Hope4Bath

‘Do you not know that those who run in a RACE all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it’, 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 24. Next to the Olympian Games, the Isthmian Games, held at Corinth every three years, was the most prestigious athletic contest of ….  Read More

Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honour and majesty, 2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. 3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind, ….  Read More

I am writing this meditation on the last Saturday of July 2021, which marks the start of the athletic events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. My mind, therefore, has turned to the imagery from athletics used in the Bible to teach us lessons about the Christian life. We will consider three examples in our ….  Read More

33 But the multitudes saw them departing, and many knew Him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to Him. 34 And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. So He began to teach them ….  Read More

What A Friend We Have In Jesus Joseph Scriven (1819-1886) What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer! O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God ….  Read More

Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth ….  Read More

When I Survey The Wondrous Cross Isaac Watts (1674-1748) When I survey the wondrous cross, On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ my God; All the vain things ….  Read More

Focus Verse: ‘Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth’, Psalm 96 verse 1. The first occasion in the Bible, when we hear SINGING, is after the Lord had ‘saved Israel out of the hand of the Egyptians’, Exodus chapter 14 verses 28-30 The response of Moses and ….  Read More

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You. 2 Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; incline Your ear to me; in the day that I call, answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth. 4 My heart is stricken ….  Read More

A church in Bath (see the accompanying photo) has carved over its doorway, ‘Abide with us, for it is toward evening and the day is far spent’, Luke chapter 24 verse 29. These words were spoken by two people, who walked with Jesus on the day of His resurrection. They were disheartened, following His crucifixion ….  Read More