Look at verse 22. This begins with the Lord speaking to Moses. This is the Son, who is always the mediator and the representative of the Father. He is the one who is the Word of God with a capital W. It is he, therefore, who speaks to Moses. The…

God the Father loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son. There’s a promise in John 3:16: “Whoever believes in Jesus shall not perish, but will have eternal life.” Why not choose eternal life instead of eternal hell? Or John 3:17— why not remember that…

Look at verse 4. The writer to the Hebrews says, “Struggle against sin; you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.” He’s just been telling them about Jesus. Jesus endured opposition from cities up to the point of shedding his blood on the cross. “He is…

That’s why you have all these pictures in the Bible of what baptism is like. It’s like walking into the Red Sea, chased by your enemies, and coming out the other side of life with your enemies defeated. It’s like walking into a flooded earth but being rescued in the…

In the garden of Eden, the Lord showed us that he was willing to dwell with us. But then we sinned, and we were cast out of his presence; so much so that there was judgement-fire cutting us off from him. That has actually been played out in the whole…

Jesus says, “your sins are forgiven”. Perhaps you think “Only God can forgive sin, and Jesus is only a man.” Well, he’s challenging your perception of what authority he has. Jesus has authority to clear out the temple, and he has the authority to forgive sins, because he is Lord…

Acts 14:1— ‘At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue.’ This had been their habit; this was the way that they did mission in the context where there were Jewish people around, and at this time, no church was established in many places. They appealed to…

Even if you just look at the first verse of most of the books in the New Testament, you’ll see this obsession with the crucified Christ. First of all Christ is there, usually in the first verse—  Matthew 1:1, ‘Jesus Christ’ Mark 1:1, ‘Jesus Christ’ John 1:1, ‘the Word [who…

Acts 10:9— ‘Peter had gone up onto the roof to pray.’ Now here’s a striking thing… the language that Luke chooses to use for Peter going up onto the roof is the language that’s used in the Old Testament of pagan worshippers in the nations, who go up onto their…

Unclean animals were predators, they had claws, but for a clean animal, they had gentle split hooves. What’s more, for a predator, there was death in the mouth too, but for a clean animal, there was the gentle pursuit of vegetables and grass, ruminated in the digestive system—they chew the…