Author: nickjones2011

Sometimes people say cruel things. As if living with a long term disability is not hard enough, sometimes people will say that the disability must be as a result of some unconfessed sin. If you could just dig deep enough and find it and confess it, all would be well. How cruel to say such…

The evenings are drawing in, and the mornings are not much better! How do you cope with all the darkness? I’m not sure of anyone who prefers the dark evenings to the long summer light ones. How strange that at this time of year (halloween), people will in some strange way celebrate darkness instead of…

Where do you long to be? Perhaps when you are on a long journey in the dark, on twisty roads, you just long to be safely home. Maybe you long to be with loved ones. In Psalm 84, the psalmist doesn’t hide where he wants to be. He longs to be with the LORD almighty,…

Ezekiel 16 is one of the most shocking and beautiful chapters in the Bible. It is shocking for it shows us just how awful our sin is, but it is beautiful as we see God’s tender care for His people and His wonderful promises for the future. God compares His people to an adulterous people.…

Are you ever likely to forget God’s steadfast love? Maybe it’s when things are hard, and you wonder “how can a loving God allow this?” Perhaps with all God’s people went through in exile, they were tempted to question God’s love. We have an enemy that from the beginning has been getting people to question…

God has given some wonderful promises in Ezekiel 11 that bring great joy! Although things look very bleak, the glory of the Lord has departed from, the temple (Ezekiel 10), and many of the people have been carried off into exile, with further destruction to come. It is so bad that Ezekiel cries out to…

There seem to be lots of ideas as to what it means to be born again. Some see it as an optional extra, as in there are the ordinary Christians and the born again types. In John 3, one of the most religious men of Israel comes to see Jesus, surely if anyone is right…

Sometimes we may think our sin is not that serious. Maybe we compare ourselves to others and we think, we’re not too bad. The prophet Ezekiel shows the seriousness of sin and the awful consequences for Israel for the rebellion. Ezekiel has to act out what is happening. He makes a model of the city…

How often do you wonder at the fact that God became a man?! The gospel of John helps us to see something of the enormity of the incarnation. He begins in eternity past, reminding us that God the Son has always existed, He was there in the beginning with God the Father and God the…