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19 Feb 2016
Weekly Passages: Exodus 25:1-27:19; 1 Kings 5:12-6:13; 2 Corinthians 9:1-15; Hebrews 9. This week's Torah portion is called Terumah meaning contribution, gift or freewill offering. It refers to designating something for a higher purpose, or lifting a part of a quantity from a larger quantity.1 The passage is called Terumah…
12 Feb 2016
Weekly Passages: Exodus 21:1-24:16; Jeremiah 34:8-34:22; 33:25-26; Matthew 5:38-42; 17:1-11. Jesus taught that the entire Torah hangs on two laws, to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love our neighbour as ourselves (Matt 22:37-40). These two laws are found in Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus…
12 Feb 2016
"This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God." (2 Cor 9:12) Friday 12 February 2016 Dear Praying Friend, Help us spread the word about Prophecy Today UK! As we plan…
05 Feb 2016
Weekly Passages: Exodus 18:1-20:26; Isaiah 6:1–7:6; 9:5-7; Matthew 5:8-20. What emotion does the thought of meeting with God bring to our hearts? Fear? Terror? Intrigue? Longing? Or 'How?' (at the impossibility of it)? This week's Torah portion reflects on this meeting, but turns the thought of its impossibility on its…
29 Jan 2016
Weekly readings: Exodus 13:17-17:16; Judges 4:4-5:31; John 6:15-71 Fresh from release from Egyptian captivity, the Israelites make their way into the desert, led by Moses and guided by the Lord's presence. Soon they are confronted with new threats to their existence: annihilation by the pursuing Egyptian army, death by thirst,…
21 Jan 2016
Weekly passages: Exodus 10:1-13:16; Jeremiah 46:13-46:28; Luke 22:7-30; 1 Corinthians 11:20-34 Many of us know very well the story of Passover and Jesus' fulfilment of it at the Cross. There is an easy and comfortable certainty to it because we view it through the lens of victory. God rescued his…
15 Jan 2016
Weekly passages: Exodus 6:2-9:35; Ezekiel 28:25-29:21; Romans 9:14-33 Just a few hours before his sacrificial death on the cross, Jesus shared the Passover meal with his disciples (Matt 26:17-30; Mark 14:17-26; Luke 22:14-38; John 13). As he shared the bread and wine he gave them a new meaning: "This is…
08 Jan 2016
Weekly readings: Exodus 1:1-6:1; Isa 27:6-28:13; 29:22-23; Acts 7:17-35; 1 Cor 14:18-25 Through these six chapters of Exodus we trace the astonishing journey of Moses from Hebrew baby in the bulrushes, discovered by Pharaoh's daughter and raised as her own son, to exile in a foreign land, to anointed leader…
