31st August 2026

The Madness of The Gospel

"We preach Christ crucified . . .”

1 Corinthians 1:23

Today's Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:20-25.

One of the great needs in the church today is for every Christian to become enthusiastic about their faith in Jesus Christ. This is the essence of vital spiritual experience. The apostles had been with Christ, and they could not help but testify to that which they had seen and heard. Every Christian should become an ambassador of Christ with the splendid abandon of Francis of Assisi. Every Christian should be so intoxicated with Christ and so filled with holy fervour that nothing could ever quench his ardour. The Gospel that Paul preached seemed madness to the world of his day (v 18). Let us have this madness! Let us capture some of the magnificent obsession that these early Christians had! Let us go forth as men and women filled with the Spirit of God!

Prayer: Create in me, Father, the abandonment to reach out unreservedly with the message of Your love. In the name of You Son, I ask. Amen.

30th August 2026

Never Ending Story

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday

and today and forever.” 

Hebrews 13:8

Reading: Hebrews 12:1–3.

Our lives are filled with changing seasons. People change, circumstances shift, and what once seemed certain can suddenly feel uncertain. Yet there is one story that never ends and never changes—the story of God’s love and faithfulness.

Jesus was there yesterday, He is with us today, and He will remain with us tomorrow. His promises do not expire, His grace does not run dry, and His love does not have an ending. When we cannot see what lies ahead, we can trust the One who already holds tomorrow.

Your story may have difficult chapters, but God is not finished writing. What looks like an ending may simply be the beginning of something new in His hands.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You for being constant in a changing world. Help me trust You with every chapter of my life, knowing that Your story of love and grace never ends. Amen.

29th August 2026

Welcoming Foreigners

"[God] defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow,

and loves the foreigner. ”

Matthew 4:20

Today's Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 10:17-20.

In 2021, as thousands of Ukrainian women and children arrived at Berlin’s railway station fleeing war, they were met with a surprise—German families holding up handmade signs offering refuge in their homes. “Can host two people!” one sign read. “Big room [available],” read another. Asked why she offered such hospitality to strangers, one woman said my Saviour Jesus Christ once needed refuge, and she wanted to help others in such need. 

In Deuteronomy, God calls the Israelites to care for those far from their homelands. Why? Because He is the defender of the fatherless, the widow and the foreigner (Deuteronomy 10:18), and because the Israelites knew what such vulnerability felt like: “for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt” (v 19) Empathy was to motivate their care. 

But there is another side to this too. When the widow at Zarephath welcomed the foreigner Elijah into her home, she was the one blessed (1 Kings 17:9-24), just as Abraham was blessed by his three foreign visitors (Genesis 18:1-25). God often uses hospitality to bless the host, not just the guest. 

Welcoming strangers into your home is hard, but those German families may be the real beneficiaries. As we too respond to the vulnerable with God’s empathy, we may be surprised at the gifts He gives us through them. 

Prayer: Dear God, give me a heart as big as Yours for the widow, the fatherless, vulnerable and the stranger. In the name of Your Son, I ask. Amen.