Devotions
Daily devotionals to help you connect.
Rev Gav | May 6
6th May 2025
In this passage, Jesus again asserts that if we want to find life, then we find it in him. The Israelites were wandering in the…
Rev Gav | May 5
5th May 2025
This is a continuation of yesterday’s story (see my Insight) — where Jesus had appeared to his disciples, made them breakfast, and re-instituted Peter, and…
Rev Gav | May 4
4th May 2025
The Book of Revelation or the Revelation of John is a wonderful book written in an ancient ‘apocalyptic’ style of writing. It’s full of imagery…
Rev Gav | May 3
3rd May 2025
This short narrative found in John’s gospel is powerfully symbolic in both words and action. Why did Jesus choose to walk over the rough waters…
Rev Gav | May 2
2nd May 2025
I like to think that Paul, writing this letter, quoted song lyrics (as we pastors often do). Lots of Bibles render the second half of…
Rev Gav | May 1
1st May 2025
This passage from John’s gospel is often chosen to be read at funerals, and there is something wonderfully comforting and reassuring about Jesus’ words to…
Rev Gav | Apr 30
30th April 2025
The opposite of death is life, and eternal life means exactly that — life in all its fullness in the here and now and forever….
Rev Gav | Apr 29
29th April 2025
In this passage, Paul describes what theologians later called ‘the fivefold ministry’ of Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds, and Teachers (APEST). Apostles or ‘sent ones’ think…
Rev Gav | Apr 28
28th April 2025
When Jesus talks about being in the world but not belonging to it, he is not talking about us not belonging to ‘planet earth’ but…
Rev Gav | Apr 27
27th April 2025
‘Obedience to God’ put Peter and the other apostles in direct conflict with the Jewish authorities, but they had a choice. They could have kept…
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