Hope4Bath

Worry is an emotion that is common to us all. Indeed, almost the entire world’s population has been passing through a period of unprecedented high levels of anxiety. We might well ask, therefore whether there is an antidote to anxiety. The good news is that there is! Jesus said: ‘Therefore, I say to you, do not ….  Read More

‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends’. Many church and remembrance services yesterday have quoted these words and we will hear them again this week as we approach Remembrance Day on Wednesday. These words appear on many plaques and war memorials but who first wrote ….  Read More

11 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” 4 When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not ….  Read More

A young boy in a bustling city in the United States was just starting school and initially his mother walked with him for the few hundred yards to get there. Then she employed a teenage girl to accompany him to make sure he arrived safely and she paid her a nickel a day. After the ….  Read More

Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. 3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires ….  Read More

When watching a rugby game recently I noticed the substitute for a player who had to leave the game temporarily because of a bloodied injury, was called a ‘blood replacement’. An understandable name for the substitute. Isaiah the prophet spoke of One who was ‘wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for ….  Read More

An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked: there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, when he finds out his iniquity and when he hates. 3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has ceased to be wise and to do good. 4 He devises wickedness on his ….  Read More

Today in the USA, millions will make their choice of a new president. For months they have heard the candidates’ promises and boasts and now they decide, they choose. ‘You choose’ is what Joshua, a Bible leader, said to his nation centuries ago:  “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away ….  Read More

Christians many years ago were encouraged to pray for their nation and leaders: ‘Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our ….  Read More

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls ….  Read More