Hope4Bath

There is nothing more guaranteed to focus the mind on the future than the prospect of death. In the Bible, we discover that the apostle Paul took a journey to the Macedonian city of Philippi, Acts chapter 16 verses 11-34. He met much opposition there, so much so that he and Silas were thrown into ….  Read More

It is interesting how pithy statements often creep into our everyday language and assume an air of truth that they ought not to have. One such statement is, ‘It doesn’t matter what you BELIEVE as long as you are sincere’. Nothing could be further from the truth and to regard it as such is to ….  Read More

Many of us will have said, at some time, ‘I will BELIEVE it, when I see it!’ The disciples of Jesus SAW many amazing things as they followed Him for three years throughout Palestine, e.g. blind, deaf and lame people healed, lepers cleansed and the dead raised to life. They SAW these things and BELIEVED ….  Read More

‘O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! 2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which ….  Read More

Damien De Veuster left Belgium to minister the Gospel to the many lepers on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai. Over the course of twelve years he tried to talk with the people and show the love of God. The lepers seemed indifferent, even antagonistic to his efforts even though he poured all his energy into ….  Read More

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. 15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and ….  Read More

O Lord my God, in You I put my trust; save me from all those who persecute me; and deliver me, 2 Lest they tear me like a lion, rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3 O Lord my God, if I have done this: if there is iniquity in my hands, 4 If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace ….  Read More

When we think of LIGHT, our minds often go to the sun and the moon. Genesis teaches us that God created them, ‘to give light on the earth’, Genesis chapter 1 verse 15. It would be hard to imagine a place without them. However, the last book in the Bible, introduces us to such a ….  Read More

During the 1st century, the apostle Peter was imprisoned by Herod the king for his Christian faith. A remarkable thing happened to him one night, when he was sleeping and chained to two soldiers. An angel stood by him, a light shone in the darkness of his prison cell, his chains fell off and he ….  Read More

William Sydney Porter, the successful 20th century American short-story writer, who was an atheist, was heard to say on his deathbed, ‘TURN UP THE LIGHTS! I don’t want to go home in the dark’. He died at the age of 47 of chronic liver disease, brought on by years of heavy drinking. Sadly, his current ….  Read More