Hope4Bath

What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? 4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your ….  Read More

THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM was Bath’s first art museum. It opened to the public in 1893 and moved to its current Grade 1 listed building in 1916. It was once described as the most charming building in the UK. It holds a special place in my affections, as I have been a volunteer steward there for ….  Read More

Welcome to another week of meditations. You will, no doubt, appreciate from the name of the website that it comes to you from a group of Christians, who meet together to worship and serve God at Manvers Gospel Hall in the beautiful city of Bath, UK. It is a city that attracts approximately four million ….  Read More

Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast in God, 18 and know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge ….  Read More

A new country History has a habit of throwing up the bizarre and unusual such as the Republic of Cospaia which lasted for nearly 400 years as an independent state with only 300 inhabitants. There were two powers: the family of Medici who held a large area of north western Italy known as the Grand ….  Read More

 Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his ….  Read More

“Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed , and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to a man who is ONE HUNDRED years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”, Genesis chapter 17 verse 17. The immediate context of this verse is that God had promised ….  Read More

Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. 3 And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such ….  Read More

“No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die ONE HUNDRED years old, but the sinner being ONE HUNDRED years old shall be accursed” Isaiah chapter 65 verse 20. How different the world is today from the ….  Read More

The Hope4Bath website, overseen by Christians from Manvers Gospel Hall in Bath, UK, enters its 100th week of publication this week. We have experienced over 84,000 ‘hits’ from 81 countries during the past 21 months. It seems appropriate that our meditations this week should focus on three occasions in the Bible, when there is a ….  Read More