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January Poetry

  • 5 April 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Deuteronomy Chapter 5: Verses 2-6 (NIV-UK) The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.  It was not with our ancestors that the Lord made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today. The Lord spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the…

  • 4 April 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Luke Chapter 10: Verses 36-37 (NIV-UK) ‘Which of these three do you think was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?’  The expert in the law replied, ‘The one who had mercy on him.’ Jesus told him, ‘Go and do likewise.’ An expert in the law approached Jesus to question Him…

  • 3 April 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Luke Chapter 10: Verses 1-2 (NIV-UK) After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Luke Chapter 10: Verse 17 (NIV-UK) The seventy-two returned with joy and said, ‘Lord, even the…

  • 2 April 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Luke Chapter 9: Verses 51-56 (NIV-UK) As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem.  When…

  • 1 April 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Luke Chapter 9: Verses 18-21 (NIV-UK) Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, ‘Who do the crowds say I am?’  They replied, ‘Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life.’ ‘But…

  • 31 March 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Luke Chapter 8: Verses 43-48 (NIV-UK)  And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. ‘Who touched me?’ Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, ‘Master, the…

  • 30 March 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Luke Chapter 8: 24-27 (NIV-UK) When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs.  When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top…

  • 29 March 2024 -What have I learned today?

    Luke Chapter 8:1-3 (NIV-UK) After this, Jesus travelled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife…

  • 28 March 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Luke Chapter 7: Verses 36-46 (NIV-UK)  When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar…

  • 27 March 2024 – What have I learned today?

    Luke Chapter 7: Verses 29-35 (NLT) When they heard this, all the people—even the tax collectors—agreed that God’s way was right, for they had been baptized by John.  But the Pharisees and experts in religious law rejected God’s plan for them, for they had refused John’s baptism.“To what can I compare the people of this generation?” Jesus asked. “How…