FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT! I said last time that I wanted to write one more blog on healing – pastoral and practical. I stumbled upon this video on YouTube, which I want to share with you instead. It is by someone whose ministry I know and greatly respect – Nicky Gumble! Nicky Gumbel read law at Cambridge, where he also became a Christian. Having practised as a barrister, he felt called to the ministry. He read theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford…
A RECAP This is the last blog in a series of 3, focussing on healing and the work of the Messiah. I have been looking at Isaiah 61,1-3, Luke 4,18, and finish off today with Acts 10,38. I wrote a blog in December 2019 entitled “The Good Works of Acts 10,38”, which you can access here https://bibleandfaith.com/the-good-works-of-acts-1038/. This will be a continuation of that blog. The idea I wanted to communicate in my last text “What is the Gospel?”, is…
INTRODUCTION With my last blog, I entered the general area of healing! We looked at Isa. 61,1-3, and the role of the Messiah. Today I want to continue, by looking at Luke 4,18. And I will end with a later blog on Acts 10,38. I am thus holding these three scriptures together as summarising the ministry of Jesus: Isaiah 61,1-3, Lk. 4,18 and Acts 10,38. But before I get onto Luke 4,18, I need to clear the way for some…
Hi there! I don’t know what it is like to be you as I write my blog this morning. I do know that God loves you! There is grace and mercy from God the Father through Jesus Christ for you today – whatever your life looks like – whoever you are! I feel in my heart to write this blog to you who are living through deep and prolonged stress and turmoil in your life. If you are able to…
In Peter’s speech in Cornelius’s house found in Acts 10, we find this summary of Jesus ministry, starting from verse 37: “you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.” Acts 10,37-38 I read “healing all those who were oppressed…