Devotions
Daily devotionals to help you connect.
Rev Gav | May 26
26th May 2025
It makes me wonder — with a sense of shock — that any religious person could kill someone and think that by doing so they…
Rev Gav | May 25
25th May 2025
Today’s Daily Bread is an abridged version of this week’s Insight. I love this story — a story of the Spirit prompting and leading Paul…
Rev Gav | May 24
24th May 2025
A canticle is a Bible text that is recited in church worship (not including the psalms as they are nearly all recited in church worship)…
Rev Gav | May 23
23rd May 2025
This Psalm is attributed to King David. Now, there’s a legend — and I must stress that it is a legend — that David played…
Rev Gav | May 22
22nd May 2025
As I read this passage, it occurred to me that I’m not sure I ever consider God as having joy and being, fundamentally, joyful. I…
Rev Gav | May 21
21st May 2025
It is tempting to look back on the early Church through rose-tinted spectacles, but the truth is that the spread of Christianity was messy and…
Rev Gav | May 20
20th May 2025
We long for peace in our hearts don’t we? I know I do — that ‘inner peace’ and sense of contentment where we feel at…
Rev Gav | May 19
19th May 2025
Our relationship with God is exactly that — a relationship — and it’s a relationship of mutual love. From our side of the relationship, all…
Rev Gav | May 18
18th May 2025
When I was a curate, a woman in the congregation approached me to ask me a question. She was quite anxious because she read in…
Rev Gav | May 17
17th May 2025
In one sense, there is a paradox or mystery surrounding the oneness Jesus describes as having with his Father. How can two things be also…
Rev Gav | May 16
16th May 2025
Last week I was asked if it was sinful to not honour one’s mother and father, and the questioner cited the example where a parent…
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