Topic: true happiness

* God calls us to be a holy people. “The Song of the Vineyard” (Isaiah 5:1-7) is a call to holiness. God’s people are to be “the garden of His delight” (Isaiah 5:7).

Chapter 3 Solomon was a complicated man. We wonder what was most important to him - his alliances with the world or his allegiance to the Lord, 'building his own house' or...

1:1-2:26- Without Christ. life is empty. With Him, everything changes. He fills our life with God’s blessing. With Him, we have more than life ‘under the sun’.

1:1-2:26- Without Christ. life is empty. With Him, everything changes. He fills our life with God’s blessing. With Him, we have more than life ‘under the sun’.

16:1-17- ‘Wisdom is better than gold... understanding is to be chosen rather than silver’ (16). What is wisdom? In 1 Corinthians 1:30, we learn that Jesus Christ is Wisdom.

In providing notes, covering the whole of Scripture, I seek to provide solid, substantial and spiritual teaching.

Chapters 27-28 There is no privilege without responsibility. Israel was privileged: God was giving them 'a land flowing with milk and honey'.

51:1-33- ‘Lift up a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations!’ (27). God calls us to be His witnesses.

Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost; Deuteronomy 34:1-12; Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17 or Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18; Psalm 1; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8; Matthew 22:34-46 “The eternal God is...

On reading the book of Leviticus, we are struck by the strangeness of it all. It all seems so different from anything we have ever known.

verses 1-2 Here, we have the introduction to ‘the Sermon on the Mount’(chs 5-7). Reference is made to both ‘the disciples’ and ‘the crowds’.

In providing notes, covering the whole of Scripture, I seek to provide solid, substantial and spiritual teaching.

John 2:1-12 The miracle of turning water into wine is described in John 2:11 as "the first of His signs.