Not so quiet reassurance
"The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke...
Everyone will know
"The LORD will be awesome to them when he destroys all the gods of the earth. Distant nations will bow down to him, all of them in their...
Strangely familiar
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, ‘The...
When the ends justify the means
"Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent...
Speaking our language
"How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen?" Habakkuk 1.2 Habakkuk was a contemporary of Jeremiah and therefore lived...
Interpreting history
"... this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel..." Acts 2. 16 Pentecost reminds us that the events of the Bible - and indeed of history...
A new perspective
"The LORD does not look at the things people look at." 1 Samuel 16.7 Looking down from Sgurr nan Gillean at the end of our Cuillin...
Going up
"The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. " Habakkuk 3.19 The...
Judgment and justice
"Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall, for who has not felt your...
Can a leopard change its spots?
"Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!" Nahum 3.1 it seems that Jonah's impact on Nineveh,...