Daily Advent Reflection, 9th December 2020
Psalm 42: 1–5 In Advent 2020, many people will sympathise with this psalmist – someone who feels excluded from meeting others in the sanctuary, fondly … Read more
Psalm 42: 1–5 In Advent 2020, many people will sympathise with this psalmist – someone who feels excluded from meeting others in the sanctuary, fondly … Read more
Ecclesiastes 3: 1–8 President-elect Joe Biden picked out some of the words of Ecclesiastes in the address he made to the American people following the … Read more
Psalm 27: 1–6 At first glance, this reading does not seem to fit Advent, but it begins, ‘The Lord is my light and salvation’, and … Read more
Isaiah 9: 2–7 Have you ever waited for something for ages, only to have it turn out completely differently to what you expected? Perhaps you … Read more
Psalm 18: 1–6 The psalm starts with a powerful assertion of God’s strength and deliverance, but the psalmist has only reached this point of assurance … Read more
Job 29: 1–6 It would be very easy, wouldn’t it, to re-write these verses for these times, as we live through a pandemic – ‘O … Read more
Exodus 13: 17–18, 20–22 Not a day goes by that we are not in need of God’s creative grace. Every morning we need his Spirit … Read more
Genesis 9: 12–17 It’s raining. Properly raining. Not a dull November half-hearted drizzle nor a sharp fresh April shower, but a torrential cloudburst. It’s teeming … Read more
1 December Genesis 1: 1–5 Beginning our journey through Advent, it seems particularly appropriate that, as we prepare again to welcome Jesus, the light of … Read more
As I write I have just read in a newspaper that “We shall have Christmas!”. What do the newspaper mean by this? Well they are … Read more