Hope4Bath

‘But we are ALL like an unclean thing, and ALL our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we ALL fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away’, Isaiah chapter 64 verse 6. This statement does not make for easy reading; indeed, there are no exceptions to the uncomfortable truth that ….  Read More

‘ALL we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us ALL’, Isaiah chapter 53 verse 6. In three of our meditations this week we will focus on matters that are common to us ALL. In today’s verse we ….  Read More

O God, You have cast us off; You have broken us down; You have been displeased; Oh, restore us again! 2 You have made the earth tremble; You have broken it; heal its breaches, for it is shaking. 3 You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink the wine of confusion. 4 You have given a ….  Read More

Love suffers long and is kind; Love does not envy; Love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; Love does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; Love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. After all ….  Read More

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John chapter 3 verses 16-17 Greater love has no ….  Read More

Reading John chapter 11 verses 1-44 Our third meditation takes us to Bethany, a small town in Israel. It is here that we discover a family of two sisters, Mary and Martha, and their brother, Lazarus. Sadly, this welcoming home is engulfed by grief. Lazarus had fallen sick and his sisters had sent for Jesus. ….  Read More

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; defend me from those who rise up against me. 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloodthirsty men. 3 For look, they lie in wait for my life; the mighty gather against me, not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord. 4 They run and prepare themselves through ….  Read More

Reading: Luke chapter 9 verses 28-31 In the New Testament we meet two important Old Testament characters, who had died and yet they were very much alive! ‘Now it came to pass about eight days after these sayings, that He (Jesus) took Peter, John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. As ….  Read More

Reading: Mark chapter 5 verses 22-24; 35-43 Over 1.5 million people in the UK have died from covid-19 and millions of others in the world are living with the fear of death hanging over them. Death is no respecter of persons – none of us is immune from either the prospect, or the reality, of ….  Read More

Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones? Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men? 2 No, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison ….  Read More