Jill Partis
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Happy Christmas!
For God so loved the world that He sent His only Son… (John 3:16). As we celebrate the birth of Jesus today we are reminded that the baby in the cradle was Emmanuel, God with us. We wish you every blessing as we celebrate the birth of our Saviour. With love from John and Jill.
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Love Came Down
Luke 2:1-20 In due season the time came for Mary’s baby to be born. An extraordinary baby – God’s own Son – slipped into the world in a very ordinary way. This was an event like no other; God Himself had taken on human form and come into the world to live as one of
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She said “Yes”
Luke 1:26-38This well-known passage of scripture tells how the angel Gabriel appeared to a young woman in an obscure little town in Galilee to announce some earth-shattering news. God had chosen her to give birth to, and to raise His Son, the Messiah – the One for whom the nation of Israel had been waiting
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The Call to Holiness
Luke 1:5-23 The baby who would be born to Zechariah and Elizabeth had a God-given mission to fulfil; the angel said that John would “make ready a people prepared for the Lord”. Before the Lord sent the long-promised Messiah into the world He was sending a forerunner to prepare the way for Him, just as
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Topical Bible Study 1: Belief
Smith Wigglesworth once said, “If you would believe half as much as you ask, you would receive.” I set out to look at what the Bible has to say about believing. Healing I started with the gospels and it soon became apparent that Jesus looked for belief in those who came to Him for healing.
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Luke 1:5-23 The God Who Hears
Come with me, if you will, to the land of Israel in the year 4BC or thereabouts. God’s chosen people were not in a good place at this time. Their land was occupied by the Romans and there was a puppet king on the throne who was not even a Jew. To make matters worse,
