Author: Alasdair Paine

Dear Friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that…

Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done. Psalm 105:1 NIV To many people, God is distant, uninvolved with the world,…

For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed.  He has given proof of this to everyone by raising…

The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. Titus 1:5…

So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight - why the bush does not burn up.” Exodus 3:3 NIV Many of us at church small groups…

A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends. Proverbs 16:28 NIV Last week I read a short book on a subject I’d never read a book…

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, ‘This is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life…

Here is a trustworthy saying: whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. 1 Timothy 3:1 NIV In December 1926, a 27-year-old doctor, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, left a London…

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, ‘Come with me by yourselves to a…

Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Mark 10:48 NIV The gospels contain a number…