repentance leading to forgiveness and a new start. Take Jonah, for example. God spoke his Word to him. It was very simple – ‘go to Nineveh and preach against it; tell them my ...
